Excerpt from Address Delivered at the Annual Meeting of the N. Y. State Agricultural Society, Albany: February 13, 1867 From the best information I can obtain from different counties in the State, I believe that we cannot assumea higher per centage of profit on the agricultural investment of the State than three per cent; very many of our most acute and observing farmers believe that the average profit of agriculture is only two per cent. 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.