The ]5iinci[)al objects of his inquiries have been, — 



I. The Crops ; their aiDouiit and uses ; the modes of cuhiva- 

 lion ; the cost of production ; their positive and comparative value. 



II. TheLivk Stociv : their kinds ; the cost of keeping, modes 

 of being kept ; yield or produce ; the improvements made in them ; 

 and the comparative advantages of different kinds or breeds. 



III. Comparative AND MIXED Husbandry. The Dairy ;Wool; 

 Vegetable Crops ; Grain Crops ; the selling of Hay ; Grazing and 

 raising Neat Cattle ; Fattening of Beef, Pork, and Mutton ; Raising 

 of Lambs for market ; Silk ; Beet Sugar ; Teasles ; Broom Corn. 

 . IV. Implements. Ploughs, Harrows, Threshing Machines, 

 Drill barrows for planting. Cultivators, &c. 



V. Manures. Green Crops ploughed in. Use of Barn manure, 

 Lime, Gypsum, Marls, Fish, Seaweeds, Shells, Clay. 



VI. Growth of Wood. Value of land for wood. Kinds of 

 wood grown, and relative profits. Hedges. Peat. Charcoal. 



VII. Weeds pernicious to Agriculture. 

 Vm. Bees. 



IX. Improvements in reclaiming salt meadow; in managing 

 salt meadow ; in reclaiming fresh meadow ; in cultivation. 



These are not enumerated as the only subjects of inquiry ; but as 

 subjects of inquiry on which he has obtained in those parts of the 

 state where he has been, practical information, ihe result of experi- 

 ence, which will be valuable ; and which he designs to imbody in 

 his report. 



Of Mixed Husbandry, he has the pleasure to state to the Com- 

 mittee, that he has received several reports, which he will submit to 

 the public. 



Any person familiar with our farn)ing population will in some 

 degree appreciate the difficulties in the way of obtaining in an authen- 

 tic form the information which he has sought. 



He designs no improper reflection. Some will overstate ; some 

 understate. Some will not state at all. Some through indiffer- 

 ence or carelessness keep no accounts of their farming operations. 

 Some through diffidence are unwilling to tell their experience. 

 Many persons were utterly ignorant of the objects of the survey, 

 and naturally regarded with a degree of suspicion or caution an 



