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Smne. 

 Best Boar, 5 sovereigns. 



Poultry. 



Best pair of Turkeys, black breed, - 3 " 



" Speckled Dorking Fowls, 2 " 



" Spangled Hamburg breed, 2 " 



" Malay, 2 



Butter. 

 Best (14 pounds,) 5 " 



Cheese. 

 Best 2 Cheeses, 5 " 



Agiicultural implements, premiums of five down to two sovereigns. 

 Thirty thousand persons attended this Cattle Show. 



Charles Henry Hall. — We owe our thanks to Mr. Cowdin for this 

 as well as other frequent communications of interest. He is, as far 

 as I know, the only American consul who takes the trouble. It is 

 a singular fact, that the Scotch should appear so large in the breed 

 of horses. We now see the beneficial results of the wise and patri- 

 otic labor of Sir John Sinclair, and that excellent farmer, Thomas 

 Cope, who, in the year 1793, founded the first Agricultural Society 

 in Scotland. It is a matter of great congratulation to us of New 

 England, with our difficult soils, to find Scotland taking the lead in 

 agriculture. 



As to fruits and their propagation, Virgil intimates that the an- 

 cients succeeded in grafting diflferent fruits on each other, — as on the 

 plane tree, &c. That is impossible. 



At the Fruit Convention on the 10th of October, my venerf.ble 

 friend Mr. Andrew Cursor, of Fordham, will appear with some of 

 his fine fruit. He has budded his trees for some fifty years past. 

 He is in good health at ninety years of age. He lives in the midst 

 of his own rich budded and grafted fruit trees. 



An American farmer raises some of everything, — he will not 

 place his dependence on a single root or plant. We have such a va- 



