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sion ofthe latin word bonus, nominative, bonus arum;genitiveboTi 

 orura,bo.n arum,bon orom: and other like sounds which had their 

 use and meaning a thousand years ago. 



The subjects of manure and the rotation of crops, are either of 

 them sufficient to occupy the time of a whole address. I will 

 barely state two or three general principles. Whatever has been 

 a vegetable, can become a vegetable again. Manure lying for a 

 long time in the field uncovered, is subject to a loss by evaporation^ 

 and manure lying in piles sufficient to produce fermentation and a 

 degree of heat above one huodied by the thermometer, (as is fre- 

 quently the case about horse stables,) becomes volatile, and the 

 most valuable part of it escapes into the air- and the farmer who 

 manages his manure in disregard of these principles, is guilty of 

 the worst species of agrarianism, and loses more every year than 

 the cost in time and money of a membership of this society. Plants 

 differ somewhat in the amount of the several chemical constituents 

 which they contain, as also does manure; and the period at which 

 different portions of manure are brought in a state suitable for the 

 nourishment of plants, is also various, and the successful applica- 

 tion of the principle of rotation in crops, very much depends upon 

 cultivHting in succession the kind of plant which the manure and 

 soil in their then condition are best adapted to sustain. 



OSWEGO. 



Owing to an omission, no report was made by the proper offi- 

 cers ot our society last year to the State society of the doings in 

 this county. It is but pi-oper now to say that it was not deficient 

 in its duty to the agricultural cause. A very spirited fair was 

 held in the city of Oswego, on the 10th and 11th of September, 

 1851 . which, considering the almost unprecedented heat ofthe 

 weallnr at the time, deterring the driving of stock from any great 

 distmice, was every way creditable. The usual amount of pre- 

 miums were awarded in books solely, which, however, was found 

 to W"i k unfavorably, as well as unsatisfiictorily. 



Tli*^ Annual fair for the year 1852, was held on Wednesday and 

 Thursday, the 29th and 30th of September, on the east bank of 



