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On Wove Woolen Stocking. 



Thomas Potter, Utica, a like premium for specimens of ladies 

 and gentlemen's woven woolen stockings. 



On Cotton Stockings. 



To Mrs. M. J. A. Morris, 1st, 2 00 



Sophia Willard, New-Hartford, 2d, 1 00 



Mrs. Dolphus Skinner^ Deerfield, 3d, Diploma. 



On Tow Cloth. 



To Mrs. William Potter, Marcy, 1st, 1 00 



Mrs. William Ottley, Phelps, 2d, Diploma, 



being the only two pieces presented for premium from 

 the Empire State. 



The articles of blankets, flannels, carpets, coverlids and hearth 

 rugs were many and of respectable manufacture, but in most other 

 articles there was but a meagre competition, and particularly in 

 woolen cloth, which ought to be the staple of home manufacture, in- 

 stead of fifty pieces being presented for premiums, which might be 

 considered a moderate estimate, there were but two pieces, and those 

 manufactured by machinery ! 



ROSWELL RANDALL, Cortland, Chairman, 

 IRA HOPKINS, > p 



HENRY FELLOWS, I '"^^^Sa, 



Committee. 



FRUIT. 



The committee on fruit report : 



The exhibition of this year, from the unfavorable season, was much 

 smaller than usual. There were however, several collections of dis- 

 tinguished merit, among which was a fine one from Wm. Kenrick, of 

 Newton, near Boston, and several others from contributors within 

 the State, to whom premiums were not given, but who deserve the 

 thanks of the State Agricultural Society for their praiseworthy zeal 

 in thus adding to the interest of the Fair. In the department of ap- 

 ples, the committee were at a loss to choose between several collec- 

 tions of nearly equal merit, and the difficulty was increased in some 

 cases by confusion of arrangement from a want of distinct labels, and 

 by the exclusion of some varieties not cultivated on the grounds of 

 the exhibitors. Members of the committee, who were competitors, 

 were not consulted in deciding on their own cases. The majority of 

 the committee agreed in awarding the following premiums : 



Table .Apples. 



For the greatest variety of Table Apples, to Ellwanger & 



Barry, Rochester, $5 00 



