No. 9. 



Annual Exhibition, JVew Yorh 



277 



26. How much butter and cheese do you 

 make annually, from what number of cows, 

 and what is your mode of manufacture] 



27. How many sheep do you keep? of 

 what breed or breeds are they! How much 

 do they yield per fleece, and what price 

 does the wool briniif] How many of your 

 sheep usually produce lambs, and what 

 number of lambs are annually reared? How 

 much will your sheep or lambs sell for per 

 head to the butcher? 



23. What do you consider the best and 

 cheapest manner of wintering your sheep as 

 to food, watering and shelter? How many 

 in proportion to your flock, if any, do you 

 lose during the winter? 



29. How many swine do you keep, of 

 what breed are they, how do you feed them, 

 at what age do you kill them, and what do 

 they weigh when dressed? 



30. What experiments have you made to 

 show the relative value of potatoes, turnips, 

 and other root crops, compared with Indian 

 corn, or other grain, for feeding animals, 

 either for fattening or for milk? 



FRUIT. 



31. What is the number of your apple 

 trees? Are they of natural or grafted fruit? 

 and chiefly of what varieties? 



32. What number and kind of fruit trees, 

 exclusive of apples, have you? and what are 

 among the best of each kind? 



33. What insects have attacked your 

 trees, and what method do you use to pre- 

 vent their attacks ? 



34. What is your general management of 

 fruit trees? 



35. What other experiments or farm ope- 

 rations have produced interesting or valu- 

 able results? 



FENCES, BUILDINGS, &c. 



36. What is the number, size, and gene- 

 ral mode of construction of your farm build- 

 ings, and their uses? 



37. "What kinds of fences do you con- 

 struct? What is the amount and length of 

 each kind? And their cost and condition? 



38. To what extent are your various farm- 

 ing operations guided by accurate weighing 

 and measuring? And to what degree of 

 minuteness are they registered by daily ac- 

 counts? 



39. Do you keep regular farm accounts? 

 Can you state the annual expense in im- 

 proving your farm, and the income from it, 

 with such precision that you can at the enil 

 of the year, strike an accurate balance of 

 Ihe debt and credit? Would not this prac- 

 tice conduce very much to close observa- 

 tion, careful farming, and in the end, much 



improve our system, as well as better our 



fortune? 



We also find Ihe following: — 



Whereas, the Agricultural Society of the 

 State of New York, has not an experimental 

 farm; and whereas, to some extent, satisfac- 

 tory experiments can be made by iutellio-ent 

 farmers on their own farms, therefore 



Resolved, That the undermentioned list 

 of premiums be offered to induce public spi- 

 rited individuals, to lend their valuable aid 

 in extending the boundaries of accurate ru- 

 ral knowledge. 



Three premiums will be awarded of $30, 

 $20, and $10, in January, 1848, for the best 

 experiment upon a herd of not less than 

 eight cows, to determine the relative advan- 

 tages of soiling, or depasturing milch cows. 

 The experiment to be conducted as follows: 



1st. The experiment must commence on 

 the first day of May, and be continued until 

 the first day of November. 



2nd. Tlie cows to be divided in two lots 

 of four each. One lot to be soiled, the other 

 depastured. Before commencing the expe- 

 riment, each lot must be weighed and the 

 record of the weight returned to the com- 

 mittee. It is necessary that the two lots 

 shall be as near alike in weight and milking 

 properties as possible. 



3rd. The milk of each lot to be weighed 

 separate daily. 



4th. The manure made from those soiled 

 to be ascertained in cords. 



5th. An account to bo kept of the ex- 

 pense of soiling, also detailed statement of 

 the entire management, together with the 

 measurement of the land occupied in soil- 

 ing, and each to be returned to the commit- 

 tee. 



6th. A description and measurement of 

 the land occupied for pasture, also to be 

 made. 



7th. Each lot to be weighed at the con- 

 clusion of the experiment. 



The Agricultural Society of the State of New York 

 is a broad concern. Its means are large— the sphere 

 of its operations are large— and it is, as it professes to 

 be, a State interest. We cannot imagine that it can 

 fail to exert a powerful influence upon the agriculture 

 of that noble State. Its movements must give an im- 

 petus that will be felt throughout her lencth and 

 breadth, and which must widen slill more, those giant 

 trides which have made her population the most nu- 

 netous of any State in the Union, and her prosperity 

 equal to that of the most prosperous. — Ed. 



A GREAT deal of ground will be planted 

 in corn this spring. This is right: it is our 

 staple crop. The demand must be large. 



