All books, models, drawings, or specimens, that any of these committees procure in the course of their labours, shall be kept in such place as it should direct.
It is recommended that the formation of the following standing committees be authorized at the time—to be renewed at the first stated meeting in each year.
1st. A committee on farm buildings, fences and implements of husbandry. To study the improvement of houses, barns, barn-yards and out buildings, both as it regards the plan and materials. To examine the relative cost of the different kinds of fences, and the best methods of constructing or raising them. To make improvements in the implements of husbandry, and to introduce such as may be made in other places.
2d. A committee on the Veterinary Art—To investigate the nature and origin of the diseases of domestic animals, and endeavour to ascertain the best methods of prevention and cure.
3d. A committee on Natural History, particularly Mineralogy and Entomology. To develope the mineral productions of the County, and to ascertain its geological structure, partly for the purpose of designating the kind of soil in each neighbourhood. To examine the habits of such insects as injure the crops of the farmer, with a view of discovering the means of destroying them, or preventing their ravages; and such other branches of Natural History as are interesting to the Agriculturalist.
4th. A committee on Political Economy. To attend to the political interests of Agriculture, and examine the manner in which public measures affect it. To inquire into the utility of public improvements, such as canals, bridges, and turnpike roads, and into the means of giving the Agricultural class its due weight in the government.
5th. A committee on Domestic Animals. To inquire after and introduce the best kind, to endeavour to ascertain the most economical and the best methods of rearing, managing and feeding them, together with facts on the relative advantages of the employment of horses and oxen for labour.
6th. A committee on grasses, grains and roots. To inquire after and recommend the best and most profitable kinds, the time and manner of sowing and planting, with the most proper quantity of each per acre, also the previous preparation of the ground and seed, together with the best method of culture.
7th. A committee on Manures.—To endeavour to ascertain the relative advantages of barn-yard manure, plaister, lime, burnt clay, ashes, and all other kinds of manure, with the time and manner of application of each, whether best applied on ploughed or grass lands, on the surface or ploughed in, deep or shallow; together with the best methods of accumulating and preparing barn-yard and stable manure.
8th. A committee on fruit and forest trees.—To endeavour to ascertain the best and most useful fruits of all kinds, with the best method of making wine, and cider, &c. To examine the causes of the premature decay of fruit trees, with a view to their preservation. To ascertain the best time of cutting forest trees, as it respects the durability of the wood, under ground, or exposed to the weather; also for fuel.