lie wished to say there— since they had come together to 

 speali out fredv tlicir opinions— what he thought. He l)o- 

 lieved that liiey needed to put two inches upon thr height 

 of their horses ; and those two inches of height the breed- 

 ers must give. They could do it. They would give them 

 five years- ten, if ihey wished— but they must put their 

 horses up two inches higher. Gentlemen might say they 

 were tall enoucch for some purposes; but what he wished to 

 do was to supply the luxuries of cities. The horse, with 

 the citizen, was an article of luxury. They would pay al- 

 most any price, if the breeders would only get them up to 

 the risrlit lieiirht. '-Now, gentlemen," said Mr. TI., "get 

 your Slorgans and your BlaclJ Uawks up these two inches !" 

 (Applause.) 



The .above remarks are practical and Important, 

 although we are inclined to believe that the pop 

 ular city taste for liorses well up on long legs is 

 vicious and needs correction. All experience 

 goes to prove the hardiness of medium sized, and 

 small, tiglitly-made horses; while such as have 

 much daylight under their bellies, colts Uiathave 

 been pushed on grain from the time they could 

 eat oat meal, make horses with feeble constitu- 

 tions, with no capacity to endure hardships, 

 which are comparatively worthless for service. — 

 As we have from our old colonial native stock 

 the best cows in the world for converting grass 

 into milk, butter, and cheese, so we have the best 

 horses for all work that can be found in any 

 country. These remarks are made in no boastful 

 spirit, and their truth will be sustained by satis- 

 factory references and authority in the next vol- 

 ume of this standard work on Tillage and Hus- 

 bandry. 



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First State Faik in North Carolina. — It gives 

 us sincere pleasure to learn that a State Agricul- 

 tural Society has been organized under the most 

 favorable auspices in the good old North State. 

 It has a delightful climate, and more excellent 

 farming land than it gets credit for by travel- 

 ers passing through it on the great thoroughfare 

 between the Northern and Southern States. The 

 Raleigh Reghter gives the following animated 

 account of the great State Fair: 



Never, within our editorial experience, have we chroni- 

 cled any event witli more hcartfi'lt gratification than that 

 which we now ferl iikrceordin^f the complete success of the 

 first North Carolina State Fair! We say com ithtc success ; 

 for, whether we take into consideration tlie inmn-nse num- 

 ber and the hiiih respectability of the persons present— tlie 

 cl)aracter of the exhibition itself— the demonstrations which 

 met the eye at every gaze of the available and inexliausli- 

 ble resources of the State — or the indications of State pride 

 and State patriotism, which every where found vent — it 

 was, in each ani4 every respect, a triumph for North Caro- 

 lina — a triumi)h which all her sons, who have her welfare 

 and reput:,tioii at heart, may well be proud! AVe confess 

 that at no previous time have we gloried more in the fact 

 that we were a citizens of North Carolina, than when, on 

 the opening of this fair, we beheld the evidences of a great- 

 ness, prosperity, and prorireis, that put to shame the emi)ty 

 derision of the witlings who have made her a butt of their 

 ridicule. In no State of this ITnion has an experimental, 

 initiatory fair, bren '<o siiccifi'-fi/l Or so eminpnthj credituhli: 

 This is the unanimous declaration of tho«e fltom abroad who 

 have favored us with their presence. Nearly every section 

 of the State, and every industrial pursuit witliin its borders, 

 were represented. The JCast sent its fine slai>!es and its 

 blooded slock ; the West, its splendid cattle and its rich 



minerals. The farmer poured in his agricultural products 

 — the mechanic brought forward splendid specimens of his 

 skill — the native artist exhibited the productions of his pen 

 or his pencil — and the ladies of the State, never behind- 

 hand in any good work or beneficent object, crowned the 

 excellence of the whole with the multiplied beauties which 

 nature had yielded to their culture, and the varied and 

 tasteful attractions which had sprung from their handicraft. 



To chronicle the agricultural progres:? of this 

 vast empire, we expect soon to be \inder the 

 necessity of publishing another paper as large as 

 t\^ Farmer once a month, so that the readers of 

 both may have a semi-monthly review of all the 

 important events and markets affecting the agri- 

 cultural interest. 



Agricultural Addresses. — We are indebted to 

 our numerous friends and correspondents, for 

 many favors in the way of copies of addresses 

 delivered at the State and County Fairs during 

 the past autumn. They evince a gratifying ad- 

 vance in the rural literature of the country. "We 

 have marked several passages for copying and 

 comment in future. 



Large and successfid exhibitions have been 

 held, for the first time, in Louisville, Ky., Raleigh, 

 N. C, Richmond, Va., Springfield, III, and iu 

 scores of counties. Progress in' agriculture, elo- 

 quent speeches, and sincere devotion to this para- 

 mount interest, are vi.'^ible in nearly every State 

 in the L^nion. At no distant day, all the earnest 

 friends of rural improvement will unite their ef- 

 forts, and accomplish as much in one year as they 

 now do in ten. Harmony and co-operation are 

 the only elements of substantial advancement 

 that we still lack to achieve great things. Time 

 will fuse all injurious obstacles, and bring men 

 who really have one object in view to act in con- 

 cert, and with infinitely greater effect. Agricul- 

 tural addresses should tend in this direction. Iso- 

 lation is weakness. If it were not so, no two 

 families need have the least intercourse whatever, 

 and all society be extinguished forever. 



The recent great match on Long Island for 

 $10,000, betw'een "Prince," a trotter, and "He- 

 ro," a pacer — distance ten miles, in harness — was 

 won easily by the former. " Prince" is a chestnut 

 gelding, raised in Kentucky, nearly if not quite 

 thorough bred, of the Bertrand stock, his sire 

 being " Woodpecker." He is the property of 

 Dick Ticni-.roeck, who purchased him and another 

 at Louisville last Mtw, for $1,500. He has already 

 won some $1(5,000 with "Prince," and refused a 

 cash ofier of $3,000. 



In an advertisement of Longett & Grtffing, 

 last month, we made a mistake, putting guano at 

 $16 per ton, instead of $45. The reader, no 

 doubt, corrected the mistake. 



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