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"^^fiRlCAN HERD-BOO^ 



DE VOT ED TO 

 AGRICULTURE, HORTICULTURE, AND RURAL AND DOMESTIC AFFAIRS. 



Perfect Agriculture is the true foundation of all trade and industry.— Liebio. 



Vol. X.— No. 3.1 



10th mo. (October) 15th, 1845. 



[Whole No. 129. 



PUBLISHED MONTHLY, 



BY J O S I A 11 T A T U M, 



EDITOR AND PROPUIETOR, 



No. 50 North Fourth Street, 



PHILADELPHIA. 



Price one dollar per year. — Forconditions see last page. 



Cattle Show and Exhibition of theN. Y. 

 State Agricultural Society at Utica. 



To the Editor of the Farmers' Cabinet : — 



Dkar Sir, — Having' attended this grand 

 Exhibition at Utica, on the 16th, 17th, and 

 18th alt., I snatch a few moments from oner- 

 ous engagements that assert an unrelaxing 

 claim to every effort of my overworked 

 frame, to give a brief outline of the charac- 

 ter and spirit of the agriculturists of New 

 York. How gratifying would it have been 

 to have met at Utica a portion of the sub- 

 stantial farmers of Pennsylvania, looking on 

 and inspecting with me the contributions in 

 every department of husbandry, made by 

 the farmers, their wives and children, to the 

 great Cattle Show and Fair of the New 

 York State Agricultural Society; for then 

 might I hope that such an example and such 

 cheering results would inspire them to rouse 

 up, and in like manner elicit and develope 

 the rich but latent agricultural resources of 

 the Keystone State. Then might I hope 

 Cab.— Vol. X.— No. 3. 



that even before I had shuffled off this mor- 

 tal coil, Lancaster, Reading, Easton, York, 

 jPittsburg, &c., &c., would become the thea- 

 jtres of similar scenes with Albany, Roches- 

 jter, Poughkeepsie, and Utica, exhibiting the 

 jtriumplis of a w«ll directed State policy, an 

 jenlightened and profitable agriculture, and 

 |a spirited and generous yeomanry — but 

 ^clouds and darkness rest upon this hope; 

 ifor while New York leads so gloriously and 

 exhibits such convincing proofs of the wis- 

 [dom and patriotism of her legislation in the 

 encouragement of Agricultural Societies,* 

 Pennsylvania stands spell bound in the toils 

 of party spirit and faction — a spirit which 

 produced corruption and oppression at home 

 through funding and financiering, and the 

 sneers and contempt of those abroad, who 

 loaned the money which politicians made 

 use of to pander to party ascendancy or in- 

 dividual aggrandisement. While Virginia 

 is beginning to awake to a proper sense of 

 the true interests of a State — the promotion 

 of its agriculture — the farmers of Pennsyl- 

 vania drudge on in dogged toil to pay the 

 taxes brought upon them by improvident 

 legislation, which they themselves from 

 time to time sanctioned and sustained, in the 

 spirit of party at the polls. When shall 

 they shake o^ the yoke of faction and party 

 jdiscipline, and eschew tiie intrigues of the 



I * The State of New Vork expends annually, seven 

 to eight thousand dollars upon her Agricultural Socie- 

 ties. 



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