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Stall feeding is practiced to but a small extent; within the last two 

 years, it has been found a precarious business, owing to the competi- 

 tion by western farmers. Still, stall feeding might be made profita- 

 ble by adopting a difFerenI mode. Instead of feeding meal as has 

 hitherto been the practice, feed at least two-thirds of the time with 

 roots. That is, give two feeds a day with roots, and one with meal. 



11th. Changes necessary to improve the agriculture of the County.. 

 — The changes necessary to improve our agriculture, are a greater at- 

 tention to the improvements which science has enabled the intelligent 

 farmer to make in the methods of cultivation. The attention of the 

 farmer must be excited, correct information must be disseminated, and 

 a standard of thought, if I may use the expression, erected. 



The first step requisite, is to place in every school district library, 

 at the expense of the State, a well bound volume of the annual Tran- 

 sactions of the State Society. A channel for thought will thus be 

 opened, and a taste for agricultural literature created and encouraged. 

 An increased circulation of agricultural periodicals would follow as a 

 matter of course; and then the Agricultural Society would be sus- 

 tained in such a manner as to make itself permanent, and its useful- 

 ness greatly increased. 



My owii experience in the management of the County Agricultural 

 Society, has convinced me that nothing can be done that will be of 

 more benefit at this time than to place the Transactions of the State 

 Society within the reach of every farmer in the State. 



It would then be an easy task to form a Farmer's Club in every town, 

 where stated meetings should be held for the discussion of the various 

 subjects connected with agriculture. The formation of these clubs 

 in England is doing the cause immense service, by bringing out a 

 mass of facts that could be collected in no other manner so well; and 

 facts well authenticated, are the very things that the farmers want, 



A model farm properly conducted, in this part of the State, would 

 exert a very salutary influence upon the agriculture not only of this 

 but of all the counties in this region. There are few if any who 

 have the capital requisite to establish such a farm; or having it, have 

 the time or skill necessary for its successful prosecution. 



AGRICULTURE OF ONEIDA COUNTY. 



BY BENJ. P. JOHNSON, ROME. 



Oneida county has a population of about 90,000, and is divided 

 into twenty-five towns and the city of Utica. The surface of the 

 county generally is diversified enough to give variety, and to ensure 

 streams of pure living water, and an atmosphere remarkably salu- 

 brious. Some of the northern towns are considerably hilly, but the 

 central and western parts of the county are sufficiently level, diver- 

 sified with occasional undulations. 



