Reports of Committees. 7 



Brought forward $14,009 44 $30,352 06 



IS&w frame, portrait of ex-President Tall- 



madge 28 00 



Newspapers, advertising, postage, and inci- 

 dental expenses 697 45 



$14,Y34 89 



Invested in United States bonds 10, 612 50 



25,347 39 



Balance in bank January 31, 1869 $5 , 004 67 



THOMAS M. ADEIANCE, 

 THOMAS WILLIAMS, Jk., 

 CYRUS H. LOUTREL, 

 CHARLES CBCAMBERLAIK, 

 SIMEOK BALDWIN, 



Fi7iam>ce Committee. 



AGRICULTURE. 



In making this, our annual report, we have to say that our duties 

 have been confined to the transactions of the Farmer's Club, which 

 we have great satisfaction in stating, is extending its benefits and its 

 usefulness to nearly every State and Territory, and even its beneficial 

 influence is acknowledged in Europe by agriculturists, who have 

 highly complimented it. During the year the meetings of the club 

 have been crowded with an intelligent audience of those interested 

 in the subject of agriculture, fruit growing, inventors of agricultural 

 implements and manufacturers of newly invented and useful articles, 

 connected with this branch of industry. Many committees have been 

 appointed by the Farmer's Club, who have visited several places in 

 other States as well as places in this State, to examine and inquire 

 into the mode of culture, the product of crops under difierent modes 

 of cultivation, quality, quantity and expense of producing ; and also 

 to see the practical working of many newly invented agricultural 

 implements. These important duties have been discharged by the 

 committees, without incurring any expense to the American Institute. 



As an indication of the importance which is attached to the pro- 

 ceedings of the Farmer's Club by the public, we find nearly all of 



