1855. 



NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



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The Trcasrirer^s account shows that the receipts 

 of the Society, for 1853, were $12,684, and that 

 after paying current expenses, premiums, &c., 

 they have a balance of $802,00 to curry to next 

 year's account. 



The remainder of the volume is occupied with 

 abstracts of the reports of the several county soci- 

 eties, and extracts from the addresses delivered at 

 their annual meetings, thus bringing before us 

 the condition and doings of the several counties in 

 one connected view. We wish we had space to 



make copious extracts from several of the county 

 reports; — but we can only commend them 

 to all who are so fortunate as to obtain the vol- 

 ume. The only thing which we especially regret 

 in the volume is the absence of the labors of Dr. 

 Salisbury. We trust the managers of the Soci- 

 ety do not consider that there is no more occa- 

 sion for his analytical services. The good which 

 he has so ably commenced, should, under their 

 auspices, be carried forward unto perfection. 



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GIFFORD MORGAN COLT, VERMONT. 



This engraving represents the four years old 

 Gifford Morgan Colt, exhibited at the Vermont 

 State Fair at Brattleboro', September, 1854, and 

 received the first premium of $15, in the class of 

 Woodbury Morgans, from four to seven years old 

 horses. 



He is a very dark chestnut color, and is a de- 

 scendant of the old Gifford and Green Moiuitaiu 

 Morgans, and is claimed on the part of liis own- 

 ers to be the most thorough-bred Morgan now 

 living of his age. He is a colt of great action, 

 and is considered a very characteristic and fiivor- 

 able specimen of the breed, in all particulars. 

 His last year's colts boar a strong rest^mblance 

 to the old Morgan family. He is owned by J. II. 

 Peters & Co., Bradford, Orange County, Vt. 



For all uses, the farm, the road-team, or the 

 carriage, we do not believe the Morgans, as a 

 breed, are excelled by any other. Their carriage 

 is frequently lofty, and often very graceful. Their 

 temper is docile, so that boys and women may 

 easily manage them when well broken, and their 



; powers of endurance, even as roadsters, almoet 

 j beyond belief. We scarcely can look upon one 

 ,of the best of his type without a sort of fascina- 

 tion. 



PHOTOGRAPHIC COUNTERFEITING. 



A Cincinnati gentleman writing to the New Yorli 

 Tribune, describing the restilts of some experi- 

 ments which have i)con made in that city, by Mr. 

 Fontayne, a dagucrreotypist, relative to tlie art 

 of photographic counterfeiting. Tiie counterfeit 

 notes, he sa^-s, manufactured in this manner, far 

 jSurpass in tlie perfection of tlieir details any thing 

 of the kind which has ever been done by the old 

 method of engraving. Every line and every 

 speck is accurately copied, so that when the 

 photographs are taken upon tiie proper bank note 

 paper, they defy detection, either by the unaided 

 eye or Ijy tlie microscope. A number of liills, 

 copied in this Avay by Mr. Fontayne, Avere pre- 

 sented at various l>ankH in the city of Cincinnati, 

 and in every case they were pronounced, after 

 careful inspection, to be genuine. 



By this newly-discovered system of pliotogra- 

 phy, all kinds of ordinary writing or printing 



