Bifolium, 4to; lithographically printed text on p. [1] only; previously folded down into self envelope (loss from removed wax seal not affecting text), addressed in manuscript; very good. Circular requesting "experimental knowledge of our best farmers" for the second volume of the Board's Memoirs. This plea is due to the fact that "The materials furnished by the County Agricultural Societies are very scanty"; the Committee therefore "solicit you to aid them, by communicating...any experiments, observations or facts, which have come within your practice, or fallen under your notice, and which you may deem calculated to extend the sphere of agricultural knowledge...The General Committee request, that in any communications which you may make in pursuance of this request, you will endeavor to be concise and perspicuous, and that on subjects relating to tillage, the condition and nature of the soil, price of labor and manure, method of cultivation and product, and valuable breeds of animals, may be particularly noted." The circular is signed in text by Stephen Van Rensselaer; J. Buel, Rec. Sec'ry. The self envelope is addressed in manuscript to "Judge Moon, Champlain, [illegible]"; "Stephen Van Ransaler [sic] Circular 1822" added in another hand. The postal cancellation stamp is dated Albany, July 8. Not copies in OCLC; not in Shoemaker.