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Meeting of Ex. Com., JT. Y. S. Jig. Soc. 
MEETING OF EXECUTIVE COMMITTER, NEVV YORK STATE 
AGRICULTUHAL SOCIETY. 
Present — Lewis F. Allen. President; A. Van Bercen, A. Stevens, T. C. 
Peters, Luther Tucker, J. JVIcD. Mclnlyre, B P. Johnson. 
Letters received from Prof. J. P. Norton, Yale College; T. C. 
Peters; L.F. Allen, President; Chas. McLean, Secretary of Otse- 
go County Society — (fair to be held at Cooperstown,28th and 29th 
September); J. Delafield, President of Seneca Agricultural Soci- 
ety — (fair to be held at Seneca Falls on 5th and 6th October); 
r. Follett; A. O.Spencer; A. K. Maynard, Secretary of Che- 
nango Agricultural Society; W. C. Watson, Port Kent; Jas. B. 
Todd, President of Genesee Agricultural Society; G. W. Pratt; 
John A. King, Vice President, expressing his regret at being pre- 
vented from attendance at this meeting; A. S. Roberts, President 
of Philadelphia Agricultural Society; Aaron H. Palmer, Esq., 
Corresponding Member of the National Listitute, Washington; 
H. L. Day; Gen. J. T. Blanchard; Henry Watson, Esq., of 
Alabama, in answer to a letter addressed to his father, the late 
Henry Watson, Esq., of East Winsdor, Conn., a distinguished 
friend of agriculture. 
Received from Dr. J. M. Ward, cions, Bartlett, Winter Nelis 
Van Mons Leon Le Clerc Pears. 
From C. N. Bement, cions of German and Sweet Gilliflower 
Apples. These have been distributed. 
From W. C. Watson, Esq., Port Kent, Essex county, from the 
library of his father, the late Elkanah Watson — Daubenton's 
Advice to Shepherds; McKenzie's Treatise on the Diseases and 
Management of Sheep; Transactions of the Society of Useful 
Arts, 1815, vol.4; Memoirsof Philadelphia Agricultural Society, 
vol. 4; Memoirs of the Board of Agriculture, New York, vol. 2. 
In relation to the works on the sheep, Mr. Watson remarks, 
"they are the identical volumes which my father procured at a 
very early day, to inform himself as to the wool growing interest, 
