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FARMERS' REGISTER 



[No. 11 



as the others, the committee had no opportunity'of 

 testing its value. 



Wm. p. Taylor, Giairman. 



The committee on flour, report — that they have 

 examined the flour exhibited to them, and award 

 the premium to R. T. Willis, of Oranore. 



Hugh Scott, Chairman. 



Essays on afrricuiture were read by Dr. Wm. 

 Browne, Wm. P. Taylor, and Robert B. Semple: 

 when the society adjourned, to meet to-morrow at 

 10., A. M. 



Saturday morning, Nov. 10. 



At 10, A. M. the president took the chair. On 

 motion of Wm. P. Taylor, John S. Caldwell 

 was unanimously elected secretary and treasurer 

 of this society. The Ibllowing resolution was 

 adopted: Whereas large amounts still remain due 

 upon the books of this society — 



Resolved, That the treasurer be directed to draw 

 off the accounts of delinquent subscribers, and for- 

 ward them to the deputy sheriff's of the counties 

 in which they respectively reside for collection, al- 

 lowing such commission as he may deem proper, 

 not exceeding 20 per cent. 



After the adoption of other resolutions of a pri- 

 vate character, the society adjourned to the town 

 hall to witness the exhibition of domestic manu- 

 factures, and to hear the president's annual ad- 

 dress. 



Afternoon session. 

 The society met at 3 P. M., the president in 

 the chair, when the report of the committee ap- 

 pointed 10 examine domestic manufactures was 

 read. 



The committee reported that they had dis- 

 charged the duties assigned them. They regret 

 that The exhibition has been more indifferent than 

 they have ever before seen it. There were fewer 

 articles exhibited, though those that were shown, 

 were of very superior quality. Among those de- 

 serving a premium, were the Ibllowing: 

 For the best yarn counterpane, L. V. 



Stevens, 83 



For the best cotton ditto, Mrs. Wm. 



Rothrock, 3 



For the best yarn stockings, Miss Tally, 1 



A discretionary premium was awarded to 

 Mrs. Hunter, for sewing silk and a pair 

 of silk stockings, manufactured by her- 

 self, of 5 

 A discretionary premium to Miss A. E. 



Eliason, for silk stockings, 2 



For rug, to Mrs. Wm. Pollock, 3 



Mrs. Stevens, for Scotch plaid, 3 



The committee examined a specimen of brooms, 

 from the factory of Hunt & Browne, and think 

 them superior to any thing of the kind they have 

 ever seen, and justly entitled to a premium. 



The domestics exhibited by the woollens factory 

 of Fredericksburg are recommended as a useful 

 and superior article lor servants' clothing. 



A carpet was exhibited by Mrs. John Hart, of 

 Fauquier, manufactured of cotton. It was very 

 superior of its kind; but as it was not exhibited for 

 a premium, the committee therefore declined to 

 award one. 

 The committee further report— that they have 



examined three suits of clothes; all of which were 

 of superior quality, and displayed great skill in 

 their manufacture. Whilst the suit worn by Mr. 

 Eliason commanded the admiration of the com- 

 mittee, yet, they being dyed and dressed at the 

 fulling mill, placed them in the esteem of the 

 committee out of the rules of the society. The 

 committee, therefore, award the premium to Jo- 

 seph Sanford. 



Wm. C. J. Rothrock, Chairman. 



The committee on butter, award the premium 

 to Miss Nelly Lee, of Orange. 



Wm. Jackson, Chairman. 



A communication was read from Turner H. 

 Ramsey, tendering an annuity of ^15 towards the 

 payment of premiums, additional to his annual fee 

 as member of this society. The offer of Mr. 

 Ramsey, was accepted, and the thanks of the so- 

 ciety tendered him. 



On motion of George Hamilton, 



Resolved, That the secretary cause to be pro- 

 cured, a book, in which each individual now a 

 member, or who hereaffer may become one, shall 

 register his own name, the date of his becoming a 

 member, and the county in which he resides. 



On motion of Wm. P. Taylor, 



Resolved, That the annual subscription of each 

 member of this society, on and after the next fall 

 meeting, be ^3. 



On motion of James M. Garnett, 



Resolved, That the Agricultural Essays of 

 Messrs. Browne, Taylor, and Semple, read to 

 this society yesterday, be forwarded to the Farm- 

 ers' Register, with the request of the society that 

 they be published in that journal. 



Resolved, That the proceedings of this society, 

 with the president's address, be published in the 

 Herald and Arena, of Fredericksburg, and the 

 Farmers' Register. 



The thanks of the society were, on motion, ten- 

 dered to the president and secretary— and the so- 

 ciety adjourned. 



James M. Garnett, PresH. 



R. B. Semple, 



Sec'ry. ^ Treas^r. pro tern. 



From a Foreign Journal. 

 THE MOON. 



In the last number of the Monthly Chronicle, 

 we find some statements drawn from astronomi- 

 cal observations, which must be quite new to 

 those who have hitherto supposed this planet to 

 be inhabited by animal beings. The most power- 

 ful telescope ever yet constructed does not enable 

 us to see distinctly an object whose visual magni- 

 tude is so small as one second, corresponding to a 

 mile on the surface of the moon. It therefore fol- 

 io ws that an object, say a town on the moon, measur- 

 ing a mile across in each direction, would be too 

 small to be discerned by any aid which telescopes 

 have yet supplied. " If the moon be examined," 

 says the writer, "for any length of time with the 

 aid of the most ordinary telescopes, the observer 

 cannot fail to be struck with the unalterable cha- 

 racter of the outlines of light and shade upon the 

 surface. These are distinct and well defined, that 

 they may be delineated with great exactness; 



