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MONTHLY JOURNAL OF AGRICULTURE. 



\S''ithotit entering- into details, it may be stated, 

 that the plan embraces the exhibition not mere- 

 ly of products, but of the instruments of produc- 

 tion in actual work — the facility, rapidity, pre- 

 cision, and economy of the act of fabrication be- 

 ing often much more wonderful than the fabric 

 itself, lu carrying out these ideas, it is intended i 



entirely to exclude all private, personal, and po- 

 litical objects. It is hoped that the plan may be 

 preser^'ed so free from objection on these points, 

 as to command the approbation of all ranks, and 

 justify its promoters in anticipating the highest 

 patronage." 



NEW-YORK STATE AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



CATTLE SHOW AND FAIR FOR 1846, TO BE HELD AT UTICA, SEPT. 16, 17, 18. 



have been offered, that we see no occasion, ever, 

 if we had room, for publishing the Bill of Fare 

 in detail. The first on die list are : 



For the best cultivated Farm, of not less than 50 

 acres, exclusive of woodland, regard being had to 

 the quantity of produce, the manner and expense of 

 cultivation, and the actual profits : 



First premium S.50 ) Second do $30 



Third do $20 



Theke is everj' rea.^ou to hope that this great | 

 gathering of practical Farmers, the bone and I 

 sinew of the land, will transcend m numbers 

 and in display of the products of Agricultural 

 Industry, all that have preceded it. At tlie 

 6ea.son chosen, there will still be lingering a 

 vast number of strangers, who have come to 

 escape exposure to the enervating heat of 

 Southern climes, and to obser\-e the habits of 

 their more thrifty brethren of the North. We 

 would recommend all such to gather in at Utica, 

 at tlie great Cattle Show— tiiere they will see 

 Northern men and Northern Industry in their 

 true character and genuine colors — hard hands 

 and hard sense, with their fat bullocks and their 

 fine-wooled sheep — tlieir sharp plows and stur- 

 dy oxen to turn the glebe — the 50 acre man, 

 as proud in his position and as useful in his 

 sphere, as any Lord of the Manor. After all, 

 what is there to be envied, about the man of 

 overgrown estate, except the sagacious indus- 

 try which may have made him so ; and the 

 power that being so confers on him, to set use- 

 ful examples in illustration of modes of im- 

 provement, and in the introduction of good 

 things that require extraordinary means. In 

 that light the rich man is truly emnable. In 

 everj' department of Industry, in everj- imple- 

 ment of Agriculture, those who attend this great 

 Exhibition, and that of tiic American Institute, 

 may expect to see something new. Come, then, 

 Farmers, one and all— these are your Holidays. 

 Let it be there seen, that if the Merchant can 

 boast his splendid Sliip, sailing faster tlian the 

 wind, the Manufacturer his Works, in which 

 omnipotent steam is controled with equal 

 ease to carve a seal or lift the ponderous tilt 

 hammer; so you can show your well-tilled 

 Farm, your elcek horses, your fat cattle, and 

 rich products of the field and the orchard, the 

 dairy and the garden ; all emblems as well of 

 peace as of plenty ! 



The public has been in so many forms adver- 

 tised of the particulars for which premiums 



Bat, Avhat we humbly regard ■witli peculiar 

 approbation is the offer of Premiums : 



For the best series of Essays on the importance 

 of Ecientilic knovcledge in prosecuting Euccess- 



fuUy the ordiuarj' pursuits of Agriculture $100 



For the best Agricultural Text-Book for Schools. 100 



For the best Text-Book on Horticulture 50 



For the best Essay on Subsoil Plowing, with the 

 results of actual experiments in the State of 



New-York 20 



For the best Essay on Draining, with details of 

 the results of actual experiments, showing the 

 expense and supposed increased value of the 



land 10 



For the best Essay on Irrigation 10 



For the best Essay on the Culture and Manufac- 

 ture of Silk 30 



For the best Essay on the prevalent Disease in 



Potatoes 20 



Cattle are classified into and premiums offered 

 for Durluitns. Tltrefords, Vtvonn. Ayrsliires. Crosses of 

 Natires and Improved. Natire Cattle, and Oxen — three 

 year old, tico year old, and yearling Steers, and Fat 

 Cattle. y 



Sheep into Long-woeled, Middle-wooUd, Merinos 

 and their grades, Saxons and their grades, and Fat 

 Slieep. 



Horses into Stallions, Mares, Matched Horses and 

 Geldings. 



Swine into Boars. Soirs, and lots of Pigs. 

 And, for the rest, prizes are oti'ered for 



Poultry, best Farm Implements, Butter. Cheese, Ma- 

 ple Sugar, Corn-stalk .Sugar, Silk, various DomeMic 

 Manilfacturcs, Fruits, Ftovrers — best crops of Wheat, 

 Indian Corn, Rye, Barley. Oats, not less than tw) 

 acres ! and the various Vegetables most cultivated, 

 besides Hops, Flax, Broom Cffrn, Clover and other 

 Grass Seeds. 



Those who present claims to premiums for farm- 

 crops must state in writing the following particulars : 

 The condition of the soil at the commencemeiit of 

 cultivation for the crop : the preinous crop and culti- 

 vation, and quantity of manure used upon it ; the 

 quantity and kind of manure the present season ; the 

 quantity and sort of seed used ; the time and manner 

 of sowing, cleaning and harvesting the crop ; the 

 amount of the crop detennined bv actual weight or 

 mea.surement ; and the expense orcultivation. The 

 land shall be measured by some surveyor, who shall 



