1860. 



NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



417 



in one of which is a dumb wait- 

 er from the cellar kitchen. No. 

 12 is a portico over the side en- 

 trance. In the cellar are cellar 

 kitchen and scullery under No. 

 8 ; drying-room under No. 9 ; 

 store-rooms under the dining- 

 room, and common cellar under 

 the hall and parlor. The second 

 floor contains four large cham- 

 bers with closets, a sewing-room 

 over the vestibule and hall, and 

 a bathing-room over the back 

 entrj^ 



Construction. — We have de- 

 signed this cottage to be built of 

 rough stone and covered with 

 cement, or with a wash of some 

 neutral tint. The trimmings to 

 be of freestone, or any dark 

 stone contrasting in color with 

 the walls, and the details of 

 wood painted to correspond. 

 The interior finish should be of 

 a plain, simple character, cor- 

 responding in stj'le with the exterior. 



The cost of this cottage will depend more upon 

 the locality than a frame house. In situations 

 where stone of a suitable quality is plenty, it may 

 be built and finished throughout for $5000. 



U. S. AGKICULTUBAL SOCIETY. 



Eighth National Exhibition, at Cincinnati, Ohio, September 

 12, 13, 14, 15, 17, IS, 19 and 20, 1800. 



Rooms United States AGRictJLTURAL Society, ) 

 Washington, D. C, July 20, 180O. j 



Sir : We have the honor to inform you that the 

 Executive Committee of the U. S. Agricultural So- 

 ciety, who were authorized at the annual meeting 

 in January, to locate and to make all necessary 

 arrangements for the Eighth National Exhibi- 

 tion, have decided to accept the liberal offer of 

 grounds, fixtures, &c., and the guarantee of a 

 twenty thoufiand dollar premium list, made by 

 Professor Gary, Vice President for Ohio, ia be- 

 half of citizens of Cincinnati. This location was 

 presented by Professor Cary to the attention of 

 the Society at the annual meeting in 1859, and 

 (it may be proper here to state) no objection was 

 made from any source, until after it had again 

 been presented by him at the annual meeting in 

 January last, and fcvmally accepted by the Exec- 

 utive Committee at its subsequent meeting, on 

 conditions which have been fulfilled in the most 

 generous manner. 



The Eighth National Exhibition will be held at 

 "the Park" near Cincinnati, an area of sixty acres, 

 on the line of raiboad leading to Columbus. The 

 grounds will be fitted up in the best manner, and 

 there will be a track one mile in length and forty 

 feet in width, for the exhibition of horses. Every 

 facility will be offered for the exhibition and trial 

 of implements and machines ; and as the Exhi- 

 tion will extend from the mcrning of Wednes- 



day, the 12th, to the evening of Thursday, the 

 20th, (eight days,) it is much to be hoped that 

 there can be those "tests" so necessary to give 

 value to awards. The animated contests of Ex- 

 hibitors for the Medals and Diplomas of the 

 United States Agricultural Society, prove the 

 high estimation in which these awards are held, 

 and it is but right that they should be bestowed 

 with discrimination, after a thorough examina- 

 tion. The delay which has heretofore attended 

 the distribution of medals vviU be avoided, as 

 they have already been ordered at the U. S. Mint. 

 Premium Lists will be sent by mail to applicants. 



The Agriculturists, Stocli-breeders, Horticul- 

 turists, Pomologists, Mechanics, Artists, and oth- 

 er industrial citizens of the Republic, and of the 

 adjacent British Provinces, are respectfully and 

 earnestly solicited to contribute to this Exhibi- 

 tion, that it may be one of general interest in all 

 its departments. No labor cr expense will be 

 s])ared to render it creditable to the "Queen City 

 of the West," and worthy of the great i\gricul- 

 tural interests of the country, which the Society 

 represents. 



With sentiments of the highest respect, Ave are 

 Your obedient servants, 



Henry Wageb, Presideiti. 



Ben ; Perley Poore, Secretary. 



Ornithology,— In another column we present 

 the reader with the first of several articles which 

 we are promised by our intelligent and obliging 

 correspondent, "J. A, A." Our columns have al- 

 ready been enriched by his contributions, in me- 

 teorological and various agricultural matters, and 

 the reader may safely anticipate interesting and 

 profitable reading in the forthcoming articles. 



