Topics: New York State Legislature: letters and petitions from constituents, legislation; Forest Park farm; New York State Agricultural Rooms; coal oil business; Western Union Telegraph Company; agriculture; New York State Agricultural survey; New York State Agricultural Society; diphtheria. Personal names: Wood, M.B.; Cornell, Franklin C.; Cornell, O.H. Perry; Smith, F.O.J. Geography: Albany, N.Y.; Ithaca, N.Y.