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American Institute. 
navigable rivers, canals and rail roads, and 
the resort of intelligence and enterprise from 
every quarter of the globe, these annual ex- 
nibitions have displayed the congregated 
products of the best portion of a Hemisphere. 
Every arrangement that could add effect and 
interest to this exhibition have been provided. 
The most ample and convenient room has 
been afforded, and a refined and elegant 
taste has given to them order, beauty, and 
attraction, by the nice adjustment and har¬ 
monious grouping of the varied productions 
of the husbandman, the artisan, the manu¬ 
facturer, and the artist. The beneficial 
effects that have resulted from these exhi¬ 
bitions, and which are yet to be developed 
in their progressive influence, cannot be 
estimated. They have excited the indolent, 
they have enlightened the ignorant, they 
have rewarded the meritorious, and they 
have cheered the hopes of every lover of his 
country who has witnessed them. 
We have but few of the data of the transac¬ 
tions of the Institute before us; but from 
these we learn, that the aggregate receipts 
for the last seven years have been $51,920 96, 
all of which has been rigidly applied to pro¬ 
mote the objects of its existence. Of this 
large amount, nearly all has been the contri¬ 
bution from private and individual liberality, 
a small portion only having been appropriated 
by the Legislature of the State. The greater 
part of this sum has been required for the 
large expenditures for rents, library, printing, 
and the various disbursements incidental to 
its operations j leaving but a small amount 
to be applied as premiums to the successful 
competitors for its rewards. We subjoin the 
last in a tabulated form :— 
Year. 
Gold 
Medals. 
Silver 
Medals. 
Silver 
Cups 
Diplomas. 
Vols. 
Value. 
1835 
16 
91 
00 
340 
00 
$905 40 
1836 
27 
125 
00 
249 
00 
1138 00 
1837 
29 
126 
00 
308 
00 
1198 30 
1838 
26 
167 
00 
396 
00 
1370 04 
1839 
27 
124 
13 
384 
00 
1155 44 
1840 
12 
60 
18 
331 
00 
842 50 
1841 
17 
118 
18 
336 
26 
1172 03 
Total, 
154 
811 
49 
2344 
26 $7781 71 
It will be seen, that the total of expendi¬ 
tures for all the objects embraced by the 
Institute, besides the honorary rewards in 
diplomas to the number of 2,344, amounts to 
$7,781 71. But, as our design in calling the 
attention of our readers to the Institute is 
strictly connected with the objects of our 
work, we shall confine ourselves entirely to 
its agricultural character. We find the Pre¬ 
miums awarded to the agricultural depart¬ 
ment are— 
Gold 
Silver 
Silver 
’** 
Year 
Medals. 
Medals. 
Cups. 
Diplomas. 
Vols. 
Value. 
1835 
2 
4 
00 
17 
00 
$43 50 
1836 
3 
9 
00 
28 
00 
104 00 
1837 
2 
25 
00 
39 
00 
.110 00 
1838 
4 
21 
00 
42 
00 
176 00 
1839 
6 
17 
13 
70 
00 
323 24 
1840 
2 
12 
18 
60 
00 
332 25 
1841 
6 
31 
17 
71 
26 
529 97 
Total, 
24 
109 
48 
327 
26 $1618 96 
Although the above amount seems small in 
comparison with the large sum received, yet 
in the various disbursements for rents for 
the accommodation of farming implements, 
steam-engine for propelling farming and other 
machinery, printing reports on agricultural 
subjects, and the incidental expenses con¬ 
nected with this object, nearly one-third of 
the gross receipts have been expended. As 
agriculturists, however, and representing by 
far the most numerous and important branch 
of the industrial portion of the country, we 
think we have a right to claim a greater share 
of the attention and pecuniary means of the 
Institute. Though receiving its charter and 
organization from a single State, that one, by 
universal consent, is the Empire State. Its 
objects have ever been, and, we trust, will 
ever be, as its name imports, truly and en¬ 
tirely national. Every citizen of this wide¬ 
spread Union, has an equal claim to its bene¬ 
fits and rewards. And occupying as it does, 
in its locality, the commercial centre of the 
country, we are desirous of seeing it, as it 
may be, the agricultural centre likewise, to 
such extent, at least, as a national stamp can 
be imparted to any agricultural society in a 
country embracing so widely-diversified cli¬ 
mate, productions, and extent. We are de¬ 
sirous of seeing increased efficiency and de¬ 
votion to this feature in its character, and 
think we discover in the progressive advance¬ 
ment made in this branch within the last few 
years, the rapid approximation to our most 
sanguine wishes. 
The amount to be appropriated in agricul¬ 
tural premiums this season, is about $800; 
while the expenses of fitting up and rents for 
the various rooms and grounds, will be equal 
to thrice this amount. We are not satisfied, 
however, with the meagre lists of animals 
and products receiving rewards from the 
Institute; and we hope, before the ar^nge- 
ments for the Fair of the ensuing season are 
matured, such accessions to its agricultural 
department will have been received, as to 
afford the full measure of importance and 
weight to which it is intrinsically entitled 
We annex the agricultural and horticultu¬ 
ral lists of premiums, committees (so far as 
