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GENESEE FARMER. 



Aug. 1845 



2d beet " " Colman's Tour. 



3d best " " vol. Transactions. 



Best heifer calf, Colman's Tour. 



Beat native yearling heifer, 5 



2d best " " Colman's Tour. 



3d best '< " vol.Transactions. 



Best heifer calf, Colman's Tour. 



Best samples, (not less than three cheeses from 



each of ten dairies in any one county,) $20 



2d beet ditto, 10 



3d best ditto, 5 



A committee on behalf of the citizens of Utica, of 

 which bis honor, E. A. Wetmore, Mayor of the 

 city, was chairman, waited upon the Executive 

 Committee of the State Society. The several lo- 

 cations for the show-grounds, which had been se- 

 lected as proper places for the exhibition, were exa- 

 mined by the officers of the State Society, and they 

 decided that the grounds on Mr. Thorn's farm, on 

 the New Hartford Turnpike, was, upon the whole, 

 best adapted for the exhibition of the society, and 

 the accommodation of the owners of stock who may 

 attend. 



The spirit manifested by the citizens of Utica, was 

 most gratifying to the officers of the society, and 

 gives assurance that everything desirable to make 

 the approaching fair one of the most splendid ex- 

 hibitions ever witnessed in this State, will be done 

 so far as the citizens of Utica are concerned. 



We will not for a moment doubt that the farmers 

 of Oneida, and of the adjoining counties, will pre- 

 sent an exhibition of their stock, dairies, and domes- 

 tic manufactures worthy, not only of Central New 

 York, but of the Empire State. 



The additional premiums offered for samples of 

 the best 10 dairies in any one county, it is believed, 

 will secure an exhibition from the best dairy coun- 

 ties, more extensive than has ever before been seen 

 at the Fairs of the Society. 



Permit me to say to the citizens of Utica, that 

 there is much labor to be done, to have every thing 

 in order for the Fair. Your enterprise and your en- 

 ergy are known and appreciated. If you would ex- 

 cel Poughkeepsie, let me say, it will all need to be 

 put in requisition. That it will be so, I shall not 

 doubt, unless reluctantly convinced when our 

 grounds shall be thrown open to the thousands who 

 will be in attendance on the 16th and 17th of Sep- 

 tember. 



Persons desirous of becoming members of the So- 

 ciety, and of competing for the premiums, are re- 

 quested to enter their names at the stage office of J. 

 Butterfield k Co., adjoining the National Hotel, 

 Genesee-street, Utica. The fees for membership 

 are $1 . 



STOCKTON BUTTER. 

 We hope the time is not far distant when the 

 Stockton butter will bo as much sought for in the 

 eastern cities, as the far-famed Goshen butter now 

 is. It is but a few years since the farmers of Stock- 

 ton, N. Y., began to turn their attention to this im- 

 portant subject. We were informed a while since, 

 by one of the best manufacturers of butter in Stock- 

 ton, that the first that was put up in firkins, for 

 transportation, was put up by himself, not more 

 than six or eight years ago. Now it is a staple pro- 

 duction of that county, and in that little town alone 

 we were informed by a dairyman the other day, 

 there are one thousand six hundred and twelve cotes, 

 most of which were kept for diary purposes. 



There are two diaries with fifty cows each, some 

 four or five with forty cows each, and a number 

 with from twenty to forty cows each. The average 

 amount of butter produced to each cow, is about 

 150 lbs., in some seven or eight months, and about 

 350 to 400 lbs. of cheese during the four to five 

 months in which they manufacture that article. — 

 Thus it will be seen thrtt the manufacture of butter 

 and cheese makes an important item in the products 

 of one small town. Eastern dealers in such articles, 

 who buy the Stockton manufactured butter, will 

 probably get a good article. The dairymen there 

 have been successful at our Agricultural fairs, and 

 we tnist the products of their dairies will be famed 

 in the eastern market ere long. — Fredonia JV. Y. 

 Censor. 



AGRICULTURE AS A PROFESSION. 



The pursuit of agriculture is almost universally 

 considered as merely a profession of commerce or 

 trade, the farmer looking wholly to its pecuniary 

 results. In a trading community, pecuniary consid- 

 erations are always liable to control the judgment, 

 and predominate over every other consideration.— 

 Where the means are limited, and the farm must be 

 cultivated as the only source of subsistence, pecun- 

 iary returns must, of course, be the main object. — 

 Where, as in England, the cultivator is not the 

 owner of the soil, but the annual rent must be paid, 

 and he is liable, as in most cases, to be compelled to 

 quit his occupancy at the pleasure or the caprice of 

 his landlord, farming must be conducted merely as 

 a matter of business, and there is no inducement to 

 pursue the profession as matter of taste or senti- 

 ment. In many cases in my own country, it must, 

 of necessity, be followed wholly as a means of sup- 

 port and of profit, and in some cases as a struggle 

 for life. 



But there are innumerable other cases, in which 

 men have the power, under the most favorable cir- 

 cumstances, and I am most anxious they should have 

 likewise the disposition to devote themselves to it 

 as an elegant and liberal profession, worthy of a 

 mind gifted even with the finest taste, and enriched 

 by the highest cultivation. The United States pre- 

 sent not many examples of very great wealth, at 

 least when estimated by the standard of wealth 

 which prevails in England, where, indeed, are to be 

 found individual accumulations which distance all the 

 dreams of oriental magnificence. But, on the oth- 

 er hand, no country upon the globe, and no condi- 

 tion of things since the establishment of society, 

 ever presented more favorable opportunities than the 

 United States for any one, by active and wholsomo 

 industry and a proper frugality, to acquire a compe- 

 tence, and that respectable independence, in which, 

 with a full supply for the necessities of life, and an 

 abundant provision for its comforts, there will be 

 found within reach as many of the elegancies and 

 ornaments, and luxuries of life, as a well-disciplin- 

 ed and healthful state of mind can require. I have 

 seen too, frequently, such beautiful examples in our 

 c^imtry villages, and scattered over several parts of 

 a land m many respects favored by Heaven above ev- 

 ery other, not to be deeply impressed with a condi- 

 tion of life, which, where its blessings are properly 

 and gratefully appreciated, seems to leave a little 

 more on earth for a rational and reflecting, a benevo- 

 lent and truly religious mind to ask. Happy is it . 

 where its waters are not poisoned by an insatiate 

 avarice, nor disturbed and thrown into confusion by 



