458 MONTHLY JOURNAL OF AGRICULTURE. 



our own Press is silent, can we expect that of other classes to proclaim our 

 rights ? For one, while we can hold a pen, humble and powerless though it be, 

 as long as one dollar is given to sharpen the Sword, we will demand another to 

 brighten the course of the Plow. 



At 7 o'clock P. M. the Society again convened at the Assembly Chamber, when IWr. 

 Johnson, the Secretary, read the following abstract of the Reports of the Committees to 

 award Premiums, as follows : 



On Farms— 1. John Delafield, Oakland, Seneca Co., $50. 0. Peter Crispel, Jn, Hurley, Ulster Co., $30. 

 3. James Pendil, Batavia, Genesee Co., $20. 4. Lucas V. V. Schuyler, Watervliet, set Transactions. 



Draining— B. D. Spoor, Troy, $10. E. J. Woolsey, Long lelaud, set Transactions. E. C. Bliss, West- 

 field, Chautauque, Transactions 1846. 



Farm Buildings— BweWing—yhs. Sanford Howard, Albany, $20. Piggery— S. VV. Jewett, Weybridge, 

 Vt, $10. 



Cheese Dairies— Aionzo L. Fish, Cedarville, Herkimer Co., Statement of Experiments, <tc., $50. New- 

 berry Bronson, Warsaw. Wyoming Co., $20. 



Butter Dairies— B. A. Hall, New- Lebanon, Columbia, $.50. 



Field Crops— Spring Wheat— 2. Robert Eells, Westmoreland, Oneida Co., 20J bushels per acre, $8. In- 

 dian Corn — George Vail, Troy, (i7 bushels per acre, .f 20. Barley — Benj. Enos, Ue Kuyter, Madison Co., 39 

 bushels per acre, $10. Oats— 1. Charles W. Eells, Kirkland, Oneida Co., 80 buehels per acre, $10. 2. Ben- 

 jamin Enos, De Ruyter, 71 bushels per acre, $8. Beans— E. C. Bhs.", Wcstfield, 31i bushels per acre, $8. 

 Flax — Wm. Newcomb, Pittstown, Rensselaer Co., $5. E. C Bliss, Westfield, Transactions. 



Root Crops — Potatoes— 1. Daniel Newcomb, Pittstown. Rensselaer Co., 405 bushels per acre, $10. 2, 

 Martin Springer, Brunswick, Rensselaer Co., 369 bushels per acre, $8. Ruta-bagas— 1. Joseph Hastings, 

 Brunswick, Rensselaer Co.. 1,317 bushels per acre, $10. Carrots— 1. Wm. Risley, Fredonia, Chautauque 

 Co., 557 bushels on half an acre, $8. , 



Ezperiviciits—W . D. Osborn, Port Byron, Cayuga Co., on 3 acrfls planted with corn, 1846, $20. 1st acre 

 manured with 10 cords barn-yard manure before com— no manure on any part Ibis year- Oats, 1847, 90f 

 bushels per acre. 2d acre, 1846, Corn, without manuie— Oats, 1847, 881 bushels per acre. 3d acre ma- 

 nured with 8 cords of manure and 4 loads of muck, 1846— Oats, 1847,112 bushels per acre. 



J^rai'is- Charles Lee, Penn Yan, Yates Co., 2d premium for a seedling winter apple, " Waggener Apple,"' 

 $5 and Downing's common edition of " Fruits and Fruit-Trees." 



After the reading of the above, the President of the Society, Mr. Vail, delivered his 

 Valedictory Address, which presented a flattering and encouraging view of the progress of 

 the Society during past years, and of its prospects for the future. A unanimous vote of 

 thanks was presented to Mr. Vail, and a copy of the Address solicited for the use of the 

 Society. 



On concluding his remarks, Mr. Vail introduced the President elect, Mr. Allen, who in 

 a brief and appropriate speech, returned thanks to the Society, and signified his acceptance 

 of the office. 



Mr. BuRCHARD offered some Resolutions in relation to the importance of Education to 

 the farmer, and expressive of the advantage which would result by the establishment of 

 Agricultural Schools in connection with Experimental Farms, which were unanimously 

 adopted. The Society then adjourned. 



January 21. — The Executive Committee met at the rooms of the Society at 10 o'clock — 

 the President, L. F. Allen, Esq., in the Chair. Present, Messrs. Sherwood, Vail, Pren- 

 tice, Johnson, Viele, Tucker, Stevens, Ayrault, King, Mclntyre, Emmons, Rathbone, and 

 several gentlemen from different parts of the State. 



A Committee of gentlemen fiom Buffalo having given the usual guaranty that the ex- 

 penses attendant on holding the next Annual Exhibition should be paid by the citizens of 

 BufTalo, it was, on motion of Mr. Sherwood, 



Resolved. That the next Fair and Cattle Show of the New- York State Agricultural Society be held at the 

 City of Buffalo, on the 12th, 13th and 14th days of September next. 



The Executive Committee were occupied during the day in the preparation of the Prize 

 List, which we hope to be able to present, complete, to our readers next month. 



How would it do, for the year that the State Society holds its exhibition in a 

 County, to have its funds for that year added to those of the State, or go to help 

 the town to pay expenses, and let one Show do for both ? 



May we trust that ex-President Vail's Address has demonstrated a steadily 



increasing average product in all the great staples from the cultivated lands of 



the State, since the formation of the New-York State Agricultural Society, of 



which this 26th of February, 1848, happens to be the Fifty-sixth Anyiivcrsary ! 



In 1845 the average crops throughout the State were reported at — 



Wheat 14 Corn 2.5 Beang 10 Turnips 88 



Rye 91 Potatoes 90 Barl-^y 16 Flax lbs. 100 



Oats 26 Peas 15 Buckwheat 14 



Can any one inform us what they were, probablv, in 1796, and decennially since ? 



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