Ameiucan Rkapers at the Worlds Fai^. — We have 

 just received an account of the trial of RlcCoritsick's and 

 llussey's Keapers at London. It will be seen by the follow- 

 ing statement, which we extract from a letter by Horace 

 Greely, published in the Tribune, that the trial was made 

 in, " (Irngaleil, unripe grain," which will account for the fail- 

 ure of llussey'e Machine. We learn that another trial is to 

 be made in ripe grain. 



•' A signal triumph for American ingenuity wan acoorded 

 on Thursday. Mr. .^Ikchi, formerly a London msrchent, 

 having acquired a competence by trade, retired some years 

 since to a farm in Essex, about fo'-ty miles otl", where he is 

 vigorously prosecuting a system of high farming, employing 

 the most elVeilive implements and agencies of all kinds. He 

 annually has a gathering of distinguished farm'^rs and others 

 to inspect his estate and see how his ' book farming' gets on. 

 This festival occured day before yesterday — a sour, dark, 

 drenching day— notwithstanding which nearly two hundred 

 persons w.re present. Among others, several mathines for 

 cuitins grain were exhibited and tested, including two (Hus- 

 sey's and AlcCormick's) from America, and an English one 

 whieh was declared on all hands a mere imitation of Hus- 

 sey'a. iNcither the original n )r the copy, however, appear- 

 ed to have operated to the satisfaction of the assembly, per- 

 haps owing to the badness of the weather and its eflects on 

 the draggled, unripe grain. With ftlcCormick's a very dif- 

 ferent result was obtained. This machine is so well known 

 in our wheat growing districts that I need only remark that 

 it is the same lately ridiculed by one of the great London 

 journals as ' a cross between Asiley's chariot, a treadmill, 

 and a Hying machine,' and its uncouth appearance has been 

 a standing butt for the London reporters at the exhibition. — 

 It was the ready examplar of .\merican dissortion and absur- 

 dity in the domain of art. It came into the field at Mecki's 

 therefore, to confront a tribunal (not the olhcial but the pop- 

 ular) already prepared for its condemnation. Before it stood 

 John Hull, burly, dogged and determined not to be humbug- 

 ged—his judgement made up and his sentence ready to be 

 recorded. Nothing disconcerted the brown, rough, home- 

 spun Yankee in charee jumped on the box, starling the team 

 at a smart walk, setting the blades of the machnie in lively 

 operation, and commenced raking off the grain in sheaf piles 

 ready for bmding, cutting a breadth of nine or ten feet clean- 

 ly and carefully, as fast as a span of horses could comfortably 

 step. There was a moment, and but a moment, of suspense; 

 human prejudice could hold out no longer, and burst after burst 

 of involuntary cheers from the whole crowd proclaimed the 

 triumph of the Yankee ' treadmill.' That triumph has been 

 the leading topic in all agricultural circles. The Times re- 

 port speaks of it as beyond doubt, as placing the harvest ab- 

 solutely under the farmer's control, and as ensuring a com- 

 plete and most auspicious revolution in the harvesting ope- 

 rations of this country. 1 would gladly give the whole ac- 

 couut, which grudgingly toward the inventor, but unquali- 

 fiedly as to the machine, speaks of the latter as ' securing to 

 English farming protection against climate and an economy 

 of labor which must prove of incalculable advantage.' Very 

 well for 'a cross between an Astley's chariot, a Hying ma- 

 chine and a treadmill." 



American Plows in London.— On his arrival in London, 

 our associate, Mr. Barry, found American plows, and other 

 agricultural implements, the subject of ridicule in the Times, 

 and the London press generally. None of the Americans at 

 the exhibition took the least pains to defend them, or to ex- 

 plain their use in any way, appearing perfectly content to 

 hear unjust ridicule and reproach without a word in self-de- 

 fence. In this state of affairs, Mr. B. addressed a letter to 

 the editor of the London Times, explaining the use for which 

 some of our implements, particularly our plows, were de- 

 signed, and claiming that they were in some respects equal, 

 and in others superior, to anything in the exhibition- cheap, 

 simple, and cfTcctually accomplishing the object designed. — 

 On publishing this communication, the editor of the Times 

 remarked that undoubtedly the American plows would be 

 found useful in some cases, and that Englishmen might study 

 their construction with advantage. After this the Times 

 gave up ridiculing American plows. Mr. Barry further 

 recommended our one horse plows and cultivators to nur- 

 serymen, for culture between nursery rows ; and before he 



left could have sold a large number, had they been in Lon- 

 don, particularly to English and Scotch nurserymen. A 

 trial of the American and foreign plows was made al)iiul the 

 £Oth of July, anil we give the result as reporle.l by Grfely: 



