The New York State Agricultural Society has, by its steady devotion to the interest of the farmer, by the solid sense and intelligence of its officers, by its liberal premiums and its great annual fairs, become one of the most useful, honorable, and influential institutions of the country.

Its premiums now amount to over six thousand dollars per annum, and its Tran* actions, published every winter, contain a great amount of valuable experience and observation. Few of those even who share in the reputation and are benefitted by the results of such a society, know how much of the labor is done by a few earnest, devoted men, who, though not the conspicuous dials of the time keeper, are the concealed balance wheels or regulations so much more necessary to the accuracy and perfection of the machine. The Treasurer and former Secretary of the Society, Mr. Tucker, pre-eminently belongs to this class, and we notice with no ordinary pleasure that by the following resolutions of the society, passed some time since, the executive board have determined to present him with a handsome service of plate, as an acknowledgement of their estimation of his worth.

Whereas ft is the opinion of this board, that the New York State Agricultural Society is greatly indebted to Mr. Luther Tucker for his able, efficient and long continued labors, as a member of the Executive Committee, having acted as its secretary and business officer for the first three years after its reorganisation, in 1841, and aided most efficiently in perfecting its organization, and in carrying into successful operation its first Fairs, at Syracuse, Albany and Rochester, furnishing an office for the Executive Committee, the necessary stationery, be. for the three years: preparing for the Frees, and superintending the printing and distribution of its Transactions, and in performing all the duties devolving upon its local Secretary, for all of which, as well as the expense incurred by him in the performance of these services, he declined to receive any reward: and, Whereas Mr. Tucker has, with the exception of the year 1844, when he declined to act as Secretary, on the ground that the Society was then quite able to pay for such services, and the year 1847, when he again declined the secretaryship, to which he had been elected, served the Society, as a member of this Bovrd, or as its Secretary or Treasurer, from its reorganization to the present time, without remuneration, except for the year 1846, when he was allowed $800, an amount less by $250 than was paid for the same services the previous year: therefore, Resolved, as the unanimous opinion of this Board, that to no man more than to Mr. Tucker is the Society indebted for its present highly prosperous condition, and that the thanks of the Executive Committee, together with a service of plate to the value of 3500, be presented to him. as a testimonial of their high appreciation of his services and character.