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cultural Improvement, and for improved farming implements, are also 

 thrown open for competition to the citizens of other States. Various 

 members of examining committees are selected from New England, New 

 Jersey, Pennsylvania, &c. ; from which States, it is hoped, there will be 

 sent to the State Fair many specimens of improved breeds and agricultu- 

 ral implements. 



Persons who have animals or other articles to send to the Fair, are re- 

 quested to inform the Recording Secretary at the earliest practicable pe- 

 riod, that the Society may be better able to make adequate arrangements 

 with rail-road and steamboat companies ; and it is believed that all those 

 companies, whether in New England, New Jersey or New York, will, 

 as far as practicable, encourage the cause of Agricultural Improvement 

 by complying with the applications which will be made by the Society for 

 facilitating travelling to and from the Fair at the cheapest rates. The 

 liberality experienced in this way in reference to former exhibitions, war- 

 rants a confident belief that neither the State Society nor the visitors at 

 the Fair will be disappointed in the charges and accommodations in steam- 

 boats and railroads. 



In order to have the arrangements satisfactorily made, it is repeated, 

 animals and articles designed for exhibition should be reported (post free) 

 as soon as practicable. 



Visitors from other States, and from remote sections of the State of 

 New York, can have accommodations secured in Poughkeepsie or its 

 neighborhood, by addressing the Recording Secretary in due season. 



It may not be improper to add, in this connection, that many eminent 

 Agriculturists and Public Officers from other States will be present, and 

 participate in the proceedings of the Fair, as in former years ; and that 

 meetings of the Friends of Agriculture will be held during the evenings 

 of the Fair, as well as on the Show Ground during the last day, for the 

 purpose of interchanging opinions on subjects connected with the progress 

 of Agriculture in this and other States of the Union. 



It is hoped that friends of Agriculture in all sections of this and 

 the neighboring States, (and especially the conductors of the press, whose 

 presence is invited to the greatest practicable extent,) will exert their in- 

 fluence in arousing attention among their neighbors to the satisfaction and 

 advantage which may be derived from attending exhibitions like those at 

 the Annual Fairs and Cattle Shows of the New York State Agricultural 

 Society. 



Deputations are respectfully invited from the Agricultural Societies in 

 other States, as well as from the County Societies in this State. Partic- 

 ular attention will be paid to the arrangements for accommodating the 

 Ladies in the exhibition of articles of domestic economy ; and such order 

 will be preserved as may enable all to examine the articles exhibited, 

 without confusion from crowds. — Henry O'Rielly, Recording Secretary, 

 Albany. 



The Chenango Potatne. — Is this potatoe and the Mercer identical ? The 

 Mercer, it is now known, was produced on Neshanoc Creek, in Mercer 

 County, Pennsylvania, from planting potatoe seed. There is, in Mercer 

 County, a creek called Shenango, but not not Chenango. This last is a 

 Chenango in New York. The true name of the poiatoe, if it be the 

 same, is the Mercer or Neshanoc potatoe. The truth of history might as 



