PREFACE. 
TTHE Society for the Promotion of Agricultural 
Arts and Manufactures having expired by the limit¬ 
ation contained in the act of incorporation, another 
act of the legislature has been obtained, reviving 
its corporate powers under its present name, and a 
modification in some respects altered. It was 
found by experience that much of the business of 
the society could not be so well conducted at meet¬ 
ings of its members generally, as by a few selected 
for the purpose of devoting their special attention 
to those objects that required a considerable share 
of deliberation. The new act therefore provides 
for the appointment of a council, whose duties are 
particularly defined by a by-law, and embrace all 
such matters as were judged to merit more than 
ordinary investigation or care in their adjustment. 
Some other alterations were made, but this is the 
most important, and that from which the most be¬ 
neficial effects are anticipated,, as it will always 
secure a select number of the most efficient mem¬ 
bers to watch over the concerns of the society, and 
infuse a spirit into its proceedings. 
The present publication comprehends discrimi- 
nately the transactions of the society, both before 
and after its re-incorporation, a circumstance which 
it was not thought necessary to notice in the title- 
