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spirits, without being excited by ardent spirits, all tended 

 to make the trip one to be long remembered. 



Another fact that should be remembered is, that the 

 rail-road companies between Schenectady and Utica, and 

 between Utica and Syracuse had tendered the use of the 

 roads to the State Society, and all the agents and con- 

 ductors seemed to evince a most laudable zeal in getting 

 their unusual fare safely through. I am satisfied that 

 this praiseworthy effort of those gentlemen of Albany 

 and vicinity, who exerted themselves so much in getting 

 up this show, will tend much to wake up the sleeping 

 energies of the country, to the importance and benefit of 

 paying more attention to agricultural fairs. 



Of the proceedings of the fair, it is not necessary to 

 speak, as that has already been published, but the recep- 

 tion that I met with there was such as to convince me 

 that the labor of those who devote themselves to encour- 

 age their brethren in the spirit of agricultural improve- 

 ment, will be sure to meet with an ample reward from 

 them whenever they have an opportunity to show their 

 respect. 



One of the marks of respect of which I feel justly 

 proud, was one of the most elegant pitchforks that ever 

 I saw, and which has been universally admired by the 

 thousands who have seen it, that was presented to me by 

 and in the name of the State Agricultural Society of New 

 York, by H. S. Randall, esq., 1 Cor. Sec'y of the Society, 

 of Cortland Co., where it was manufactured, by Mr. 

 Lewis Sanford. I also was presented with one of Barn' 

 aby & Moore's premium side hill plows, which has also 

 been much admired by all who have seen it since it has 

 been in my possession. I was also presented with another 

 premium plow, but as I failed to receive it before I left 

 Buffalo, I will take another occasion to speak of it when 



1 Henry Stephens Randall, born May 3, 1811, Brookfield, Madi- 

 son County, New York; died August 14, 1876, Cortland. Agricul- 

 turist, educator, author, authority on sheep. See Dictionary of 

 American Biography, 15:347-48. 



