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Art. II. Transactions of the Nero York State Agricultural 

 Society^ together with an abstract of the proceedings of 

 the County Agricultural Societies. Vols. II. and III. 8vo. 

 pp. 410 and 671. Albany. 1842 and 1843. 



The Transactions for 1842 have been a long time before 

 us, and the receipt of the new volume for 1843, has re- 

 minded us of our neglect in so long allowing it to remain 

 unnoticed. 



Vol. II. is mostly composed of essays on various subjects 

 for which premiums were offered by the Society ; the most 

 valuable of which is the Essay on the preparation and use 

 of manures, by the late Willis Gaylord. Other essays are 

 also very interesting, while some of them add very little to 

 the value of the report. 



Vol. III. contains another valuable paper on Insects inju- 

 rious to the field crops, orchards, gardens, &c, by Mr. Gay- 

 lord, and another on the cultivation of Madder, which is 

 now attracting the attention of agriculturists, by our cor- 

 respondent, M. B. Bateham. In addition to the usual 

 county reports, the remarks of Mr. Webster, Gov. Seward, 

 Mr. Van Buren and Mr. Granger, at the State Fair, are 

 reported, together with the addresses and remarks of sev- 

 eral gentlemen at the county fairs and cattle shows, and 

 the annual address by Mr. J. W. Knevels. 



New York feels the importance of cherishing her agri- 

 culture ; unlike our own State, she has appropriated liberal 

 sums to be distributed among each of the county societies, 

 and the resuJtof this liberal expenditure is beginning to be 

 felt in every part of the State. We commend the example 

 to the legislature of Massachusetts. May she not be behind 

 the Empire State in the great work of agricultural im- 

 provement. 



Art. III. Annual Report of the Commissioner of Patents 

 for the year 1843. 1 Vol. 8vo. pp. 522. Washington. 

 1844. 



We have been indebted to our representative in Congress, 

 the Hon. Mr. Winthrop, for the Report of Mr. Ellsworth, 

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