Excerpt from Transactions of the N. Y. State Agricultural Society, 1853, Vol. 13: With an Abstract of the Proceeding of the County Agricultural Societies Sm. 2. The object of the Society being to improve the condi tion of agriculture, horticulture, and the household arts, they shall be allowed for those purposes only, to take and hold real and personal estate, the former to the amount of ten thousand dollars, exclusive of the agricultural museum and library. 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.