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*agricuUural hxhibition. 



Vol. r 



competition by reason of their not all being 



full bred Southdowns. 



James Mease, 

 R. A. Parrish, 

 .losEPH Crawford, 

 William VV. Barber, 

 Isaac Roberts. 



Report on Agricultural Imiilenients^ &c. 



The Committee on Agricultural Imple- 

 ments, Report, — That their attention was 

 chiefly directed to ploughs, there being no 

 other implements exhibited worthy of consid- 

 eration. 



To Mr. Joseph Dickinson, Chestnut-Hill, 

 Philadelphia county, they award a first j re- 

 mium of five dollars, for the best Plough. 



To Mr. John Young, Warren county, New 

 Jersey, a premium of three dollars, for the 

 second best Plough. 



To Mr. Wiley, of Chester county, Pa., a 

 premium of three dollars, for his complete 

 and handy Revolving Plough. 



All which is respectfully submitted. 

 James Gowen, 

 David Comfort, 

 John N. Reeve, 

 Thomas Walmsley, 

 Daniel Rittenhouse, 



Commiltee. 



October 22, 1830. 



In addition to the foregoing, there was ex- 

 hibited, by James Gowen, Mount-Airy, Sugar 

 Beet, Mangle Wurtzel, Field Carrot, and Su- 

 gar Parsnep — samples from half acres of each 

 kind, — also, by the same, fine Italian Spring 

 Wheat in head, sowed 6th of April, reaped 

 the *2;?d of July. 



By II. J. Helmbold, fine Sugar Beet. 



By G. Fulton, superior Tuscany Wheat. 



By do., Rappahannock White-Bearded 

 Wheat. 



By Kenderton Smith, Spring Barley, weigh- 

 inp- fifty pounds to the bushel. 



By Samuel E. Leech, very fine Ruta Baga. 



By Isaac W. Roberts, two Sugar Beets, 

 weighing, one nineteen pounds, the other 

 twenty and a half pounds. 



By S. Maupay, Madura Aurantia, or Osage 

 A^pple, a thorn highly esteemed for hedge. 



By .1. R. Bowman, Merion, a mammoth 

 Pumpkin. 



By William Fisher, Chestnut Hill, a large 

 do. 



By Bartlet Crock, a very large Drumhead 

 Cabbage, nineteen pounds weight. 



Samuel Crager, near Rose-Hill, exhibited 

 White Gourd Corn, the ears uncommonly 

 large, and the grain in some of them deeply 

 embedded. 



James Gorden, of New- Hope, from the I,e- 

 panti Mill, Ingham creek, exhibited a sample 



of beautiful Buckwheat Meal, which, from tl 

 peculiar process of hulling and screening 

 this mill, gives to the flour a superior appear 

 ance. 



John Young also exhibited a very fii 

 Buckwheat Meal, from the mill of Cresma 

 Cresman, Roxbury, Warren county, Nev 

 Jersey. 



An account of the Sale, &c., on the secor 

 day, with further particulars regarding th 

 proceedings of the Society, may be cxpecte 

 in our next. 



The Editor of the Germantown Telegrapl 

 who was present at the exhibition, sa3^s the 

 it " was not on the whole, as extensive an 

 complete as we could have desired ; th 

 live stock, however, were almost, general! 

 speaking, of a very superior description! 

 and attracted great and deserved attei 

 tion. The crowd of spectators — many ctl 

 whom were from a considerable distance- 

 showed the interest which had been awakene' 

 on the subject, in the right kind of people.— 

 Indeed, of the five or six thousand who al, 

 tended on the first day, tour-fifths of the nun!| 

 her were constituted of the best and most iii 

 telligent farmers, in Philadelphia, MontgoE 

 ery, Delaware, Chester, Lancaster, Buckil 

 and other counties, in this state, and in thj 

 states of Delaware and New-Jersey. Fron 

 the fact, that these men have showed so stronii 

 an inclination to encourage this, the most at 

 cessible and valuable means of advancing th' 

 agricultural interests of the country, wehav 

 no fears but that the future Exhibitions of th 

 Society, will be supported in a manner and t 

 an extent, greatly exceeding the past, am 

 comporting more fully with the intelligenc' 

 of the community and the importance of thi 

 object. 



Nothing w^ould be more conducive to thi 

 result, than the publicity of the fact, that thesi 

 exhibitions are to be annual ; that the sami 

 place, which is the most eligible that couli 

 any where be selected — will be the permaneii 

 i Exhibition Ground; and that every accommo 

 dation will be provided for live stock, and al 

 other necessary arrangements made. W( 

 would also recommend to the Society what wt 

 consider a very important matter — the extru- 

 sion of the exhibition from one to two days. 

 This addition would afford an opportunity tc 

 all desirous to attend, to be present; and thus I 

 attaching a still greater degree of interest, 

 while it would add a character and solidity to 

 the Exhibitions, that it is impossible for tlie 

 brief period of a single day — especially if the' 

 weather be inclement — to impart." 

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A desire for admiration is the oflspring of 

 vanity. . ' 



