MONTHLY 



JOURNAL OF AGRICULTURE. 



VOL. II. NOVEMBER, 1846. NO. 5, 



EXPLANATION OF THE PLATES. 



T7tc firxt Plate, accompanying this number, belongs to the Monthly Journal of Agri- 

 CULTL'UE, and is designed to present a view of The State Fair, held at Auburn, N. Y., Sep- 

 tember, 1846. 



The aecond Plate belongs to The Farmers' Library, and will come in, at its proper place, in 

 the " Book of the Farm." It is the portrait of a black Draught-Stallion, of the true Clydes- 

 dale bi-eed. He gained the first prize at the Highland and Agricultural Society's Show at Glas- 

 gow, Scotland, and obtained premiums elsewhere. He is represented as being fully 17 hands; 

 and, though otherwise a large animal, being 8 feet 7 inches in length, yet of high and uncom- 

 monly light action. 



[Mr. Corning, at Albany, and others, have imported fine specimens of this breed. Their stock mnst 

 prove of great value in Pennsylvania, and wherever it is necessary to throw great weight into the collar, 

 for heavy draught. — Ed. Farm. Lib.\ 



The third Plate represents an elevation of the East-Lothian Plow, and belongs to The 

 Farmers" Lihrary, and will take its place in the " Book of the Farm," where it will be fully- 

 explained in all its parts. 



[The beam and handles or " stilts" of these plows are almost invariably now made of malleable iron, and 

 it \a said there is no end to their endurance. — Ed. Farm. Lib.] 



AGRICULTURE IN MASSACHUSETTS. 



We do not know how the space it fills could be better occupied than by what 

 follows on the subject of legislative provision for Agriculture in the sedate and 

 sober old Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Well has it been written by Benja- 

 min P. Johnson, Corresponding Secretary of the New-York State Agricultural 

 Society — " Look at Massachusetts, that noble Commonwealth ! Look at her Ag- 

 ricultural Associations, sustained and patronized by the Government, and witness 

 the results of their efforts ! The Empire State is indebted to Massachusetts for 

 almost every superior implement of husbandry ; and her agricultural products, 

 upon a soil far less favorable for cultivation than ours, are such as to require the 

 most improved and efficient system of husbandry to equal her." 



As we rejoice in the belief that the landholders of the United States are at last 

 Waking up to a sense of their rights, as well as of their deficiencies, and that they 

 are beginning, in most of the States, to form the determination to take their own 

 affairs in their own hands, we are glad of the opportunity to assist them in ma- 

 turing measures for the promotion of Agriculture — such measures as have beea 

 adopted, and attended with the best results, in a State whose policy and proceed- 

 ings have, been thus characterized by Mr. Johnson, late President of the New- 

 York State Agricultural Society. 



Attempts, always well meant, however sometimes abortive, have been made» 



and we trust will soon be made again, with better success, in Virginia and other 

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