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of Agriculture are entitled to a prominent rank. Provision has already been made by the State Government to induce, among those engaged to this branch of industry a spirit of improvement. It may, nevertheless, be worthy of careful inquiry on you part whether additional measures may not be necessary to secure to a greater extent, the advantages derivable from this source of wealth. If, by the institution of County Agricultural Societies, a spirit of competition has been in any degree excited among individuals, it may, perhaps, be more generally diffused by enlarging the relationship of these societies. By requiring an interchange of such practical information, as may not otherwise be so effectually promulgated, additional advantage would arise from them to the public. If through the superior enterprise of the agriculturalists of any county, an advance should be made in the science or practice of husbandry, the citizens of every other county in the State, would be benefited both by the example and by the information acquired. Each Society would thus contribute to the immediate advantage of all the rest, and each section of the State would aid the progress of Agriculture in every other section. This operation, too would seem to be founded in justice, as the bounty of the State is shared by each of them at the expense of the whole. The wealth of our citizens in agricultural resources is immense. It needs but a judicious application of their industry to its developments, to enable them to realize the highest condition of ease and influence, that any people can reasonably desire. Whatever