AGRICFLTURAL MUSEUM. S29 



Hichmond Agrlcidtural Socltiy. 



At a meeting of the Hichmond Society for promo^ 

 liog- Agriculture, held on ihc second instant : 



The corresponding Committee, who were required 

 hy a resolution of the last meeting, to make a report 

 specifying the jiarticular objects to which the attention 

 of the Society should be directed, and the best means of 

 obtaining information thereon, did, in conformity to the 

 said resolution, submit to the Society, a number of 

 queiies; which being read and considered, were, after 

 some amendments and additions, approved, and ordered 

 to be published. 



They arc now published, under a hope, that the per- 

 sons qualified to give information on any of the subjects 

 to which they relate, will consider themselves as indi- 

 vidually called on to communicate to the Society, for 

 H\e public benefit, the results of their observation an" 

 experience. 



The object of the society is to collect from every 

 quarter and to diffuse all the information which has a 

 tendency to promote the Agriculture of Virginia. 

 It is well known that there are in various parts of this 

 state, individuals distinguished for their industry, skill 

 and success, in the cultivation of the earth. Know- 

 ledge however can be imparted by oral communication 

 but to a i(^w ; and the beneficial influence of individual 

 practice, however judicious and profitable, must be ecu- 

 fined within very narrow limits — To remedy this evil, 

 the society proposes to collect all the practical Agricul- 

 tural knowledge of the country, and to convey it to the 

 public in the way which may be deemed most conducive 

 to the general wellare. In this undertaking they call 

 for, and confidently expect, the aid of all whose studies 

 and labors enable tbem to add to, or improve the public, 

 stock of Agricu!tni-a! information. 



CEOr^GE HAY, gec'ry. 

 AprilT, isn. 



