52 [Assembly 



for such valuable means of improving their stock. We would 

 call upon Americans generally to patronise domestic industry in 

 the encourage m'ent of manufactures of fine cloth, and as we have 

 evidence that the finest of wools can be raised here, and manu- 

 factured into the best of materials, is it not just that we, as Ame- 

 ricans, should wear them to the exclusion of foreign articles ? 



Your committee in dischargiijg their duty cannot fail to ex- 

 press the very high gratification they have experienced at the 

 excellence of the stock exhibited, and flatter themselves, that ere 

 long, both sheep raisers and manufacturers of fine cloth, will 

 alike meet their just awards from the hands of their fellow 



citizens. 



OBH. ELLIOT. 



CHAS. A. HULL. 



JOHN HAROLD. 



mw-York^ October 16, 1851. 



REPORT ON DR. BLiVKE'S LESSONS IN MODERN FARMING 

 OR ArxRlCULTURE FOR SCHOOLS. 



The committee to whom was referred the book entitled " Les- 

 sons in Modern Farming ; or Agriculture for Schools ; contain- 

 ing scientific exercises for recitation, &c., &c. By Rev. John L. 

 Blake, D. D., New-York. Mark H. Newman & Co. 1851." 

 Respectfully report : 



That this work is happily a series of quotations (for the most 

 part) from the j^est writers and speakers of modern times on Ag- 

 ricultural chemistry. Education, by Judge Euel. Implements, 

 Agriculture, &c., by Edward Everett, James Tufts, Henry Cole- 

 man. Agriculture of Maryland, by Willoughby Newton. Agri- 

 culture of France, Europe, civilization. Tlie American Farm- 

 er, by Josiah Qiiincy, Jr. Mrs. Hemans. Moral Dignity of 

 American Labor, by Rev. Dr. Tyng, Braynard, Holmes. Ver- 

 planck on the American Schoolmaster. On Animal and vegeta- 

 ble food. Bryant. Approved modes of Tillage. Animal Physi- 

 ology. Animal Manures. Trees, by Howitt. Agriculture, by 



