504 ANNUAL REPORT OF NEW- YORK 



CORTLAND. 



The Executive Committee met in April, and made out a pre- 

 mium list amounting to $700. 



The eighteenth annual fair was held upon the grounds of the 

 Society in Homer, on the 23d, 24th and 25th days of Sept. The 

 weather w^as pleasant, with the exception of the morning of the 

 second day, and everything passed off to the satisfaction of all 

 parties. 



The plowing match took place on the morning of the first day, 

 the number of competitors was large. After the plowing, the 

 members of the Society, with their wives and daughters, partook 

 of a substantial dinner, prepared by L. Van Anden, and then 

 adjourned to the Presbyterian church, and listened to a splendid 

 poem by Lloyd Glover of Boston, followed by an off-hand, practi- 

 cal address by S. B. Wool worth, L.L. D. 



The second day was wholly occupied by the general exhibition. 

 The show of stock was considered superior to any previous one in 

 the county; 210 head of cattle, 192 horses, 101 sheep were entered 

 for premiums, besides many animals which were brought upon 

 the ground merely for exhibition. Other departments w^ere 

 equally well represented. 



The ladies' riding match came off on the morning of the third 

 day. The manner in which the young ladies acquitted them- 

 selves was worthy of all praise. After the riding was the show 

 of horses in harness, when, as a close, Mr. Glover repeated his 

 poem, by special request, and the reports of the various commit- 

 tees were read. 



The annual meeting was held in Cortland village, Dec 3d. For 

 the premiums offered on field grain crops, no application was 

 made. 



Root Crop. — The Committee report but one application, and 

 that by Moses Kinney of Truxton, who made the following state- 

 ment: — The ground was sward; plowed in the fall; manured in 

 the spring with rotted manure, ten loads on the piece; then cul- 

 tivated and plowed shallow with a corn plow; then dragged and 

 sowed about the first of June; hoed twice and harvested the first 

 of November; three hundred bushels on sixty rods of ground, 

 equal to eight hundred bushels per acre. 



