TENTH ANNUAL REPORT 



OF THE TRUSTEES OF THE AMERICAN INSTITUTE, 



In conformity to the law passed May 5, 1841, the Trustees of 

 the American Institute present herewith a report of their pro- 

 ceedings in the department of agriculture for the year 1851, con- 

 taining detailed statements of their exhibitions of pure breed and 

 other useful farm stock, and of the agricultural productions of 

 our country, as presented at their late 24th annual fair, held at 

 Castle Garden, in the city of iVew-York. 



We did not anticipate at our annual Fair for 1851, a very ex- 

 tensive display of the products of agriculture, owing to the oe- 

 currence of circumstances, during a large portion of the season, 

 unfavorable to tillage ; particularly in that region of country 

 from which the materials composing our exhibitions are mainly 

 derived. We have been, however, very agreeably disappointed. 

 The exhibition in all the departments of agriculture, horticulture, 

 pomology, and floriculture, was very full, presenting specimens 

 of superior quality, in some respects, to those of former years. 

 The cereals, and the various modes of preparing them for tlie 

 purposes of food and transh.ipment, are marked with impiove- 

 ment, as the various details to be found in the fjUowing pages 

 will more fully explain. 



The display of agricultural Implements was very completcj 

 among them we would particulary notice as new and deserving 

 attention, the flax and hemp breaking and dressing machine of 

 S. 0. Clemens, of Springfield, Mass.; the grain drill of li. J. Gat- 

 ling, of Indianapolis, Ind.; the Self-sharpening straw and brush 

 cutter of Reuben Daniels, Woodstock, Vt. 



