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AGRICULTURE. 



The Committee on Agriculture respectfully report, that their 

 duties for the year have been confined to the Farmers' Club, which, 

 we are enabled to say, is doing a great work, and every year its influ- 

 ence is extended, and its good influence is felt and acknowledged 

 throughout the land. Its meetings each week are attended by full 

 audiences, many from remote points, and thousands of inquiries by 

 letter on agricultural subjects have been received and responded to. 

 Many valuable papers have been read before the Club by distinguished 

 gentlemen, which have been of great interest and much benefit to all 

 engaged in agriculture. Your committee feel it their duty to acknow- 

 ledge, in this report, the obligations they are under to Professor 

 George II. Cook, geologist of the State of New Jersey, Dr. J. Y. 

 C. Smith, II. L. Reade, of Jewett City, Conn., Professor Phin, and 

 others, for their gratuitous services in this particular. 



As heretofore, committees from the Club have visited many places 

 both near and far off, collecting information, and testing in the field 

 agricultural implements, attending agricultural fairs, and, in this and 

 other States, ascertaining the results of different kinds of culture, as 

 regards all crops, fruits and vegetables, promulgating, through the 

 Club, the results of their observation, and, as heretofore, the Institute 

 has not paid one dollar for services or expenses of these committees, it 

 being a " labor of love." 



To Rev. Samuel Griswold, of Old Saybrook, Conn., a debt of 

 gratitude and thanks is due for over six thousand papers of flower 

 seeds, which have been sent out to gladden the hearts and beautify 

 the homes of thousands. 



The press is largely represented at each meeting of the Club, and 

 publish each week the proceedings, which go broadcast throughout 

 the land to the great benefit of millions of readers, and from whom 

 the Club receive thousands of letters of acknowledgement. 

 All of which is respectfully submitted. 



NATHAN C. ELY, 

 F. M. HEXAMER, 

 P. T. QUINN, 

 JOHN CRANE, 

 JOSIAH H. MACY. 



