Excerpt from Fifth Annual Report of the American Institute: Made to the Legislature April 20, 1847 That your committee have given the subject that consideration which the intense and varied interest of agriculture would seem to demand from their hands. It is a conceded point among the liberal and enlightened portion of the community, that those who till the soil should be enabled to draw copiously from the rich streams of modern science. For to the agriculturists are, in a great measure, committed the destinies of the country. Then how vitally important that they transmit, unim paired, the dear pledges of the nation's hope, her civil and religious institutions, to posterity! About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.