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4. Improvements in seeds for earliness and abundant yield. 



5. " in economical preparations and uses of food for 



man and beast. 



6. " in economical uses of fuel. 



7. " in economical application of human and brute labor. 



8. " in application of water, steam, or wind power to 



purposes of husbandry. 



9. " in cultivation — depth of ploughing; mixing of 

 soils; compost manures; manuring with green crops; inverting and 

 covering the sward ; drill culture ; sowing broad-cast ; management of 

 any particular crop, &lc. «S^c. 



10. Improvements in rotation of crops. 



11. " in uses of lime ; gypsum; bone-dust. 



12. " in application of ashes; crude or spent. 



13. " in application or discovery of other manures. 



14. " in construction of farm buildings. 

 XLII. Exports and Impoi-ts of agricultural produce. 



Capacity of the State to supply its own wants. General views. 

 XLIII. Spcciincns of Soil to he analyzed. 

 Models of improved implements. 

 Models of improved buildings. 

 Sketches of improved modes of draining lands. 

 Collection of valuable seeds or plants. 

 Samples of wool, silk, and sugar. 



I have thus, sir, laid before you the principal objects designed to be 

 embraced in an Agricultural Survey of the State. It is not of course 

 expected that every farmer, possibly not any single farmer, will be able 

 to give me information on every subject here enumerated ; nor will 

 any farm or any town in the Commonwealth furnish examples of all the 

 various crops, operations, and stocks here mentioned. But what is 

 wanting in one may doubtless be found in another ; and as no subject 

 is mentioned in which the agriculture of the State is not directly con- 

 cerned, it is hoped that much valuable and practical information may be 

 collected in regard to all. It will be my province to gather up the 

 fragments that nothing be lost. I earnestly solicit, therefore, your par- 

 ticular aid in acquiring this information ; and the communication of 

 your knowledge or experience, either by writing, conversation, advice, 

 or in any form in which you will please to give it. Any trouble which 

 any gentleman may take upon himself for the purpose of procuring in- 

 formation shall be always gratefully acknowledged. 



