1847. 



GENESEE FARMER. 



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New York State Agricultural Society. 



At thft regular Monthly Meeting of the Executive Commit- 

 tee of the N. Y. State Agricultural Society, held at their 



rooms in Albany, on the 10th day of December, 1846, 



the following business was transacted : 



Present — 3Iessrs. Sherwood, Vail, Prentice, Tucker end 

 M'Intyre. 



The minutes of the last meeting being read, were ap- 

 proved. The following resolutions were passed: 



On motion of 3Ir. Vail, of Rensselaer, 



Resolved, That the Committee on loaning the surplus 

 funds of the Society, appointed at the last meeting, (hav- 

 ing reported in p:irt,) be continued with same power. 



On motion of Mr. Tucker, of Albany, 



Resolved, 'i'hat the thanks of the Society be presented to 

 Lewis F. Allen, Esq., for a copy of his "American 

 Herd Book," presented to the Society. 



The Committee then took up the Farming Committees 

 on awards at the Annual Meeting in January next, and 

 made the following appointments: 



On Farms— -Dt. J. P. Beckman, of Columbia County ; 

 Anthony \'an Bergen, Green; \Vm. Fuller, Onondaga. 



E.vper/meiits and Essays — A. B. Allen, New York; Prof. 

 Emmons, Albany; Sandford Howard, Albany. 



Designs for Farm Dwellings— Geo. Geddes, Onondaga; 

 Jno. M'Donald M'Intyre, Albany; Ebenezer Mack, Tomp- 

 kins. 



Cheese Dairy — Benj. P. Johnson, Oneida; Thos. Hill- 

 house, Albany ;Ira Hopkins, Cayuga. 



Butler Dairy — Zadoc Pratt, Greene; Robert Dennison, 

 Orange; E. W. Baseman, Cayuga. 



Selectimi of Fruits — L. F. Allen, Erie; V. A. Storms, 

 TVew York; D. A. Thompson, Tompkins; J. C. Piatt, Clin- 

 ton; Prof. J. Jackson, Schenettada. 



VV^Iieat, Barley, Rye and Oa'*— Daniel Lee, Rochester: 

 Squire M. Brown, Onondaga; John Wilkinson, Dutchess. 



hidian Corn, Corn Fodder and Peas— Asa. Fish, VV'ash- 

 inton; Benj. Enos, Madison; C. S. Button, Wayne. 



Root Crops — Caleb N. Bement, Albany; Jno. C. Math- 

 er, Rensselaer; S. I>. Burchard, Madison. 



Hops, Fia^r, and Broom Corn — Sam'l Cheever, Sarato- 

 ga; John Rankin, Canandaigua; Justus Harwood, Albany- 



Tohacco, Cabbage, Clove,- and Timoth>,—E. Marks, On- 

 ondaga; G. V. Sacket, Cayuga; John Walsh, Albany. 



On motion of the President, 



Resolved, That Messrs. Prentice, Tucker and M'Intyre 

 be a Committee to make all arrangements for the Annual 

 Meeting of the Society in January. 



The Annual Meeting of the Society will be held in the 

 city of Albany, on Wednesday and Thursday, the 20t]i and 

 21st days of January next, commencing at 10 o'clock, A. 

 M. Farmers and the public generally are invited to attend. 



An extra meeting of the Executive Committee will be 

 held at the Rooms of the Society, on Tuesday, the 19th 

 day of Januaty, at 10 o'clock A. IM. 



■The Committee then adjourned. 



Wayne Agricultural Society. 



At the Annual Meeting of the Wayne County 

 Agricultural Society, held at Thayer's Hotel, in 

 the village of Clyde, on the 9th inst., the follow- 

 ing persons were chosen officers of said Society 

 for the ensuing year : 



President — Reuben H. Foster, of Lyons. 



Vice Presidents — Joseph Watson, Galen; Joel Hall, Ma- 

 rion; James H. Ferris, Butler ; W^m. P. Nottingham, Pal- 

 myra; Henry Shaver, jr., .Arcadia; Jedediah Wilder, Hu- 

 ron; W. D. Cook, Sodus. 



E. N. Thomas, Rose, Recording Secretary. 



J. J. Thomas, Macedon, Coiresponding Secretary. 



H. G. Dickinson, Lyons, Treasurer. 



Executive Committee — Samuel E. Hudson, Palmyra; Tru- 

 man Heminway, do.; Wm. R. Smith, Macedon: Aaron 

 Griswold, Galen; A. G. Percey, Lyons; Elizur Flint, Rose. 



The Society adjourned to meet at Landon's Hotel, in Ly- 

 ons, on the second Wednesd ly in March ne.xt, at 10 o'clock 

 A. U,— Clyle Eagle. 



To Destroy Lice on Cattle. 



Mr. Editor : — Having seen in the Genesee 

 Farmei-, Cultivator, and other publications, ma- 

 ny remedies (such as sand, wood ashes, water 

 from boiled potatoes, soft soap, pork pickle, 

 &c.,) to destroy lice on cattle, I beg leave, as a 

 subscriber to your valuable paper, to otfer one 

 of my own invention — and one which, from my 

 personal observation, has proved more effectual 

 than either or the whole of the above named 

 remedies combined together. 



It is simply this : Make a wasli witli hot wa- 

 ter and common clay, about as thick as common 

 porridge, select a warm day, and wash the ani- 

 mals all over, — taking care to rub it into the 

 hair well with a woollen rag or cloth. 



HosEA Straight. 



Williamson, N. Y., Dec. 1846. 



Guide in Buying a Horse. 



A correspondent of the Prairie Farmer, con- 

 trary to old maxims, undertakes to judge the 

 character of a horse by outward appearances, 

 and offers the follov/ing suggestions, as the re- 

 sult of his close observation and long experi- 

 ence : 



If the color be light sorrel or chestnut, his feet, legs and 

 face white, these are marks of kindness. 



If he is broad and full between the eyes, he may be de- 

 pended on as a horse of good sense, and capable of being 

 trained to any thing. 



As respects suchhorses, the more kindly you treat them, 

 the better you will be treated in return. Nor vvil^. a horse 

 of that description stand the whip if well fed. 



If you want a safe horse, avoid one that is dish-faced; he 

 may he so far gentle as not to scare, but he will have too 

 much go-ahead in him to be safe for every body. 



If you want a fool, but a horse of great bottom, get a deep 

 bay, with not a white hair about him; if his face is a little 

 dished, so much the worse. Let no man ride such a horse 

 who is not an adept in riding — they are always tricky and 

 unsafe. 



If you want a horse that will never give out, never buy 

 a large overgrown one. A black horse cannot stand heat, 

 nor a white one cold. 



If you want a gentle horse, get one with more or less 

 white about him — the more the better. A spotted one is 

 preferable. Many suppose that the parti-colored horses be- 

 longing to circuses, shows, &:c., are selected for their oddi- 

 ty. But the selection thus made is on account of their great 

 docility and gentleness. 



Beer Making in England. — During the 

 first six months of the present year duty w-as paid 

 on 22,682,823 bushels of grain (mostly barley) 

 for malting in England. The amount on which 

 duty was paid last year during the same period 

 was 20,165,823 bushels, showing an increase of 

 some 12 per cent. It seems ahtiost incredible 

 that over forty million bushels of grain should be 

 annually malted in England, mainly for making 

 beer ; while the official returns before us show 

 that no less than 23,682,715 gallons of spirits 

 are annually manufactured in the United King- 

 dom. The revenue derived from the latter du- 

 ring the last fiscal year was £5,749,794 ; or some 

 $25,000,000. 



