14 I Assembly 



298 Silver Medals. 

 450 Diplomas. 

 $120.50 Cash to apprentices and minors. 

 '' 25.00 Awarded for team of oxen, $25 Knapp Premium. 



130 Volumes of books on Agriculture, Horticulture &c. 

 The total cost of which, is, $3,689.83 



Among the subjects which have occupied the attention of the In- 

 stitute, Agriculture and Horticulture have during the past, as in previ- 

 ous years, held the most prominent place. The regular meetings of 

 the Farmers' Club, have been increasing in interest and continued 

 with energy. The Plowing and Spading exhibition at White Plains 

 was well attended. The attendance at the Cattle Show on the 11th 

 and 12th of October, evinced the increasing interest which breeders 

 feel in learning when and by what jneans their stock of horses, horned 

 cattle, sheep, and other domestic animals may be improved. 



While speaking of this part of our labors, we beg leave to state to 

 the Legislature that each succeeding year has added strength to our 

 opinion of the importance of an agricultural school and experimental 

 farm for the purpose of extending earlier and more widely the bene- 

 fits which science and mechanical skill are destined to confer upon the 

 tillers of the soil. We forbear to repeat the arguments heretofore 

 urged in favor of establishing and endowing such an institution, or 

 the substantial reasons which have been adduced in favor of its being 

 fixed in the neighborhood of the city of New-York. These are fully 

 set forth in our last report, to which we beg leave to refer. 



For the purpose of showing more in detail the operations of the 

 Institute, in relation to the various departments of domestic industry 

 to which it is devoted, we annex the report of the Managers of the 

 Twenty-first Annual Fair, sundry reports by committees of the Far- 

 mers' Club, and special committees appointed by the Institute, togeth- 

 er with some extracts and translations of articles from foreign works 

 elating to subjects of general interest, or calculated to diffuse useful] 

 information on some of the great branches of American Industry. 

 Respectfully submitted, by order of the trustees. 

 JAMES TALLMADGE, President. 



H. Meigs, Rec. Sec'y. 



J^ew-York, March 23, 1849. 



