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INTKODUCTORY. 



instructive books and periodicals, instead of cash 

 premiums ? 



Would it not also be well to encourage a greater and 

 more active interest in the Exhibitions, on the part of 

 minors, by adopting some method which would tend to 

 induce them to give their attention early to the rearing 

 of poultry, lambs, calves, &c., the training of steers? 

 plowing, the cultivation of vegetables, the smaller fruits^ 

 &c., thus creating a love for rural occupations, which 

 may grow with their growth and strengthen with their 

 strength, and enable them to develope in the healthiest 

 and best manner their powers of both mind and body, 

 to be hereafter exercised in promoting the objects of 

 the society and the cause of Agriculture generally ? 



Less attention has been paid to the distribution of 

 seeds than formerly, and yet nearly one hundred small 

 packages of choice varieties have been distributed. 

 Eleven new members have joined the Society during 

 the year, making the total number who have joined up 

 to the present time, five hundred and thirty-five. 





