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ported. To those at a distance, who cannot look upon 

 you with their own eyes, your annual publications speak. 

 I have myself been both interested and instructed by the 

 former volumes of the Transactions of your Society, and 

 I have heard them, in a public meeting in Scotland, most 

 highly spoken of, and favorably contrasted with the pub- 

 lished proceedings, even of the Highland and Agricultural 

 Society of Scotland. It gives me pleasure to express my 

 opinion, that the volume for the present year is not only 

 equal to its predecessors, but contains matter highly credi- 

 table to the Society, and useful to the advancement of 

 scientific agriculture. 



Farther — The interest which, as individuals, you take 

 in the promotion of agriculture, by the acquisition and 

 application of new knowledge, may be gathered from two 

 circumstances — first^ from the establishment and liberal 

 endowment of chairs of science in connection with agri- 

 culture, by private parties, in two, at least, of your state 

 universities — a liberality at once most patriotic and most 

 judiciously applied; and second^ from the causes which 

 led to the recent visit to Europe of your countryman, 

 Mr. CoLMAN. Him we were led to look upon as a deputy 

 from the individual farmers of this and the adjoining 

 states, to the farmers and agricultural assemblies of Great 

 Britain — for it was your individual encouragement and 

 subscriptions, I believe, and those of your societies, which 

 induced and enabled him to come among us. As your 

 deputy, he was every where received — every where kindly, 

 I believe, as so kind hearted a man deserved to be — and 

 every where with a desire to give him the fullest infor- 

 mation on every subject that might be useful to you. 



Gentlemen, in the minds of some of your countrymen 

 whom I have met, not so I hope in yours, a wrong 



