^0. 124.] 3 



The position of this Institute is most propitious for the purpose ; 

 located in our great commercial emporium, in the midst of more than 

 three hundred thousand inhabitants, and estimated to have within 

 her limits twenty thousand strangei^ continually in constant commu- 

 nication by means of oceans, seas, rivers, canals and railroads, with all 

 parts of the world ; its opportunities and facilities for receiving and 

 diffusing knowledge, and accomplishing the benevolent objects of its 

 ■charter, is, and must remain ihrnugh a long period, unsurpassed. Under 

 these influences its transactions iiave been muliipiied, diversified and 

 €xtended, far beyond the anticipations of the most sanguine of its 

 early friends.; so that a brief summary of its doings even for a single 

 Tear, would in all probability be too voluminous for a legislative 

 document. Accordingly only a small number, probably not one in 

 fifly of the most practical papers, have, from among a mass of records, 

 been copied and placed together under distinct general heads, which 

 will be submitted with a I'eiv comments. 



There will be found under the general head of Reports or Com- 

 mittees OF Judges, marked B., separate and distinct reports fiom 

 committees on 



Horses, jacks and mules^ 



Sheep; 



Horticulture", 



Vegetables; 



Pears; 



Dr. R. T. Underhill's vineyard at Croton Point, N. Y.; 



H. Steele's early Isabella grape vines, at Jersey City, N. J.; 



Ploughing exhibition, at Paterson, N. J.; 



Agricultural implements: 



India rubber goods; 



Mrs. B. R. Yoorhees' household manufactures; 



The great wrought iron gun for U. S. steamer Princeton; 



Hamilton's mill for sawing curved timber; 



Campbell's self-feeding apparatus for steam-boilers, and 



Andrews' elevating water-wheel. 



A correct List of Premium Articles of the 16th An^ua^Fair, will 

 be found marked C, and the premiums awarded to each are noted. 

 As they were selected by competent judges from about 20,000 arti- 

 cles, contributed by the various departments of industry, art and inven- 



