500 MONTHLY JOURNAL OF AGRICULTURE. 



THE NEW- YORK STATE AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY: 



ITS NEXT EXHIBITION. 



As WILL be perceived by the following communication from its zealous and estimable 

 President, that the next Annual Exhibition is to take place at Saratoga Springs, on the 14th, 

 15th and 16th of September, 1847. The premiums offered in money and other fonns exceed 

 $3,000 ; and it is not a little gratifying to see that the rules for the guidance of all competitors 

 for premiums have been drawn up evidently with much and suitable deliberation aud care. 

 One requisition only seems to us to be rej^ugnant to every idea of the character that we 

 would hope belongs to the very occupation of a free-boru American husbandman. We refer 

 to the requirement of an oath or affirmatio7i to the tinitli of statements made in all cases of 

 any consideration, where the award of the premium must depend more or less on the per- 

 sonal veracity of the competitor. It were to be hoped that in such a case the moral sense 

 of the community must be so tixed, so universal, so well understood, that the certainty of 

 universal scorn and detestation would be all-sufficient to deter any man, if any man (of 

 couj'se we do not say gentleman) could be found into whose contemplation the idea of wUl- 

 fiil deception or fraud could find its way on such an occasion. Any man who should be 

 found guilty of any attempt at deception would, we may presume, be at once stigmatized 

 as a black sheep, and so marked as to become " a fixed figure for the time, for Scorn to point 

 his slow, unmoving finger at," wherever he should show himself 



It would not be easy to find a more convenient or suitable place for this great exhibition of 

 the industiy of the State ; and even without any express stipulation on the part of the pro- 

 prietors of the public houses there, the public would have had, we think, in their character, 

 a sufficient guaranty against the disposition, mean as it was mercenary, which has prompted 

 the proprietors of such establishments in some other places to practice the most infamous 

 extortion, to the disgust of all liberal minded strangers and the scandal of the towns that 

 support them. The hotel keepers, except one, havp pledged themselves to specific charges. 



For ourselves, we here bespeak, in time, a room in old " Congress Hall," where for more 

 than a quarter of a centuiy we have fomid, " m the season of the year," excellent fare, kind 

 attention and genteel, intelligent, safe and quiet company. 



For The Farmera' Library. 



NEW-YORK STATE AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



Agbicultubal Rooms, Albany, April 8, 1847. 



The Executive Committee have the satisfaction to announce to the Agriculturists of the 

 State, that our distinguished fellow-citizen, Hon. Silas Wright, has accepted an invitation 

 tendered to him to dehver the Annual Address on the Fair ground at Saratoga on the 16th 

 of September next. 



It will doubtless have been perceived from the published proccedmgs of the Executive 

 Conunlttee, that they have, in accordance with the recommendation expressed by the 

 Society at the Animal Meeting in .Ianu;uy, located the CatUe-Show and Fair at Saintoga 

 Springs, to be held on the 14tl), I'ith and Kith of September, 1847. 



A Delegation of the Coinmittee visited Saratoga, and selected a fine, elevated plat of 

 ground, within a quarter of a mile of Congress Spring, containing an area of tifteen acres or 

 more, which will be inclosed. Spacious buildings will l)e erected within the iuclosure, with 

 ample accommodations f()rall ailicles presented tijr exhibition. 



Care will also be taken that arrangements on an extensive scale, appropriate to the occa- 

 sion, be made for th(! recei)tion and exhii)iti(>n of every description of stock, fann implements, 

 articles of domestic maniifucliu'e, fiuits, ilovvers, and articles of mechanic skill, Ac. 



Arrangements will l)e made with the several railroad companies for the gi'atuitous trans- 

 portation of stock, as well as other articles designed for exhiVjition, so as to aiiive a day or 

 two pi-evious to the first day of cxhiintion. 



The two railroads leading to Saiatoga will he in readiness to transport, without hindrance 

 or delay, the visitors who may desire to be present on the occasion. 



B. P. Johnson, Secretary. GEO. VAIL, PresidenU 



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