DOCUMENTS 



Accompanying the Third Annual Report of the Trustees of the 

 American Institute, of the city of JVew- York. 



A. Trustees, Managers of the Sixteenth Annual Fair, and Beard of 



Agriculture. 



B. Reports of Committees. — Report of Judges on Horses, Sheep, 



Horticulture, Vegetables, Pears, Underbill's Vineyard, Steele's 

 Grapes, Ploughing Exhibition, Agricultural Implements, In- 

 dia Rubber Goods, Mrs. Voorhees' Household Manufactures, 

 Wrought Iron Gun, Hamilton's Saw-Mill, Campbell's Self- 

 feeding Apparatus, Andrews' Elevating Water-wheel. 



C. List of Premiums awarded at the Sixteenth Fair. 



D. Communications from Contributors. — R. L. Pell's Fruit Farm, 



Walker's Pears, Maxwell's Farm, Carter on the Care of Cows, 

 Milking qualities cf American Cows, management, feeding, &c., 

 by Gouverneur Morris, Wyckoff's Cabbage crop, Pell's mode of 

 raising Rye, Sugar Beets, Egg Plants, Sweet Potatoes and Culi- 

 nary Vegetables, Effects of Poudrette on Indian Corn, Lima 

 Squash, Beets and Parsnips, Mauran's aged Horse, Johnson's 

 Process of making Butter, Smith's Process of making Cheese, 

 Davenport's mode of making Pine Apple Cheese, Hawley's 

 method of making Cheese, Smith's method of making Cheese. 



E. Farmers^ Club. — Proceedings of two Meetings; B. G. Boswell 



on the Cultivation of Fruit, also on seedling Fruit Trees; Pou- 

 drette as a Fertilizer, by D. K. Minor; Effects of Poudrette on 

 Indian Corn, by Anthony Dey ; Remarks on Pruning, by D. Jay 

 Browne. 



F. Conversational Meetings, 



G. Report of the Board of Managers of the Sixteenth Annual Fair. 



H. Agricultural Address, delivered before the American Institute, by 

 J. E, Tescheraacher, Esq., of Massachusetts. 



1. Report of the Proceedings of the National Convention of Silk 

 Growers and Manufacturers, held in New-York, October I3th 

 and 14th, 1843. 



