374 BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. [Jan. 



been given to the public through the medium of its reports ; 

 it was instrumental in the formation of the State Experiment 

 Station ; it has published thirty-seven annual volumes, con- 

 taining 23,000 pages of matter pertaining to agriculture and 

 kindred pursuits, and embracing in all an issue of 375,000 

 copies, which have gone out not only to the people of our 

 own Commonwealth, but may be found in almost all of the 

 civilized countries of the globe. 



