Excerpt from Transactions of the American Institute of the City of New-Yok: For the Year; 1851

In conformity to the law passed May 5, 1841, the Trustees of the American Institute present herewith a report of their proceedings in the department of agriculture for the year 1851, containing detailed statements of their exhibitions of pure breed and other useful farm stock, and of the agricultural productions of our country, as presented at their late 24th annual fair, held at Castle Garden, in the city of New-York.

We did not anticipate at our annual Fair for 1851, a very extensive display of the products of agriculture, owing to the occurrence of circumstances, during a large portion of the season, unfavorable to tillage; particularly in that region of country from which the materials composing our exhibitions are mainly derived. We have been, however, very agreeably disappointed. The exhibition in all the departments of agriculture, horticulture, pomology, and floriculture, was very full, presenting specimens of superior quality, in some respects, to those of former years. The cereals, and the various modes of preparing them for the purposes of food and transhipment, are marked with improvement, as the various details to be found in the following pages will more fully explain.

The display of agricultural implements was very complete among them we would particulary notice as new and deserving attention, the flax and hemp breaking and dressing machine of S.0. Clemens, of Springfield, Mass.; the grain drill of R. J. Gatling, of Indianapolis, Ind.; the self-sharpening straw and brush cutter of Reuben Daniels, Woodstock, Vt.

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