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Committees. 



On the establishment of Colleges and, Schools in the States of the 

 Union, for teaching both the science and the practice of rural econ- 

 omy, in the most thorough and skilful manner — Messrs. J. S. Skin- 

 ner, Clark and Meigs. 



On Cattle, Sheep, ^c, — Messrs. Fleischmann, Hall, WickofF and 

 Randall, with power to add to their number as there may be need. 



On Linen Manufactures, Messrs. Tallmadge, WickofF and Havens. 



On Silk culture and Management — H. C. Mather of L. I., J. S. 

 Pierce, Vt., A. C Van Epps, sew- York. 



On investigating the Potato disease. — Messrs. Van Wyck, Prof. 

 Chilton, J. S. Skinner, R. L. Colt, R. L. Pell, John Travers, David 

 Grant (Pres. Hartford county, Ct., Ag. Soc.,) and A. C. Van Epps. 



On Industrial Protection, and internal improvement. — Messrs. 

 George Bacon, A. Chandler, Edwin Williams, Erastus Ellsworth and 

 Lorenzo Bull. 



On memorializing congress, and conferring with the government 

 as to the establishment at the seat of government, of a national de- 

 PARTMKNT OF AGRICULTURE, Conformably to the often-expressed wish 

 of Gen. Washington. Messrs. D. Lee, J. S. Skinner, and B. P. 

 Johnson; with power to add to their number. 



Publication Coinmittee. - -Messvs. Wakeman arid Meigs, with power 

 to add, to confer with the committee, and co-operate with the sec- 

 retaries. 



Mr. Lewis of Ohio, having suggested that it would be a good 

 plan to offer a premium fcr the best essay on any one of the sub- 

 jects before the convention. 



The chairman Col. Travers, ofTered a personal premium of $25 for 

 the best essay on the third subject. The condition of the linen man- 

 ufactures of the nation; what has caused them to languish, and what 

 is necessary to make this branch of industy prosper. 



At the close of this day's session. Judge Van Wyck made a few 

 observations in regard to the gases of brick-kilns; he disagreed with 

 those who had preceded him, and thought the injury arose from the 

 heat; he knew that for a great many years brick-kilns had been 

 burned continually, in certain localities with which he was fully ac- 

 quainted, and he had never heard until very lately, that those kilns 

 injured vegetation; except, in so far as that vegetation was so near 

 the kilns, that the intensity of the heat caused an absorption of mois- 

 ture from the plants; he wished to have the subject fully examined, 



