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braced in it, and consliluled the sole representative of that interest in 

 that association, for the city and county of New-York, and was made 

 the recipient of the bounty which in all other parts of the State was 

 apportioned exclusively to the county societies. The city of New- 

 York was preferred for holding this convention, because of its central 

 situation, and the facilities of reaching it by land and wnler, and the 

 time was designated during the great fair as most convenient and most 

 likely to ensure a full convention, when hundreds of thousands are 

 attracted to the great city, when specimens from the field and the gar- 

 den, of the highest perfection, from all parts of the country, are spread 

 before the visitors. 



The silk convention, which has been for two successive years held 

 separate, will this year be united with the farmers and gardeners con- 

 vention, and together they will constitute one convention, which will 

 open in the city of New- York, on Thursday, the 9lh day of October 

 next, at half-past 10 o'clock, A. M. 



It is designed to concert measures which will give a more effective 

 impulse to the efforts of agricultural improvement, by the collection 

 of numerous facts from various localities, and details of experiments, 

 thus affording materials for science to extend its discoveries ; this will 

 impart dignity to the occupation of the agriculturist, elevate it in the 

 comparative scale of human industry proportioned to its inestimable 

 importance. The powers of association, if judiciously brought in 

 aid, will work wonders. Local societies might be formed and kept in 

 continual communication with one great central society, concentrating 

 at one point an accumulation of facts and experience for selection, 

 arrangement, comparison, consideration, and publication, the value of 

 which would exceed all computation. Such an organization should 

 be commenced at this convention. The numerous associations re- 

 cently formed in various parts of the country, called " farmers clubs," 

 in conjunction with older societies for promoting agriculture, afford 

 the means for a beginning, and the -manifest advantages flowing from 

 them, will lead others to follow the example. Practical means for the 

 distribution of the best breeds of cattle, the new and best plants, 

 seeds, &c., farming implements, machines, &c., should be considered. 

 From the isolate,! condition and infrequency of communication and 

 intercourse among farmers, discoveries of vast benefit to the human 



