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The Horse. 



Vol. XII. 



For the best pair of Ducks, $2. 

 For the next best do. $1. 



Agricoltoral lMPLSMENT3.-»For the best Plough, 

 the merits thereof to be decidedliy trial, $10. 



for the next best do. Colman's Tour. 



For the best Drill Machine, $4. 



For the next best do. $-2. 



For the best Straw or Hay Cutter, $4. 



For the next best do. $2 



For the best Horse Power Straw or Stalk Cutter, $6. 



For the next best do. Colman's Tour. 



For the best Corn Sheller, $4. 



For the next best do. ^2. 



For the best Wheat Fan, $4. 



For the next best do. $2. 



For the best display of Agricultural Implements, ftlO. 



For the next best do. Colman's Tour. 



Suitable premiums will be given for any improved 

 Implement of merit, not included in the above. 



The Ploughs intended for trial must be at the Exhi- 

 bition during the whole time. Premiums will be 

 awarded to the best ploughmen: 



For the best, $.5. 



For the next best, Colman's Tour. 



A0R1CULTUR.4L PRODUCE.— Fur the best five pounds 

 of fresh butter, a silver Butter Knife, value #5. 



For the second best do. Colman's Tour. 



For ihe third best do. $2. 



For the best Firkin or Jar of Salted or Preserved 

 Butter, not less than 20 lbs., a Silver Butter Knife, 

 value $5. 



For Ihe next best do. Colman's Tour. 



For the best sample bushel of Red Wheat, $3. 



For the next best do. $1. 



For the best do. White Wheat, $3. 



For the next best do. tl- 



For the best sample bushel of Eye, $2. 



For the next best do. $1. 



For the best sample bushel of Flint Corn, $2. 



For the next best do. ftl. 



For the best do. Gourd Seed Corn, $2. 



For the next best do $1. 



For the best do. Mixed Corn, $2. 



For the next best do. $1. 



For the best sample bushel of Oats, $2. 



For the next best do. $1. 



For the best sample bushel of Potatoes, $2. 



For the next best do. $1. 



For the best bushel of Sweet Potatoes raised in this 

 State, $2. 



Fur the next best do. $1. 



For the best display of Agricultural Produce gene- 

 rally, $8. 



For the next best do. Colman's Tour. 



A suitable premium will be given for any new va- 

 riety of Grain of improved quality. 



A statement of the mode and manner of making and 

 preserving the different kinds of Butter, will be re- 

 quired of competitors. The preserved or salted butler 

 must have been put up at least two months previous 

 to the Exhibition. 



M. S, Powell, Seedsman, 23 Market street, above 

 Front, Philadelphia, will lake charge of any samples 

 of Seeds intended for the Exhibition. 



A Ploughing Match, for the trial of Ploughs and 

 Ploughing, will lake place on the second day of the 

 Exhibition, the 15th of October, at nine o'clock. 



tEr" Stock entered for the foregoing Premiums can- 

 not compete for others. 



No animal that has previously taken the Society's 

 first premium, will be allowed to compete in the same 

 class. 



Ample evidence will be required as regards the pedi- 

 gree, age and character, of all stock entered for pre- 

 mium. 



All premiums uncalled for within six months from 

 the lime of holding the Exhibition, will be considered 

 as donations to the Society. 



The Judges are authorised to withhold premiums 

 where the object is not entitled to distinction; and 

 where but one of a cla.^s is exhibited, they will award 

 such premium as they think it merits. Those persons 

 who intend bringing animals for competition, must 



nform theCommitteeof Arrangement before 10 o'clock 

 on the first day of the Exhibition. 



Premiums to be confined to animals owned exclu- 

 sively in this State, except "here assurance is given 

 that they will be allowed to remain here at least nine 

 months. 



All Stock, &c , contributed, must remain on the 

 ground during the two days of Exhibition. 



ROBERT T. POTTS, 

 ISAAC W. ROBERTS, 

 DENNIS KELLY, 

 AARON CLE.MENT, 

 DAVID GEORGE, 

 DAVID LANDRETH, 

 GEORGE BLIGHT, 

 MANUEL EYRE, 

 A. L. FLWYN, 

 A. S. ROBERT.-!, 

 Committee of Arrangement. 

 July 22, 1847. 



The Horse. — I will state a few thing? 

 that I have learned, and they may be of 

 benefit to your readers. A horse that is 

 driven on hard roads is liable to get stiff" in 

 the joints. In 1833 I had an animal, which 

 after driving- three or four days, got quite 

 lame. An old Baltimore teamster told me 

 to wash the mare's legs in a tolerably salt 

 brine, which was done accordingly, three 

 times a day for the balance of the journey. 

 The stiffness disappeared in a few days, and 

 I drove the mare 1,400 miles afterward, and 

 there was no more trouble on that account. 

 What pleased me most was, the mare had a 

 very poor foot to Viold a shoe, when I started. 

 It wasvery brittle and hard. It would break 

 out when a nail was put in. But it grew 

 together at every shoeing. A blacksmith 

 in New England remarked to me that her 

 foot had a singular appearance; where he 

 pared it was soft and tough. I account for 

 it in this way; salt will attract moisture 

 from the atmosphere, which keeps the foot 

 moist all the time; and salt has nearly the 

 same effect that grease has on a fc^t or a 

 piece of timber. The drippings from salt 

 on a floor if continued long, cannot be got 

 off"; the wood becomes moist and tough, and 

 so with a horse's foot. After washing the 

 legs, turn up the horse's foot, clean the bot- 

 tom, pour the hollow full of brine and hold 

 fur a few minutes to soak the bottom. The 

 practice of rasping the foot all over to tough- 

 en it is abominable. — Farmer <!" Gardener. 



To Prevent Lamps from Smoking. — 



Soak the wick in strong vinegar, and dry 

 it well before you use it; it will then burn 

 both sweet and pleasant, and give much 

 satisfaction for the trifling trouble in pre- 

 paring it. 



Don't give your boys the worst tools and 

 then scold because they cannot do as much 

 as men. 



