

VOL. VI. 



ROCHESTER, NEW YORK. OCTOBER, 1845. 



NO. 10. 



PUBLISH ED MO NTHLY. 



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STATE AGRICULTURAL FAIR. 



If the readers of this paper expect the editor to 

 give a full and labored account of this great Rural 

 Festival, they will be disappointed. We have had 

 too much to do in a business way, in connection with 

 tha proceedings of the N. Y. State Agricultural So- 

 ciety, for the last week, to command a moments 

 time for taking private notes of the many things 

 worthy of public attention. Taking the exhibition 

 as a whole, it excelled any previous one made in this 

 state ; and Mr. Quincy (who is a judge of such 

 matters in Massachusetts,) said that this was the 

 hvgest and most attractive Fair ever witnessed in 

 America. 



From the number of badges and tickc'-s sold, we 

 estimated the whole number of persons that entered 

 the gates, at 45,000, in the two days. Without go- 

 ing into detail?:, the reader shall know in brief what 

 most inteiested the writer of this : It was the fact 

 that hundreds and perhaps thons mds of plain common 

 farmers, their wives and daughters, came forward as 

 successful competitors for nearly all of the $3000 a- 

 warded in premiums. 



The lively interest taken in the agricultural pro- 

 gress of the year, by this class of our fellow citizens, 

 inspires hope and confidence in the minds of those, 

 who are givino- their days, and their nights to the 

 careful study of what will best promote the improve- 

 ment of rural industry in the state of New-York. 

 It is a great mistake to suppose that the extensive 

 operations of our state and county agricultural soci- 

 ties, are carried on without a great deal of effort on 

 the part of the few, who for the sake of the Cause, 

 are willing to take the laboring oar. The officers 

 of the state society for the last three or four years 

 have had abundant reason to rejoice at the signal 

 success which has crowned their gratuitous, patriot- 

 ic and well directed efforts to improve both the soil 

 and its cultivators in the Empire State. That there 

 are no defects in the proceedings of the society is 

 not pretended by any one. It would be strange in- 



deed if among so many committees for judging of dc- 

 mestic animals, the products cf the dairy, of the 

 loom, of farming implemems and domestic manufac- 

 tures, there should be no oversight committed, and 

 no unintentional wrong done to individual merit. In- 

 stances of this kind will occur, and are the subjects 

 of regret to the Executive Committee. 



It is due to Mr. B. P. Johnson, President of the 

 society, to say that much of the good order that 

 prevailed during the excitements of the Fair, is due to 

 his untiring attention to every tHing calculated to pre- 

 serve quiei and harmony. Among the ten.s of thous- 

 ands present, there was no disturbance, and scarcely 

 an intoxicated man to be seen any where in the 

 neighborhood of the exhibition. Mr. J. is a strict 

 temperance man, and ive admired more than tine 

 Durhams, the happy fruits of celebrating a grand 

 State Jubilee on temperance principles. 



The Mayor of the city of Utica, Mr. Wetmore, 

 the slieriffof the county, and the citizens who under- 

 took to be at the expense of fitting up the grounds, 

 acquitted themselves to the admiration, not to say 

 the satisfaction, of all. 



Great credit is due to Dr. A. Thompson, of Auro- 

 ra, for the classical taste and architectural skill dis- 

 played by him in getting up a beautiful "Floral 

 flail," which won the admiration of all visitors. 



At the close of the able address delivered by Mr. 

 Quincy, Hon. John A. King, of Queens Co. of- 

 fered the following resolution, which was unani- 

 mously adopted : 



Resolved, TlinttlieNew York .State Agricultura! Society are un- 

 der great obli<fatioiis to Hon. ,Io»iah Quincy, Jr. for the able and 

 eloquent address tliis day delivered to the ^ araiers of New York, 

 and thai he be requested to furnish the Society with a ropy of the 

 same for publication in the Transactions of Ihe Society. 



On motion of H. S. Randall, of Cortland Co. 



Resolved, That tbe Society are iiulebted to the Mayor and citi- 

 zens of Utica for their spirit and liberality in carryinlr out all the 

 preparatory arrangements for the State Kair, and their hospitality 

 in receiving and entertaining the immense m.illitude, who could 

 not be accommodated in the hotels. 



Resolved, That we tender onr thanks to the ladies and gentle- 

 men of Utica, who gave ns their aid and exertions in preparing 

 and arranging the halls of e.vhibitioii on the show grnnnd. 



Resolved, T\mt we tender the thanks of the Society to Dr. A]ex-. 

 ander Tlioni) son, of Aurora, for his unrequited services prepara- 

 l.iry toatid during the Fair in the direction & arrangements of Floral 

 Hall, the designs and decorations of which elicited the universal 

 adniiration of the thousands in attendanci; at the Fair. 



/v*^so;«e(/, That the Society take great pleasure in testifying to 

 the unremitted efforts of T S, Faxton, J. Butterfield, and the cit- 

 izens of Utica generally, in carrying out mo.et snrcessfnlly the 

 pledge given by the gentlemen named, on behalf of the citizens. . 



Resolved, That we tender ihe thanks of the Society to P. V 

 Kellogg, Sheriff, and to liis deputy Mr. Johnson, and the others ia 

 his employ, for the admirable arrangements by which complete ot-> 

 der was preserved on the ground. 



Rtiolved, That the thanks of the Society are justly due and 



