THE GENESEE FAKMEE. 





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tiiral college in the State of New York, and we 

 have lived to see the Legislature charter snch an 

 institution. A bill to cliarter the U. S. Agricul- 

 tural Society is before Congress, drawn by the 

 writer, and considerable progress has been made 

 in behalf of a National University worthy of the 

 rejmblic. AVe wanted a thorough organization 

 of the men of true pi'ogress in all the States as a 

 means to enlighten public opinion, educate, and 

 elevate the industrial classes. Once properly 

 organized, nothing would be easier than to estab- 

 li.-^li at least a thousand agricultural and mechani- 

 cal Schools, with superior professional liljraries, 

 teachers, and all needful apparatus to promote the 

 acquisition of knowledge. To attain this national 

 object, an Industrial University at Washington, 

 uniting the highest grade of science with the most 

 advanced practice in the arts of tillage, husbandry, 

 horticulture, manufacturing, mining, and civil 

 engineering, for the education of educators, is 

 indispensable. The University at Berlin ha3 one 

 huiadred and twenty professors ; and yet Prussia 

 is a small nation in comparison with this repub- 

 lican empire. How long is it to be cursed with 

 personal and sectional jealousies to the universal 

 n&gleet of education, its highest and most endur- 

 ing interest? 



Saxox Merino axd Cross Breed Sheep. — The 

 Executive CommiHee of the N. Y. State Agricul- 

 tural Society have adopted the following regula- 

 tions in regard to fine woolcd sheep, iai hopes that 

 greater justice will be done to exhibitors than 

 heretofore, and the true merits of the sheep exhib- 

 ted be more satisfactorily ascertained: 



Reqv4remenis. — The number of Ewes to be exhibited for 

 premiums U) be fivp, and they must each have suckled a 

 iiunb tlie present season. 



1. The tieeces must be sent to the Secretary, at the AjrH- 

 cultural Kooms, Albany, immediately after shearing, with 

 the i)rivate marlt of the owner, and a mark placed upon 

 each sheep corresponding with that sent to the Scerelary, 

 and a lock of wool left on each sheep. Tlio Se<retary io 

 reeord these marks in a book provided for the pui-pose, and 

 to be sliown to no person until the fleeces are produced at 

 the Fair. 



2. A statement must also be sent, containing the age of 

 each sheep; how they have been kept; the" dat<! wlien 

 shorn, and that the fleece was but one year's growth ; ttie 

 lenglli fif tiuie after washing when the fleece was shorn ; 

 and that each Ewe had suckled a lamb up to the time of 

 shearing. 



3. The Middlesex MiU standard for assorting the fleeces to 

 be adopted. The Secretary is to send each fleece to llie 

 assorter, marked l)y liini, to be weighed, examined, and 

 noted as to its various qualities. 



4. 'J'he fleeces to be carefully cleansed, dried, .ind weighed 

 and eacli fleece to be put up separate and returned to tlie 

 Secretary witli the assorter's rci)ort. , 



5. The sheep to be exhibited at the Fair, and to be exam- 

 ined liy llie judges. 



(i. After tlic judges have examined the sheep, the fleeces 

 are to lie siil>inill..Ml t., Iheni, M'ilh the report of the assorler. 

 and witli llic private marks sent to the Secretary, when the 

 judges will make their av.iinls. 



Each exhil>ilor must present an affidavit to the Secretflry 

 for the use of the judges, tliat tll(^ shtiep exhil)ite<l are tlie 

 saiue that Iho floeces were taken from which were sent to 



the Secretary for being assorted and examined, and that the 

 statement furnished by him to the Secretary is in all respects 

 correct. 



Bucks. — The same ndesas to shearing and marking, and 

 statements as to age, feeding, &c., will be required — to be 

 verified in like manner. 



Improvement of Horses. — "We learn that L. G. 

 Morris, Esq., President of the New York State 

 Agricultural Society, and Mr. Fr.\n"Cis Morris, of 

 Westchester, purchased at the sale of Mr. Gibbons 

 the celebrated race mare "Fashion," with a foal 

 at her foot by "Mariner," for $1,550. Fashion 

 will be bred to Mr. Bithnet's celebrated imported 

 horse " Consternation" this season. No other 

 branch of stock-rearing pays so well as that of 

 producing first rate horses ; and we are happy to 

 know that gentlemen of the skill, judgment, and 

 means of the Messrs. Morris are giving to the 

 business a share of their attention. 



■Sale of Blood Horses. — The large stock of 



blood horses belonging to the estate of the late 



Wm. Gibbons, was sold at auction on the 8d inst., 



at Madison, N. J. Among the number sold was 



the celebrated racer "Fashion," now 17 years old, 



bought by Mr. Morris, of Morrisiania, for $1,550. 



"Bonnets o' Blue," mother of "Fasliion," 26 years 



old, brought ^100. "Patsey Anthony," 13 yea«rs 



old, S'280. "Mariner," 17 years old, $270; and 



others of lesser note at prices varying from $70 



up to $620. This sale attracted a large concourse 



of people from Newark, New York, and other 



places. 



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The Connecticut Valley Farmer &. Mechanic. — 

 AVe have received the first number of a monthly 

 journal with the above title, published at Spring- 

 field, Mass., at fifty cents per annum, by S.\muel 

 Bowles & Co., and edited by Wm. B. Calhoun, 

 who is well qualified to make & valuable paper. 



Inquiries anlr C^nsivcrs. 



EoTTBK PoT.\.TOi« NOT ALWAYS LosT. — TMiriug thc har- 

 vest of ls^51, I was looking over an oat field belonging to a 

 friend, in AVaukeslia Co., Wis., and saw a most remarkable 

 ditTerenee on one part of the fleld in thc color, strength and 

 (|ualily of the oats. Upon inquiry, I ascertaine<l that pota- 

 toes had grown there the previoiis summer. A part were 

 <lug before they were ripe; in the other part of the fleld 

 tiny liecanie diseased an<l roUed on the ground. Where 

 the latter was the case, more than a double crop of oats was 

 thc result the next year. 



The -soil is a black sand mixed with some little muck or 

 marl. The season that summer (ISol) Iwd been rather dry. 

 Please exiilairi this in some futiu'c number. M-uuc Seavku. 

 — Waterloo, Jvff. Co., Wis. 



Tiie reason why the diseased potatoes so much 

 increased the oat crop is very evident : the un- 

 ripe potatoes that were di;g and licmoved from 

 the field, carried with them a large quantity of 

 organic and inorganic matter which tliey had 

 obtained from the soil. Their removal, therefore, 

 to some extent impoverished the soil of the food 



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