" Within the last few days, a very decided and pr.uifying 

 change has taken place in the current of opinion lieie with 

 regard to American invention and its rcsult-i. (Jne cause of 

 this was the iate forn'al trial of .American (wiili other for- 

 eign) plows, in the presence of the agriciil'.uial jury ; which 

 trial, though | artiaj and hurried, was followed liy iuMn:>(!iate 

 orders fur an American plow then tested (Starbuck's) from 

 Englishmen, Belgians and Frenchmen, iricluding sevcr.il ag- 

 ricultural societies. If a hundred 3f these p!ov\s were here 

 they might be sold at once : in their abscence, the full p.'ico 

 has been piiiddovvn for some twenty or thirty, to be shipped 

 at New York, and be thenceforth at the risk and cost of the 

 buyers. And these orders have just commenced." 



If the American commissioners had been acquainted with 

 the agricultural implements of which tliey had charge, had 

 explained their use, and defended them like men instead of 

 acting as though they were ashamed of the American exhibi- 

 tion, or afraid to undertake a defence, the bragging and swag- 

 gering of the London press would soon have been stopped. 



Short-Horns. — Mr. Geo. Vail, of Troy, has furnished 

 ua with the following facts, which we publish for the infor- 

 mation of breeders of cattle, that at his late sale, on the 2(jth 

 June, he retained about 14 head of Short-Horns as the basis 

 of his future breeding herd ; most of these are his imported 

 Bates cows, and heifers bred from them, got by his Bates 

 bulls Duke of Wellington and Meteor. The heifers which 

 he has reared from these cows have all been retained by him 

 for breeding, except two sold at private sale on the day of 

 his public sale, the 26ih of June last, and these two were 

 sold, one to Mr. Remington of Philadelphia, and the other 

 to Mr. Chapman of Madison county, N. Y. Mr. Vail's pre- 

 mium bull Meteor will continue to be bred to the heifers of 

 Wellington, and his fine bull Fortune to his Meteor heifers, 

 till another appropriate cross can be had from England, 

 where he now has an order for the purchase of a young 

 Duchess bull out of the well known and famed Duchess 

 cows bred by the late eminent breeder, Thos. Bates, Esq. 

 He has also an order there for two heifers possessing the 

 same blood. These orders it is expected will be promptly 

 executed. In connection, it may be stated that in order to 

 be able to supply the repeated and increasing demand for an- 

 imals of this blood, he has added to his herd w iihin a few 

 days, eight cows and lieifers, thorough-bred Durhams, pos- 

 sessing great substance, fine symmetry, and, so far as devel- 

 oped, good milking qualities, purchased from the Messrs. 

 Lathrop, of Massachusetts. The most of these animals 

 have the blood of the late Mr. Bates' herd through a bull 

 owned by the Messrs. Lathkop, got by the bull Yorkshire- 

 man bred by the former gentleman, and imported by Mr. 

 Joseph Cofb, of Pennsylvania, in 1839. 



Agricultural Fairs. — State Fairs lor the present year 

 will be held ca follows : 



New York—at Rochester. Sept. IG, 17, 18, and l). 



Southern Central Agricultural Society — at Macon, Ga., 

 Oct. 29, 30, and 31. 



Ohio— at Columbus, Sept. 24. 25, and 2G. 



Michigan— at Detroit, Sept. 24, 25,'and 26. 



Pennsylvania — at Harrisburgh, Oct. 22. 23, and 24. 



Vermont — at uiiddlcbnry. Sept. 10 and 11. 



Canada— at Brockville, Sept. 24, 25, and 2G. 



County Fairs — as follows : 



Allegany county — at Angelica, Oct. I and 2. 



Chenango county — at Smyrnia, Oct. 1 and 2. 



East Bloomfield Farmers' Club— at East Bloomfield, Onta- 

 rio county, Sept. 24- 



Herkimer county — Sept. 9. 



Oneida county— at Utica, Sept. 8, 9, 10, 11, and 12. 



Otsego county— Oct. 1 and 2. 



Saratoga (ounty— at Mechanicsville, Sept. 9, 10, and 11. 



Seneca county^^it Waterloo, Oct. 9 ond 10. 



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