AGRICULTURAL SURVEY. 
The executiye committee feeling the importance of a full and ac¬ 
curate agricultural survey of the State, secured the services of Asa 
Fitch, M. D., of Salem, Washington county, to make the survey of 
that county. From the well known reputation of Dr. Fitch, the com¬ 
mittee feel themselves peculiarly fortunate in securing his services for 
this important work. He has commenced his labors and has pursued 
his investigations during the past summer and autumn, but has not 
been able to finish the survey, but will complete it the ensuing year. 
The letter of the secretary, with the plan of the proposed survey, 
is annexed, and also a letter from Dr. Fitch, in relation to the sur¬ 
vey. It is believed that the survey of this county, w T hen completed, 
will furnieh a pattern for other counties, and that a portion of the 
funds of the society can in no way be appropriated to more advan¬ 
tage to the agricultural interest of the State, than in continuing the 
survey of the State. 
Agricultural Rooms, ) 
Albany, May 12th, 1847. £ 
Asa Fitch, M. D. 
Dear sir—You have been selected to make an agricultural survey 
of the county of Washington; to collect accurate information in re¬ 
lation to the state of its agriculture, and every subject connected 
with it; to suggest means of improvement, and to make report with 
as much exactness as circumstances will admit. 
I enclose you a plan of the proposed survey, adopted by the execu¬ 
tive committee of the New-York State Agricultural Society, which 
will direct your attention to such inquiries as are deemed most im 
portant. Your own experience will guide you in the fulness of ex¬ 
amination and report under the various heads, some requiring from 
their importance much more extended notice than others. 
The reports on natural history, which have been prepared under 
the direction of the Legislature, will aid you materially in some 
branches of the survey, as many of the inquiries submitted can be 
answered probably through them, and without as minute personal 
examination as would otherwise have been necessary. 
