10 ANNUAL REPORT OF NEW- YORK 



We consider these examples worthy of being followed up by 

 those who have the means. In what way can money be more 

 worthily bestowed, and from which more useful and practical re- 

 sults be more likely to follow ? The Executive Committee will 

 take great pleasure in carrying out to the best of their ability any 

 experiments that may be calculated to advance the interests of 

 Agriculture in any of its departments. 



Sixteenth Annual Fair. — This anniversary was held at the vil- 

 lage of Water town, in the county of Jeffierson, on the 30th of 

 September, and on the 1st, 2d and 3d of October, and although 

 the weather was most unpropitious, the exhibition was credit- 

 able to the State in every department. The people of the 

 north came in with an enthusiasm that surmounted all obstacles, 

 and it cannot be doubted but that the exhibition has left its valu- 

 able examples, the results of which will for many years be felt 

 for great good in that section of the State — a section whose inesti- 

 mable worth, as part of what may be in truth designated as an 

 empire, cannot be overestimated. The display of stock was 

 among the best shown at our fairs, and was of an extent seldom 

 if ever reached at former exhibitions. Gentlemen who appre- 

 ciate that there belongs of right to this State the excellence of 

 every breed of animals; that New- York has need of all the best 

 blood, and that its farmers have the sagacity to choose and the 

 skill to keep — these gentlemen sent choice specimens of the ani- 

 mals their good judgment selected, and thus there were gathered 

 at Watertown such superb varieties of stock as indicate the coming 

 superiority of this country. 



The Society record with great pleasure the visit to the fair of 

 the Governor of the State. It is to the wise action of the author- 

 ities that the Society owes much of its power to be useful; and 

 it is gratifying when the chief magistrate is present, personally to 

 witness the efficient and enlightened manner in which the aid of 

 the State is distributed to the prosperity of the farmer and the 

 advancement of the farm. 



The contiguity of the provinces brought to the fair a large and 

 warmly welcomed delegation of Canadian gentlemen in all the 

 arts of life ; in the pursuit of the things that tend to the happi- 

 ness of the laborer in whatever department he does his work, all 

 geographical lines throughout the Earth are obliterating; the com 



