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If you need more blanks at any time write for them. You will find postage 

 stamps and envelopes for your correspondence and returns enclosed. 



We shall want your reuurns, and we presume you can make them, by the 1st 

 or 15th of September. By order of the Board. 



Very respectfully your obedient servant, 



I. N. HOAG, Secretary State Board of Agriculture. 



TO THE I'EOI^LE OF <O.A.X^XFOT11STXJ>^. 



The State Agricultural Society, by the organization of a corps of eminent 

 scientific gentlemen, is now prepared to take the lead and give aim and direc- 

 tion to the development of all the various resources of the State, by the ex- 

 perimental and scientific investigation of every subject pertaining to the 

 agricultural, manufacturing and mining interests. 



Also, to contribute in an authentic and official manner, to every branch of 

 the natural history of the State, by the collection, classification and preser- 

 vation of facts and phenomena in the meteorological world, and of specimens 

 from our geological, botanical and animal kingdoms. 



By enlisting the co-operation of the county and district assessors of the 

 State — the assessors of internal revenue, and business men generally, it is 

 proposed to collect and preserve a full and complete record of the productions 

 of all our industrial pursuits. 



Our Chemist and Metallurgist, Dr. R. Oxland, Professor of chemistry in the 

 Toland Medical College at San Francisco, is prepared to make correct assays 

 of the different metals, as gold, silver, copper, iron, tin, etc. Also, to analyse 

 difter<^nt kinds of manures and soils, and petroleum, asphaltum, bituinen, etc. 

 He has had a large experience in the manufacture of sugar from beets, and 

 refining the same, and in agricultural and manufacturing chemistry generally, 

 and is prepared to give instruction in all these departments. For any work 

 done in any branch of his department, members of the Society will be allowed 

 twenty per. cent discount from the usual prices. 



Dr. Kellogg and Prof. Borlander will analyse and classify any specimens of 

 vegetable productions forwarded to them. Prof Borlander has given much 

 time to the study of the grasses, and Dr. Kellogg to the floral department of 

 Botany. 



Dr. Behr may be consulted upon the insects, and Dr. Cooper upon the ani- 

 mals, birds and reptiles of the State — both having given these specialties 

 much time and attention, are prepared to give correct information. 



Dr. Logan will investigate any atmospherical phenomena, or climatic changes, 

 to which his attention is called. Records and observations heretofore 

 pulilished by him testify the soundness pf his knowledge. 



The above gentlemen have all been consulted personally by the Secretary, 

 and have each accepted the position to which he has been appointed. 



Prof. Whitney is not in the State, but his friends give assurance that he 

 will accept the position, and give his eminent abilities to the success of the 

 enterprise. 



Committees in all the departments of agriculture will be appointed as soon 

 as the right men can be secured. A premium list for the Fair of 18G5, em- 

 bracing every industry in the State, will be published as soon as it can be 

 completed. 



The Board call upon the people and the press of every county in the State, 

 for their earnest a,nd practical co-operation and support — and they doubt not 

 they will receive it. Geological, metallurgical, botanical, zoological, and en- 

 tomological specimens, and curiosities of every kind, are solicited for the cab- 

 inet and museum, and may be forwarded to the Secretary through Wells, Far- 

 go & Co.'s Express, free of charge. By Order. I. N. HOAG, Secretary. 



