STATE AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY. II 



muuity of men is becoming a brotherhood of active, zealous, in- 

 genious workers to give to the hand of industry an easier labor 

 and a surer reward. The rapid development of the Canadas 

 causes its citizens to be intensely awake to whatever is to advance 

 their agricultural interests. 



The press made active record of the incidents of the exhibition 

 during its progress, and the delineation thus furnished found its 

 way through all parts of the Union; the telegraph picturing before 

 the planter of Louisiana every movement of the farmer of New- 

 York at his great annual festival. 



In machinery the record of each year is one of astonishing 

 progress. Already our people, overleaping the barriers of pre- 

 cedent and doubt, so formidable in other lands, are testing every 

 form and combination of the wheel, the lever, the cog, to furnish 

 a power by which the land can be prepared, tilled, reaped, har- 

 vested, forests felled; and step by step, in rapid movement, the 

 inventor is achieving his desire, performing his work, receiving 

 his reward. Many new machines were shown at this fair, and 

 the Society saw in them the certain indication of other conquests 

 over forest and field. The history of Agricultural machinery is 

 a history bearing faithful record to the good wrought out by the 

 State Agricultural Society. 



Tlie labors of the fair were cheerfully performed, its general over- 

 sight committed to a greatly valued and long cherished friend of 

 the society, was in that order which it was precisely in his habit to 

 administer, and the citizens of Watertown generally deserve, as they 

 have received, the high commendation of their fellow citizens every- 

 where, fi)Y their enterprising arrangements of the Annual Fair 

 wliich belonged to them. Floral Hall would have been radiant 

 with all the countless treasures of the rich gardens of the vicinity 

 but for the ravages of the storm, still that which remained was 

 in itself sufficient to indicate that a gentle and a pleasant taste 

 had won place for itself at the north, in a degree rivaling the 

 exliibition of other sections of the State, more genial in tempera- 

 ture. Wlien the weather meliorated, the scenes in the vast arena 

 were animated, and the people in movement from hall to hall, 

 dispersed in admiring observation of the stock, was the type of 

 wliat all the days would have presented if the rain cloud had 

 sooner passed away. 



