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experiments. Its uses in preventing ruinous sacrifices by pointing to 

 tried means of culture, and the causes of failure or success, which the 

 detailed experiments make clear, enhances its value to a country 

 comparatively young in the undertaking, more especially as the 

 whole success and profits of the business, depend upon an exact knowl- 

 edge and delicate management in every movement from the hatching 

 of the worm to the reeled silk. Exact knowledge, united withunre- 

 miUing care, are absolutely requisite, or the result will be disap- 

 pointment and loss. The least mistake may prove fatal to the tender 

 insect and blast expectation, and the want of a proper reel, or what 

 might seem a very little deficiency of skill, may render the thread 

 almost valueless. It is stated that from this circumstance alone, 

 (imperfect reeling) the Bengal silk is worth only about one-half the 

 Italian. 



The managers recommend the following expedient in relation to 

 bank locks, which excited much interest, and still continue to do so. 



It is believed that the regulations now proposed, cannot, with rea- 

 son, be objected to by any of the competitors. 



The Institute shall appoint three of its members, to take the espe- 

 cial charge of all locks left at the Repository, for test or competition; 

 each of which must be accompanied with the name and residence of 

 the manufacturer or inventor, and an agent appointed to explain its 

 construction, &c., if necessary; each lock to be fitted to a box, of 

 convenient portable size, and when left with the committee they are 

 to notify the other competitors. 



When any respectable and responsible persons present themselves 

 for the purpose of experimenting upon any of the locks, the com- 

 mittee shall take security to make good any damage or injury, they 

 may occasion. When the operator has sufficiently examined the 

 locks, the committee shall place the box in a private room, lock it, 

 and take charge of the keys. 



A register shall be kept of the names of the operators, and the 

 number of hours employed by each, a report of which shall be pub- 

 lished in the report of each annual Fair, and the competitor sliall be 

 entitled to a certificate setting forth all the particulars and the results. 



They also recommend, that the report of the premium committee 

 hereafter be submitted to the board of n^anagers, at least two days 

 prior to the close of the Fair. 



From the report of the premium committee, it wnll be seen that a 

 large proportion of premiums have been awarded to articles exhibited 

 in the agricultural department of the Fair. The great variety of 

 fine specimens of agricultural and horticultural products, and the 

 choice quality of the stock, &c., (although not so numerous as in 

 some previous years,) fully merited all the bounties that have been 

 awarded. This liberal distribution of rewards in this department, is 

 not only justified, but demanded by the bounty extended to us by 

 the State, which, we trust, will be met by the Institute with increased 

 exertions, and a liberal expenditure to increase the interest alrea(!y 

 awakened to the agricultural department, and to arouse a proper spirit, 

 proportioned to the magnitude of the subject, and which shall bring 



