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GENESEE FARMER. 



Oct. 



Fair of the State Agricultural Society. 



The Annual Fair of this Society took place 

 at Auburn, agreeable to previous arrangements. 

 In several respects the exhibition was inferior to 

 that of the two or three preceding years. This 

 remark aj)plies to the products of the Dairy, 

 and the show of Durham cattle. The exhibition 

 of Horses, Sheep and Swine was only passably 

 good. Messrs. Sherwood and Wadsworth had 

 each a splendid team of ten yoke of working 

 oxen on the ground. 



In Farming Implements the display exceedec 

 any thing ever before witnessed at a State Fair 

 The demand for good tools of every kind, is, we 

 are happy to perceive, largely on ihe increase. 

 We must w^rite an article on the waste of strength, 

 and the loss of time and money incurred by using 

 bad farm implements. 



Floral Hall, and all the fixtures erected for 

 the exhibition of Fruits, Vegetables, Flowers, 

 Domestic Manufactures, &c., were superior in 

 workmanship and taste, as well as convenience, 

 to any before made on similar occasions. Tiie 

 display of these articles was very creditable, as 

 a whole — while there were specimens of needle 

 work of extraordinary beauty. 



After all, the most extraordinary thing to be 

 seen at these State Fairs is the immense number 

 of people tliat attend them. No passion is so 

 strong as that of sight-seeing; and no business 

 equals that which sells amusements to gratify this 

 morbid appetite. Had there been twenty Cir- 

 cuses, instead of two at the Fair, all would have 

 been full. 



The citizens of Auburn generally deserve 

 much credit for their efforts to accommodate the 

 unnumbei ed thousands that thronged their village, 

 with lodgings and food. In hundreds of instan- 

 ces these efforts were attended by no small per- 

 sonal sacrifice, for no compensation was charged 

 or received. The keepers of public houses, 

 however, did not forget to charge a round sum 

 lor whatever they furnished. There was much 

 cause for complaint in that regard at UtiCa last 

 year; and while we exerted ourselves to have 

 the Fair this year at Auburn, at the meeting of 

 the Society last winter, we did hope tliat the Inn- 

 keepers of that town would give the public no 

 just cause of complaint. Before the next Fair is 

 located — which will be done in January — we 

 shall insist that ten or twelve keepers of public 

 houses at the place selected pledge themselves 

 not to exact fi-om their guests at the Fair more 

 than ordinary prices. There is always a fierce 

 scramble at Albany to get the Fair at difterent 

 places, apparently for no other ])urpose than to 

 make money in the operation. This mercenary 

 system, which has fastened itself on our great 

 Agricultural Jubilees, must be severed, or our 

 rural exhibitions will soon become a by-word, 

 and as odious as they are now popular. 



Having the good of the great farming inter- 



est at heart, we must notice another capital er- 

 ror : It is the constant practice of getting Lmo- 

 ijers to delivej- the annual addresses before the 

 State Society. Is it true that not one man among 

 the four hundred thousand farmers in the Stale 

 can be found, capable of making an Agriculfural 

 Address? 



Mr. Stevens, of Albany, is an excellent law- 

 yer, an unexceptionable man, and made a good 

 speech of its kind. But it cost him time and la- 

 bor, as he assui-ed us, worth to him in his pro- 

 fession some three or four hundred dollars. We 

 hope this practice will be discontinued. 



Gcunty Fairs. 



We have favorable accounts of the Exhibitions 

 which have been held in Living.ston, Jefferson, 

 Madison, Oneida, Erie and other counties, during 

 the past month — and regret that we have not 

 room for details in this number. 



We trust the Fairs to be held the present 

 month will be well attended, and prove highly 

 creditable to the Societies and Counties. Let 

 rack Society strive to excel, and all will have 

 good exhibitions. A good article on the subject 

 of Agricultural Fairs will be found on page 229, 

 Although more particularly addressed to the cit- 

 izens of Monroe County, 3et it will apply well 

 to those of other counties in which exhibitions 

 are to be held. We annex a list of Fairs for 

 the month, so far as heard from — regretting that 

 we have not been furnished with information 

 from oilier counties in which Ag. Societies are 

 in successful operation : m. 



Allegany " Angelica, Oct. 1 end 2. 



(ienesee " Batavia, Oct. 8 and 9. 



Monroe " Rochester, Oct. 15 and IC. 



Niag-ara " Lockporl, Oct. 7, 8. 



Ontario " ("anandaigna, Oct. 13, 14. 



Onondaga " Sjraciise, Oct. 1, 2. 



Orleans " Albion, Oct. 1, 2. 



Otsego " Cooperstown, Oct. 1, 2. 



Seneca " Waterloo, Oct. 22, 23. 



Wayne " Clyde, Oct. 1, 2. 



Yates, " Penn Yan, Oct. 1. 

 Dk. Lef, is to ik-livcr the Annual Address before the (len- 



I'see Co. Ag. Society, on the 8th inst. — first day i>f the Fair. 



To Correspondents. 



Co.M.AU.McATiONS have been received since our 

 last from Wm. Garbutt, H., A sincere Friend 

 and Lover of Social Intercourse, D. A. Ogden, 

 James Putnam, A. G. M., Andrew J. Cook, R. 

 J. Jones, Selh H. Higby, L., E. L. 



Books, Pamphlets, &:c., have been received 

 from various soui'ces — for notices of which see 

 other pages. — 



Articles intended for publication in the Far- 

 mer should be accompanied by the name of the 

 writer — although only a signature be attached 

 when published. Our Ea.st Winfield and Web- 

 ster correspondents are informed that their essays 

 are inadmissible, because anonymous — and for 

 other cogent reasons. "A word to the wise." 



