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man of said committee, furnishing full and complete data 

 upon which to base a report. 



The report of the committee was received and the resolu 

 tions adopted. 



Mr. Fontaine, of Georgia, submitted a preamble and 

 resolution on the subject of fertilizing. The preamble re 

 cited that the annual outlay for fertilizing is $25,000,000. 

 It was, therefore, recommended that each county society 

 represented in this Congress, or hereafter to be admitted, 

 should, through its secretary, forward to the Secretary of the 

 Congress approximate statements giving the amount of fertil 

 izers used, their money value, kinds used, and cost of 

 transportation, with the distance transported. 



The following resolution was offered and adopted : 



Resolved, That the Congress of the United States, which 

 has heretofore so liberally protected the manufacturing 

 interests of the country, be memorialized to aid the Agri 

 culture of the United States by admitting, free of duty, the 

 following chemicals which we think contain all the great 

 essentials of plant food, to the end that the manufacture of 

 fertilizers be cheapened and agricultural interest proportion- 

 ably benefited : nitrate of potash, nitrate of soda, salt, gypsum, 

 sulphate of ammonia, German salts of potash, or potash in 

 any form, and sulphuric acid. 



Gen. Jackson read a series of resolutions, reported from 

 the committee to whom Com. Maury s address was referred. 

 The resolutions appealed to every agricultural or mechanical 

 society, club, and association, in behalf of the movement, 

 soliciting their co-operation by memorials to Congress, and 

 otherwise. Further, they looked to the raising of a com 

 mittee of one from each State of the Union to exert itself 

 in favor of Com. Maury s plan. They requested all journals 

 to note the proceedings and give them their sanction. The 

 resolutions were adopted. 



