INDEX. 



Officers and committees of the American Institute for the year, 



1848, '49, 3 



Report of the trustees, 7 



Receipts and expenditures, 9 



Report of the Managers of the 21st Annual Fair, 15 



Premiums awarded, 16, 38, 63 



Circular of the 21 st Annual Fair, 20 



Horticultural report of the 21st Annual Fair, 30 



Report of the committee on flower gardens, 51 



testing plows, 52 



the plowing match, 53 



the spading match, 55 



farms and gardens, 59 



Report of the judges on agricultural implements, 56 



Report on the Trenton Iron works, 60 



STATEMENT OF EXHIBITORS. 



Holbert's dairy, 123 



Thompson' s mode of making butter, 125 



Robinson's do do 126 



Helms' mode of keeping cows and making butter, 127 



Hyslop and Coffin's cheese dairy, ]27 



Austen's manner of making cheese, 128 



Osborn's method of making cheese, 128 



Robinson's method of raising wheat, 129 



Nesbitt's mode of raising oats and peas, 130 



Blakeslee's Devon cattle, 131 



Blakeslee's Spanish Merino sheep, 132 



Cheeseman's fat cattle, 135 



COMMUNICATIONS. 



Origin of fruit, by R. L. Pell, 137 



vegetables, by R. L. Pell, 144 



Remarks on manures by R. L. Colt, ' 154 



Turnips as food for cattle by J. Wilkinson, 155 



