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STATE AGEICULTUEAL SOCIETY. 
belief that the important character of the industrial enterprises 
of which they make record renders their inclusion especially 
appropriate. 
So far as it relates to the literary character of those portions 
original with the Secretary—which necessarily constitute a 
large proportion of the entire volume—and to the typographi¬ 
cal correctness of all portions, he hopes it will be borne in 
mind by the reader, that nearly every page was prepared from 
brief notes just in advance of the compositors, while the work 
was in press, and in the midst of other pressing duties; so 
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that, for the most part, it was impossible for him either to re¬ 
vise his manuscript, or to give to the proof of any portion of 
the volume that careful attention it ought to have received. 
J. W. HOYT. 
State Agricultukal Booms, Jan., 1869. 
