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but that attention may be called to the varieties for sale, and other 

 particulars, for the diffusion of correct information. It is their in- 

 tention to examine all available manures, and make them known 

 publicly, as well as the results of careful experiments in agricul- 

 ture, horticulture, and the management of stock, and to issue not 

 only information from time to time, but a series of Transactions, 

 embodying the particulars of their experiments, analyses, &c. 

 All those wishing to advance the cause of improvement are re- 

 spectfully solicited to become members, and forward suggestions 

 for the advancement of agriculture. Letters or communications 

 to be addressed, post-paid, to the Secretary of the Executive Com- 

 mittee, Dr. D. P. Gardner, 412 Fourth-street, New-York. By 

 order of the Executive Committee. 



R. L. Pell, Chairman. 

 March 12, 1845. 



THE ALPACA. 



Wf desire to direct the attention of our wealthy farmers to the 

 following extract, from the British Cultivator. It will be seen, 

 on its perusal, how much interest this animal is exciting in England 

 and Scotland ; and, may we not hope that an equal amount of in- 

 terest may be excited also in this country, especially in the state 

 of New-York. Probably there is no climate, nor any range of 

 country better fitted to the natural habits and wants of this ani- 

 mal, than the northern section of this state. Mountainous and 

 broken, as much of it is, and yet producing a great abundance of 

 the food which is adapted to the constitution of the Alpaca, and 

 at the same time furnishing a most ample extent of country which 

 is fitted only for grazing, it seems that a better combination of 

 circumstances does not exist where such an enterprize as the intro- 

 duction of this animal bids so fair for success. 



" For most of our cultivated plants, and, indeed, for many of 

 our domestic animals, we are indebted to other countries. With 

 regard to the former, the history of their introduction is, in many 

 cases, well established in detail ; but it is so long since the latest 

 of them — the potatoe, the turnip, or the mangel-wurzel, or carrot, 

 for instance — was first cultivated in our country, that farmers have 

 fairly settled down into the belief that they must make the best of 

 the subjects they have on hand, for that Nature has nothing fur- 

 ther in her stores suited, in our climate, for the wants of man or 

 beast. And with regard to the latter, the introduction of the very 

 latest dates so far back, that we must estimate the prejuilice as 

 stronger still, which scouts at the idea of any further addition being 

 made to our stock of domestic animals from the lists of other coun- 



