and 00,344 Hogs. It seems clear, therefore, 

 that this great county of 1,200 square miles. 

 forming the summit level between the basins of 

 the Hudson and the St. La'wrence, with tlie Mo- 

 hawk rising in its centre and other springs that 

 pour their -waters from its bosom into Erie, Onta- 

 rio, and the Susquehanna, makesno pretensions to 

 agricultural precedence, and may, therefore, be 

 excused for not sending to the Fair held at her 

 capital, the proportion of good things, as will be 

 more particularly seen by reference to the list 

 of premiums awarded, Uiat might otherwise 

 have been expected. 



Again, it is to be considered that the com- 

 mendable and judicious liberality of the Rail- 

 road and Steamboat companies, in taking things 

 free to and from the exhibition, coiTesponding 

 in that respect with the practice in England, 

 serves to place distant on a footing -with proxi- 

 aiate counties, and helps to account for the ab- 

 sence of that precedence \vhich the veiy large 

 and populous county of Oneida had been ex- 

 pected to claim and to make good. 



To begin with the Horse — that most sho\^•y 

 and popular, though not most useful of domestic 

 animals : — the displa_y of Stallions \vas large in 

 proportion to that of other descriptions of Horses, 

 as usaally happens on such occasions, they gene- 

 rally appearing on the ground, as do some other 

 characters, for electioneering purposes. Consid- 

 ering the apparent equality, to unpractised eyes, 

 of several in the several classes for which pre- 

 miums were offered, it ^vas perhaps fortunate 

 that the decision of the judges should have been, 

 in all cases, unanimous. The public will thence 

 infer that the grounds of preference must have 

 been decisive, and perhaps the more readily 

 acquiesce in the justice of the awards. 



Their emphatic declaration, ui their report, of 

 the importance of high hreeiing, as the sheet 

 anchor, that, if abandoned by the breeder, mast 

 lead to infinite degeneracy, ought and doubtless 

 wUl have its happy effect ; and nowhere, surely, 

 is it more important to obsei-ve the true princi- 

 ples of breeding than in this State, which con- 

 tinues to levy immense contributions on the 

 indolence and improvidence of some Southern 

 States, who send as regularly to New-York, for 

 all their fashionable Horses, as tliey do for then- 

 liats and their coats, their shoes and their shirts 

 — yes ! for in the upper part of this city there is 

 a steam engine employed in givuig the last 

 finish of a plaited bosom to shirts for the south- 

 ern cities. 



" CoNSTER.VATio.v," a horse lately imported 

 from England, to the consternation of some of his 

 competitors, bore oft" the prize for the "best 

 thorough-bred Stallion." He was said, by his 

 owner, Mr. C. A. Albot, to mea.sure 15 hands 3 

 inches, under the standard. He presents a fore- 

 hand delicate and superb, and is of the highest 

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fini.sh throughout, without a particle of super- 

 fluous bone or beef about him. Thus much 

 may we be allowed to say, though restrained 

 from high commendation or criticism which 

 might be besto\ved on others, for want of time 

 and space, even though it should not be deemed 

 invidious. Being the premium Horse, we have 

 rea.son to expect from the owner such facilities 

 as will enable us to present to the patrons of the 

 Farmers' Library his portrait and pedigree. 



As to Neat Cattle, a most important depart- 

 ment, one would think, in the estimation of 

 fanners, who could make such a fine display of 

 daii-y products as was here exhibited ; it did 

 not present so great a number of new competi- 

 tors as might have been anticipated. In this 

 branch, the show would indeed have been a 

 beggai'ly one of empty boxes, if the fine ani- 

 mals had been withheld, which had already 

 been seen and admired at previous exhibitions, 

 and which are in that waj- becoming as it were 

 stereotyped in the public eye — of these it is 

 true, thanks to their public spirited o\vners, we 

 had perfect modelsof their breed of Short-Homs, 

 Herefords, and Devons — and on all such occa- 

 sions it is important to have models new or old, 

 as standards which farmers should aspire to 

 equal, and even to drive from the ground, by 

 something yet a little superior. Not having 

 time however, if we possessed the ability, to 

 make obsen-ations in greater detail, such as we 

 could hope would be profitable to the reader 

 and the cause, it affords us much more pleasure 

 to give place to the following more favorable 

 impressions of those who were more competent 

 if not more anxious observers. To the able and 

 vigilant Editor of the Albany Evening Jomnal, 

 who, we may presume, was on the ground, we 

 ai-e indebted as vv'ell for the following summary, 

 as for all tlie particulars that will be given in the 

 sequel : 



•' The exhibition of Stock was said by disin- 

 terested judges to be the best ever -witnessed 

 in New-York — and some even said the Union. 

 It is an old saying, that what every body says 

 must be true, and we do not, therefore, feel at 

 liberty to gainsay the correctness of this claim. 



" VVe find, bj' a statement in the Utica Gazette, 

 tliat there were upon the ground, ' 48 Durham 

 cattle, 11 Hereford, 9 Devon, 4 Ayre.«hire — 72 

 in all of foreign breed, 37 native and cross, 21 

 native. 124 Oxen. 12 Steers and 8 fiit cattle — 

 making in all 274 homed cattle. Of Horses 114 

 in all. viz : 28 stallions, 36 matched, 7 geldings, 

 32 marcs and colts, and 10 colt.«. Of Sheep 

 there were 64 long wooled, 112 middle wooled, 

 58 Merinoes, 23 Saxons. To the above kinds 

 adding 34 Swine, we have a grand total of 663 

 as the number of four footed beasts at the Cattle 

 Show.' Taking it for granted that the live 

 .stock, in number and quality, exceeded those of 

 previous years, and that there was a falling off 

 in other particulars, it is not far from the right 

 average to place this Fair on a par with its pre- 

 decessors. It should have exceeded all. 



•' The address was delivered in the afternoon 



