CONTENTS.

Report from the Committee, of the Assembly on Colleges, Aca-
demies and Common Schools, on an Agricultural and Scientific
School and Experimental Farm, April 24, 1847,------
Bill brought in by the same committee to authorize the American
Institute to establish an Agricultural and Scientific School,--

Report of the American Institute for the year 1846,--

Receipts and expenditures of the Institute, Feb. 1846, to Feb.

1847,-----

Receipts and expenditures, 1839 to 1846,---

Premiums awarded, 1835 to 1846,--

Report of the managers of the 19th Annual Fair,---

Premiums awarded at the 19th Fair,-----

Department of Agriculture and Horticulture, ---

Report of special committee on farming animals,-- -

of committee on plowing and spading matches,-

on field crops,-

Messrs. Bell and Morris,---

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Report of committee on cotton, woollen, silk and linen manu-

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Communications,

Culture of Grapes and manufacture of Wine,

Soiling, by R. L. Pell,--

of cattle, by H. A. Field,----

Roots for Cattle, by R. T. Underhill,-

Lime and its uses, by R. L. Pell,

Properties of Manure, by R. L. Pell,-

Improvement of Soils, by H. A. Field,-

Resuscitation of worn out soils, by T. Wharton,-

Use of muck to improve the soil,-

Cultivation of the woad plant, by Wm. Part-

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State of Agriculture in Georgia and South Carolina,- 471

Introduction of Indian Corn into Great Britain,----- 504

BOARD OF AGRICULTURE.

JEREMIAH JOHNSON, Brooklyn, L. I., HENRY A. FIELD, New-York,
PHILIP SCHUYLER, New-York, R. S. LIVINGSTON, Po'keepsie, N.Y.,
NICH'S WYCKOFF, Bushwick, L. I., JOHN P. VEEDER, New-York,
R. T. UNDERHILL, Crot. Point, N.Y., E. M. DODD, Orange, N. J.,
CHAS. HENRY HALL, Harlem, N. Y., EDWARD CLARK, Brooklyn, L. I.,
THOMAS BRIDGEMAN, New-York, J. LAWRENCE SMITH,Smithtown,L.I.,
WM. J. TOWNSEND, Astoria, L. I., ROSWELL L. COLT, Paterson, N. J.,
JAMES DE PEYSTER, New-York,
CHARLES BATHGATE, Morrisania,
THOMAS BELL,

do

J. H. COGGESHALL, Lynn, Mass.,
WM. A. CROCKER, Taunton, do

SAMUEL WALKER, Boston, Mass.,
MORTIMER L. BROWN, Astoria, L.I.,
THOMAS ADDIS EMMET, New-York,
J. FISHER SHEAFE, Po'keepsie, N. Y.,
J. O. CHOULES, Boston, Mass.