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9 American Agriculturist. 



5 United States Farmer. 



8 Culivators. 



4 Buel's Farmer's Companion. 



7 Transactions of tiie State Agricultural Society. 



4 Falkner's Farmers' Manual. 



3 Dana's Muck Manual. 



2 Smith's Productive Gardening. 



2 Florist's Guide. 



Kendrick's American Orchadist. 

 2 Planter's Guide. 



2 Farmer's Mine. 

 14 Reports of American Institute. 



1 Ewbank's Hydraulics. 



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The board of managers have spared no eflforts to render the Six- 

 teenth Annual Fair at least equal in interest and attraction to any 

 that have preceded it. The immense number of visitors who have 

 thronged the saloon during the whole protracted period of the exhi- 

 bition, atford the best evidence that their labors have not been fruit- 

 less. The receipts have been greater than at any of the Fairs of the 

 Institute, with one exception, during the last nine years j and larger 

 in proportion to the amount expended, and yielding more of profit 

 than any v/ithin that period. The articles for exhibition and com- 

 petition were more numerous than on any former occasion ; and the 

 increasing attention of our fellow-citizens to the advantages of this 

 method of making their manufactures, improvements or inventions 

 known, is shown by the constantly increasing number of exhibitors 

 at each succeeding Fair. At the Second Annual Fair in 1829, the 

 number of articles was estimated at 1,000 j those shown at this Six- 

 teenth Fair cannot, by the same method of computation, fall short 

 of 20,000 ; and it is our pride to add, of a quality so much improv- 

 ed, that they would scarcely be recognized as the products of the 

 same country. Should this progress continue, (as it assuredly 

 will,) in a very few years our present accommodations will be 

 altogether inadequate, as they are now quite insufScient to show with 

 much advantage or comfort the immense number of articles to such 

 crowds of visitors as have attended on this occasion. The new and 

 judicious arrangement of the exhibition adopted by the committee of 

 arrangements, tended much to the comfort of visitors; yet the want 

 of sufficient space for the proper disposition of the articles and for 

 the convenience of the spectators, was seriously felt and regretted 

 by the managers. The attention of the Institute cannot be too 

 earnestly directed to the immediate necessity of providing a suitable 

 building, with accommodations for holding our Fairs, upon a scale 

 calculated to keep pace with the increasing interest they are at- 

 tracting. 



