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ground to its ne plus ultra. Here the aid of science is invoked, 

 here is the necessity for an Agricultural College. 



I am, my dear sir, 



Yours , very respectfully, 



THOMAS ANTISELL. 

 To A. Chandler, ^c, ^c, 



American Institute^ JV, Y. 



TRIAL OF FIRE ENGINES. 



Troy, N. Y., Jan. 28th, 1851. 

 Gen. Chandler: 



Dear Sir — Enclosed I send to you a report made to the Execu- 

 tive Committee of the Kensselaer County Agricultural Society,, 

 by the committee appointed for the purpose of witnessing the 

 trial of fire engines at our late County Fair. I would ask for the 

 report an insertion in the next volume of the Transactions of the 

 American Institute. We think it to have been the finest effort 

 of the kind ever witnessed in this country, and that no other 

 engine ever came up to the effort of No. 13. The trumpet 

 awarded was a beautiful specimen of art. 



Yours, &e., 



JOHN FITCH, 

 Cor. Sec. Rens. Co. Jig. Society. 



REPORT. 



To the President and Executive Committee of the Rensselaer County 



Agricultural Society: 



Your committee on the trial of fire engines beg leave to report : 

 that there were nine engines entered for competition ; seven from 

 Troy, and three from Lansingburgh, as follows : 



Troy. Foremen. 



No 1, W. C. Dauchey. 



Washington Volunteers, J. H. Congdon. 



No. 7, Chas. Dummery. 



No. 8, Wm. Flack. 



