ELEVENTH ANNUAL REPORT 



OF THE TRUSTEES OF THE AMERICAN INSTITUTE. 



In compliance with the law passed May 5, 1841, the Trustees 

 of the American Institute present herewith a report of their pro- 

 ceedings for the year 1852, containing detailed statements of their 

 various exhibitions of useful farm stock, the agricultural produc- 

 tions of our State and the United States, of agricultural imple- 

 ments variously improved, and of the manufactures and mechanic 

 arts of our country, as illustrated at our 25th annual fair, held 

 in the city of New-York during the month of October last. 



In the departments above enumerated, there were specimens 

 presented from twenty-four States of the Union. In that of agri- 

 culture, we had specimens of Indian corn from fourteen States: 

 Potatoes from ten States : Wheat from nine States. Ohio pre- 

 sented specimens of apples, pears, cheese, wine, potatoes, corn 

 and wheat. 



The cattle show, which took place at Madison Cottage, on the 

 20tli, 21st and 22d days of October, was composed of stock from 

 various parts of the United States, comjirising, tliorough-bred 

 horses, horses for all work, and matched horses, in all number- 

 ing sixty animals. Of neat cattle, the native stock numbered 

 ten animals; crosses between improved and native stock, thirty- 

 two; Short horns, thirty-five ; Devons, sixty-six ; Ayrshires, six- 

 teen ; milking cows, nine; lat cattle, ten; working oxen, eight 

 y(>ke; fat sheep, seven; long wool sheep, forty-eight; middle 

 wool sheep, forty-six; merino sheep, thi'ty-one ; Saxony sheep, 

 seven; swine, eighty-three; Shetland mare-colt and stud, two; 

 jacks, three ; shepherd dogs, seventeen ; total -198 animals. In 



