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likewise finds employ in apportioning these raw products, and also 

 fabrications made from them suited to the demands of the consnmers. 

 The increasing fabrications of the manufacturer and artisan necessa- 

 rily create a proportionate (demand for the productions of the agri- 

 culturistj and stimulate him to increase them, and the augmented 

 commodities of the whole increase the business of commerce by sup- 

 plying the materials for exchange and distribution in exact propor- 

 tion as they are augmented. The encouragement given to manufac- 

 tures and the arts are therefore rlecidedly subservient to agiiculturec 

 In this view the whole expenditures of the Institute may be said to 

 be directly or indirectly for the benefit of agriculture. 



The appropriation to this Institute under the law of the State, is 

 $950 per annum, on condition an equal sum is raised and applied to 

 the encouragement of agriculture, &c. The accounts in the appended 

 papers show that within the last year there has been expended 

 $10,070.46 — more than ten times the amount required by the act 

 making the appropriation ; every dollar of which, excepting the Stale 

 bounty, were the voluntary contributions of our fellow-citizens. 



These facts are referred to as evidence of the strength of the hold 

 of this Institute on public confidence, and the favor in which its ope- 

 rations are held in the estimation of the public, and above all with 

 the hope that they will command your approbation ; as those who 

 have labored to sustain this Institute feel it is deserved. The favor and 

 confidence thus manifested towards this Institute are deemed most 

 interesting indications of the state of public feeling towards im- 

 provememt, and particularly in agriculture, which seems to have re- 

 ceived a new and powerful impulse within the last few years, from 

 associations formed and forming, and from the multiplication of agri- 

 cultural publications, and particularly periodicals. The old modes 

 of farming handed down from father to son, (many till lately incre- 

 dulous,) now begin to believe are insufficient to cope with modern 

 science, skill and competition. 



The reports of committees and judges, &c., with other papers hereto 

 annexed, will give a partial view of the agency of this Institute, and 

 the means employed to give additional impetus to the advancing im- 

 provements of the age, and enable our country to avail itself of 

 their earliest benefits. 



