page_0003

balls of equal size. The other mechanical pow-
ers may be explained with almost equal ease -
Machinery, even in its complicated form is easily
understood by such as are familiar in practice
with its operation and terms.

It is only necessary that our young men
should have their attention called to this
subject, to awaken a desire to obtain that practical
knowledge in mechanics which every farmer
should possess.

Do reflect upon this Subject, and if
the parent Society for the promotion of Agri-
cultural & mechanical improvement through-
out the State, can devise and recommend
some good, and readily practicable method
of inducing our [favours?] & mechanics to engage
heartily in the work of mutual improvement,
the result can scarcely fail to be most useful &
permanently beneficial to us all. -

I shall be at the annual meeting if I
can be spared from other duties, & shall, if I do
go, calculate much on the pleasure of meeting with
you there. Most Sincerely your friend William S. [Ward?]

Dr Kennicott