Agriculture is the most healthful , the most useful, and the most noble employment of man.— -Washington. 
VOL. VI. NEW YORK; MARCH, 1847. NO. III. 
A. B. Allen, Editor. Harper & Brothers, Publishers. 
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NEW YORK STATE AGRICULTURAL 
SOCIETY. 
Agricultural Rooms, Feb. 1 1th, 1847. 
Present —George Vail, President; J. M. Sher¬ 
wood, ex-President ; Wm. Buel, Samuel Cheever, 
C. N. Bement, Vice-Presidents ; A. McIntyre, Trea¬ 
surer ; B. P. Johnson, Secretary; T. J. Marvin,W. 
A. Beach, J. T. Blanchard, A. Stevens, Executive 
Committee; E. P. Prentice,Dr. A. Thompson, Wm. 
H. Sotham. 
Mr. Prentice, from the committee on the premium 
list, reported that the committee had been unable to 
complete the list in time for this meeting. And the 
same was re-committed to the committee, to report 
to the Board at their next meeting—and the Secre¬ 
tary was added as a member of the committee. 
A communication from E. M. Gale, M.D., on 
the cause of abortion in cows, was read and referred 
to the committee on preparations and transactions. 
Communications from Hon. Benj. Enos, Madison 
County, and the President, on the adoption of rules 
for measuring corn crops, &c., were read and re¬ 
ferred to the committee on premium list. 
Statement of a crop of oats raised by Hamilton 
Morrison, was presented and read, and no premium 
awarded, as the rules required by the Society as to 
the measurement of land and of the crop, had not 
been observed by the applicant, nor any sample of 
his grain presented. 
On jnotion of Mr. Stevens, the plan of show 
grounds at xluburn, was ordered to be engraved, 
under direction of Messrs. McIntyre, Tucker, and 
Stevens. 
On motion of Mr. Johnson, the President, Mr. 
Sherwood, and Mr. Stevens were appointed a com¬ 
mittee to prepare regulations for grain crops. 
The Secretary was directed to return the thanks 
of the Society to P. L. Simmons, Esq., of London, 
