302 Third Annual Report 



REVIEWS. 



Art. I. Third Annual Report of the American Institute, 

 on the subject of Agriculture, to the Legislature of New 

 York. 1 Vol. 8vo. pp. 343. New York. 1844. 



The report of the Institute, the publication of which, for 

 some time, has been looked for, has made its appearance, and 

 contains its whole proceedings for the year, up to April, 

 1844. It embodies a mass of information on various agri- 

 cultural subjects, particularly on silk, to which upwards of 

 one hundred and fifty pages are devoted, comprising the 

 greatest amount of information respecting the actual condi- 

 tion of the silk manufacture in this country, ever published. 

 We only wish the statements and facts presented could 

 reach every intelligent farmer in the United States. 



In the prefatory remarks to the report, which is made, 

 a Senate document, according to a law of the State, it is 

 stated, that about 240,000 visiters attended the 16th Annual 

 Fair, and that the number of articles exhibited was 20,000; 

 twenty times greater than in 1828. During the sixteen 

 years, 674 premiums have been awarded in gold and silver 

 medals, books and diplomas. 



Mr. Teschemacher's excellent address before the Insti- 

 tute forms part of the report, and will be read with interest 

 by every lover of agricultural improvement. We have 

 already, in anticipation of its appearance, given his remarks 

 on guano (p. 232), which forms the principal subject of the 

 discourse : other portions of it are interesting, but we can 

 only find room for his remarks on the benefits derived from 

 agricultural meetings : — 



" If there is any man who stands high in the estimation of his fellow 

 men, may I add with great reverence in that of his Creator, it is the intel- 

 ligent, the liberal cultivator of the land ; it is he, who not only anxious to 

 till his own soil well, is also ready to communicate his experience and 

 knowledge to others ; it is he who is not only delighted with the luxuri- 

 ance of his own crops, but who smiles with pleasure and complacency on 

 the successful efforts of his neighbor ; it is he, who, far from feeling dis- 

 appointment in the superior success of a fellow laborer, is alwaj's anxious 

 to learn, to improve, and to exert his utmost intelligence in exciting the 

 progress of the important pursuit of his life. Sucli are the men who 



