IV 



To encourage the utmoft attention to thcfe obje6ls, 

 the Society will, from time to time, offer fuch premiums 

 as their funds will admit. They confider agriculture in 

 its various branches and connexions as highly interefling 

 to all mankind. The wealth and importance of the 

 community, is fo intimately conne6led with, and de- 

 pendent on the extent and fuccefs of agriculture, that 

 every one who is defirous of advancing the happinefs, 

 profperity, and dignity of his country, its commerce, and 

 convenient fubfiftance of individuals, will lend his aid 

 to this mofl; ufeful infhitut ion^ 



The members of this Society have no other intercft, 

 than the benefit of the human fpecies at large. They 

 confider themfclves members in common, of the great 

 family, and expcdl no other advantage than the fatisfac- 

 tion of being beneficial to themfelves, with the refi; of 

 the community. 



They therefore, in eonfequence of the charge they 

 have taken on themfelves, call in the mod earnell 

 manner, on every pra6tical farmer, to fend to either of 

 the Secretaries in Bofton, all the information which he 

 poflelfes on any fubjeft connefted with agriculture. 

 The Society wifh to obtain the modes of pra6lice in 

 different parts of this country, but particularly of this 

 ilate, that they may publifh the fame ; that one part 

 may be benefited by the improvements of the other. 

 There are many perfons»in every community, who make 

 improvements that perifh with the poirefTor, merely for 

 want of fome place where they may be perpetuated. 

 The Society will feel obliged to every perfon for their 

 attention and communications, even if they poffefs 

 nothing more than is generally underftood. Ev- 

 ery correfpondent has a right to withhold his name, but 

 if the names fhould appear, which the Society would 

 prefer, and the communications contain nothing ex- 



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