6 [Assembly 



Expenditures. 



By disbursements, claims against the 17th Annual 



Fair, 1844, $30 00 



" balance claims, iSth Fair, 1845, 175 54 



" expenses 19th Fair, 1846, 9,860 14 



" " Repository and Library 4,343 34 



$14,409 02 



Balance on hand (of which $5,000 has been invested 

 in the stocks of the city of New-York at six per 

 cent interest,) - $9,249 22 



Although the means of promoting agriculture by the Institute have 

 been well adapted for the purpose, by Farmers' Clubs drawing prac- 

 tical truths and facts from men of experience and publishing them 

 to the world; bv enquiries made of numerous correspondents in va- 

 wous localities; by the distribution of seeds, plants, grafts and cut- 

 tings; by the prompt supply of the best publications in Europe and 

 America, in various languages, placing them in the reach of all; by 

 a daily exhibition of many of the machines and implements era- 

 ployed in agrioulljre and horticulture; by one great Annual Fair, 

 or Exhibition of all the improved instruments used either on the 

 farm, or in the garden; with the finest fruit, flowers, and vegetables, 

 culled from an immense area of country, many of them cultivated 

 with unwearied industry and care, stimulated by the promised pre- 

 mium; and by cattle shows and plowing and spading exhibitions; 

 still the Trustees are impressed that something essential after all, is 

 w'anting. And in their opinion nothing essential to the advance- 

 ment of this paramount interest should be withheld. The farming 

 interest embraces four-fifths of the whole people of the United States, 

 whose votes must determine the fate of our Republic; the security of 

 the lives, liberties, and property of the present generation and the 

 myriads that will succeed, depend on them. 



No effort therefore should be spared to raise the moral and intel- 

 lectual character of the farmer. Civilization and agriculture ad- 

 vance pari passu with improvements from the savage state to the 

 highest civilization. Agriculture civilizes and christianizes the sa- 

 vage. The minister of agriculture and commerce of France, says, 

 " able overseers and experimental cultivators must go forth and give 

 examples justified by experiments, conveying knowledge to all quar- 

 ters and reaching the youth." How shall agriculture, both an art 



