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means of valuable books, so as to provide food for tlie mindy has 

 received general approval. Agriculture left in a great measure 

 to its own resources, has continued to improve, and has obtained 

 great results. Whoever compares the United States of tl^e present 

 day, -with that which was occupied by the Indians, a country 

 covered with forests and marshes, where the inhabitants were 

 chiefly employed in hunting or petty warfare, will scarcely deny 

 that mind has had something to do with the change. 



The facts and rules of action by which the change has been ef- 

 fected, form an important part of human knowledge ; that know- 

 ledge which the agriculturist acquires from his ancestors. Eut 

 it is not now, however lately it may have been the practice, when 

 farmers of the first order of intelligence will be satisfied with 

 knowing and following the mere mechanical routine of time, and 

 of the former modes of culture. An impulse has been given to 

 the mind — its faculty of curiosity, the mother of knowledge, has 

 been excited, and men who were content to know, how much will 

 ^do, now demand to know the way in which it woyks. Tell us, say 

 they, how it ac^5, and we shall better understand all the details of 

 practice, and be better prepared in case of disappointment, to ier- 

 ert out the reasons of failure, and to guard a^gainst its recurrence. 

 Hence it is, that a new awakened spirit of enquiry is busy to find 

 out the true science of all things that come within the compass of 

 the farmer's calling. 



To meet these exigencies, the society early in the season an- 

 nounced a large number of valuable agricultural books as pre- 

 miums, viz : /. 



231 volumes of books, and about 100 diplomas; 7 medals; 6 

 butter knives ; making, together with cash premiums, nearly ifSOO. 



Cattle. — The exhibition of tliorough bred and grade stock, was 

 much larger than had been anticipated, and some dilficulty was 

 experienced on the nnjrning of the fair to find suitable ^tands lur 

 all. 



John C. Jackson, of Newtown, received prenilunis for his short 

 horn bull, Astoria, by Duke oi Exeter, out of Crcnm-pot 5tli ; 

 heifer, Nymph 2d, by 3d Duke of Cambridge, out of Nymph 1st ; 



