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10. For the best bull under two years old — one 

 year's subscription to tlie Southern Agriculturist. 



11. For the best cow over three years old — one 

 year's subscription to the New York Farmer and 

 the Northern Farmer. 



12. For the best heifer under three years old 

 — one year's subscription to the Southern Planter 

 and the Ohio Farmer. 



13. For the best tiitted ox or cow — buck carv- 

 ers and steel — cost, not over .§6. 



14. For the second best — the same — cost, not 

 to exceed .'^4. 



15. For the best yoke of work oxen — the same 

 as No. 7. 



16. For the best ram — one year's subscription 

 to the New York Farmer. 



17. For the ])en of best ewes, not less than six 

 — one years subscription to the Genesee Farmer 

 and Farmers' Reporter. 



18. For the second best — one years subscrip- 

 tion to the Genesee Farmer. 



19. For the best boar — one year's subscription 

 to the Maine Farmer and Northern Farmer. 



20. For the best sow— one year's subscription 

 to the Maine Farmer and Farmers' Reporter. 



21. For the heaviest hog (live weight,) under 

 one year old — ivory cai'vers and steel — cost, not 

 over $ 4. 



22. For the best suit of clothes, that is, coat, 

 pantaloons and vest, made at home of wool and 

 cotton, (the exhibitor wearing the same on the 

 day of show and iliu-) — a pair of silver sugar tongs 

 — cost, not over ^3. 



23. For the best piece of negro winter clothing 

 not less than ten yards — a pair of silver sugar 

 tongs— cost, not over ^2 50. 



24. For the best piece of carpeting not less than 

 ten yards — a Britannia coffee pot — cost, not over 



25. For the best pair of stockings of wool, cot- 

 ton, thread or silk — a silver thimble — cost, not 

 over SI- 



26. For the best specimen of domestic fabric 

 (other than what is above named) made of wool, 

 cotton, flax, hemp, silk, grass, any or all combined 

 — a cream ladle — cost, not over ^3. 



27. For the greatest product in corn, not less 

 than five adjacent acres — a two-horse jilough. 



28. For the greatest product in wheat, not less 

 than ten adjacent acres — a three-horse plough. 



29. For the greatest product (that is, the most 

 money,) in tobacco, not less than five adjacent 

 acres — a two-horse plough. 



30. For the best farm, not less than 100 acres 

 — a silver cup — cost, not over ,^12. 



31. For the second best — the same — cost, not 

 over -S 10. 



32. For the third best — the same — cost, not 

 over S8. 



HOW TO CONSTRUCT AN "EDITORIAL COMIVIU- 

 NICATION." 



To the Editor of the Farmers' Register. 



It will be admitted, INIr. Editor, that the interest 

 taken by readers in your journal, and also its gen- 

 eral reputation, will depend in a very great degree 

 upon what proportion of each number consists of 

 original communications. It is very true, (as I 

 have seen stated lately in another periodical,) that 

 "a good article is none the worse because it has 



appeared before, and in some other work." But 

 nol withstanding, readers do not like to be confined 

 to second-hand articles, though they may be "as 

 good as new." They think, and very reasonably 

 too, that if the journals vvhlch furnish these arti- 

 cles at first, are equally cheap and accessible, it 

 would be as well to iuive the articles in them, 

 when both iiew and good. 



Under this feeling, (whether right or wrong,) 

 when I receive a new number of the Farmers' 

 Register, I am sure first to look over your Table 

 of Contents; and most cheerfully do I accord in 

 the general opinion that your monlhl}' bill of fare 

 is always good, and presents a large and increas- 

 ing proportion of original communications. But 

 though your readers are satisfied in this respect, 

 (and certainly I am for one,) still permit me to 

 say, that you do not make the most of your oppor- 

 tunities; and if you will profit by the example 

 which I shall place before you, your list of "origi- 

 nal communications" may easily be made much 

 longer than it is, and they can even completely 

 "elbow out" all the selected articles, without losing 

 a particle of their value. I will offer you a single 

 fact as a striking illustration of this plan, and 

 leave you to make the application. Vcrbumsat. &fc. 



Not long ago I first met with a copy of the ag- 

 ricultural journal called the * * * # * #_ 

 In glancing over the list of "original communica- 

 tions" in the Table of Contents, my attention was 

 attracted by the title of "* * **#*#. 

 By the Editor." Turning to the page referred 

 to, 1 found the same imposing title over a piece be- 

 ginning whh a paragraph by the editor, but which 

 was merely introductory to the long communica- 

 tion which appeared first m No. * of the Farmers' 

 Register, and which Avas here copied entire, ex- 

 cept the initial letters which formed the original 

 signature. Now it is true, that if one reads care- 

 fully the introductory lines, he will there find that 

 the very long tail-piece to the small body, was 

 copied from your publication. But the slight ob- 

 server, as \\'eil as any other journals that might 

 think fit to republish from tliis cop}-, would give 

 credit for the v/hole, as it was there marked, to 

 the editor of the * * * « * *^ ^nd not 

 to the Farmers' Register. 



Now I pray you, Mr. Editor, to observe the 

 great advantage of this manner of constructing 

 "original communications — by the editor." By 

 the favor of the writer of this piece, you first en- 

 joyed all the benefit of publishing his original 

 communication; and next, your brother editor, by 

 fiwor of his own ingenuity, enjoyed not only an 

 equal, but a greater advantage — for it is not only 

 claimed (in effect) as original, but as fiom his own 

 pen. 



If you had chosen to profit by this plan of wri- 

 ting editorials, all the various selected articles to 

 which you have prefixed a i^ew lines of your own 

 remarks, would have figured as "original commu- 

 nications — by the editor" — and you may thus, 

 with the utmost ease, appropriate to yourself every 

 other piece that may hereafter be worth your se- 

 lecting. 



SOt'TH. 



Feb. I5th, 1834. 



P. S. I have since seen proof of the practical 

 1 value of the plan above described. Mr. N — 's 

 ' directions to ********** in 



