PROCEEDINGS OF THE INSTITUTE. 



REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON AGRICULTURE OF THE 

 AMERICAN INSTITUTE. 



The Committee on Agriculture of the American Institute, in pur- 

 suance of the 49th section of the by-laws, beg leave respectfully 

 to report : 



Your committee, in accordance with the duties prescribed for 

 them, have actively carried out the purposes of the Institute 

 entrusted to their care. 



The great International Fair at Hamburg is not among the least 

 interesting events of the year, and from the able report made by 

 Austin Baldwin, Esq., we learn that the American Institute was 

 properly represented on that occasion. This report, which will be 

 read to you, places the fact of the superiority of American agri- 

 cultural machinery fairly on record. 



Your committee report with sorrow the loss of one of their most 

 efficient members, Edward Doughty, Esq., of iVewark, N, J., who 

 died on the 20th day of June last, after a long and useful life. 



The Farmers' Club of this Institute was the first of its kind in 

 this country, and ^its peculiar rules of order have been the model 

 of hundreds of similar societies. Your committee have been regu- 

 lar attendants upon this useful adjunct, and with the assistance of 

 man}' members of the Institute and others, have been able to ren- 

 der the meetings most interesting. Among the attendants are to 

 be found some of the most able pomologists of the countrj^ and 

 every novelty connected with the protective art has been, to a 

 greater or less extent discussed at these meetings. The sugges- 

 tions of scientific men and enthusiasts have met the chastening in- 

 fluence of practical and operative members. 



The number of letters of inquiry received by the Club, and re- 

 sponded to by committees, members, etc., has been large, and 

 generally have been written in consequence of the reports of the 

 €lub meetings published in the New York Tribune, whose agricul- 

 tural editor is alwaj^s in attendance, and supplies much of the mis- 

 cellaneous matter which occupies the deliberations of the Club. 



In addition to the discussions of miscellaneous matters, the fol- 

 lowing list of subjects have each occupied one or more meetings, 

 and elicited all the known facts in relation to them : 



