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DEVOTED TO 

 AGRICULTURE, HORTICULTURE, AND RURAL AND DOMESTIC AFFAIRS. 



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



Vol. X No. 4.] 



11th mo. (November) 15th, 1845. 



[Whole No. 130. 



PUBLISHED MONTHLY, 



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



EDITOR AND PROPRIETOU, 



No. 50 North Fourth Street, 



PHILADELPHIA. 



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



Forjhe Farmers' Cabinet. 



Exhibition and Cattle Show of the Ches 

 ter and Delaware County Agricultural 

 Society. 



The Exhibition of this Society came off 

 on the 7th inst., at Westchester. Having 

 been seven years in operation, and being 

 composed of practical farmers, in one of the 

 best and most celebrated agricultural dis- 

 tricts in the Union, it was an interesting 

 fact to find by the very large number of 

 farmers present, that the benefits of these 

 associations are appreciated here as well as 

 in other places, and that they do not depend 

 for success, as has been asserted, on the 

 efforts of fancy and amateur fanners in the 

 vicinity of large towns, or the transient en- 

 thusiasm of opulent citizens, who farm on 

 paper and theorize in broadcloth and velvet, 

 about ploughing, planting, and improved 

 breeds of live stock. 



The exhibition just closed is certainly 

 highly creditable to the public spirit of the 



Cab.— Vol. X.— No. 4. 



I farmers and farms in that section. The 

 country within a circle of a few miles round 

 Westchester has long been considered un- 

 rivalled for the richness of its pastures, and 

 here of course, must be the home for the 

 various improved breeds of stock, and where 

 must be brought out the peculiar excel- 

 lencies of eaci). Importations of Durham 

 cows and bulls. Southdown and Bakewell 

 sheep, have been made here within a few 

 years, which have greatly improved the na- 

 tive stock of the two counties, and full-bloods 

 were shown, descendants of "His Grace" 

 and " Yorkshireman," worthy to compete 

 with any others for size, handling, neatness 

 of form, and other valuable points. The 

 premiums on full-bloods were divided be- 

 tween S. S. Woodward, George Brinton, 

 John Worth, J. Burton, Abner Hoopes, and 

 Paschall Morris. The latter exhibited his 

 celebrated milking cow, " Imported Bessy," 

 now somewhat in years, but showing in her 

 beautiful head and neck, prominent eye, 

 rather flattened rib, light hind quarter, 

 and enormous milk veins, her deep capacity 

 for the pail. All the premium animals 

 seemed to be descended from one or the 

 other of thefe two celebrated and superior 

 bulls. Of native home raised stock there 

 was a considerable number, both of steers, 

 oxen, heifers, and cows, showing the great 

 advantages of a cross between the Durham 

 bull and good common cows. Such a cross 

 is within the reach of all ; and while the 

 improved carcass was very obvious, it was a 



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