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high, while those which are tlonting and pros- 

 are longer, some of them eighteen inches in 

 h. Perhaps a lighter soil might suit it better, 

 ppearance is more vigoious than the white clover; 

 le think the red clover in the same situation 

 d be more productive. If its prostrate stems 

 d take root, its value would be greatly increased. 



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A Cure for the Heaves in Horses. 



ESSBs. Editors — I observed in your paper an in- 



for a cure for the Heaves in horses. 



the sipring of the year, take one ten-spoonful of 



Petre, and another of Borax, powdered fine, put 



in meal, and feed . the horse three such doses 



n twenty-four hours of each other; then double 



[lose for three limes more, and in n few weeks the 



tres will disappear. I have tried it with complete 



J. DUNHAM. 

 •na, Tompkins co., N. V. 1840. 



Ontario County Agricultural Society. 



I'e mentioned in our last that an Agricultural So- 

 had been formed in Ontario county. We now 

 a more particulor account of it, and are happy to 

 Ithat its proceedings give evidence of much spirit, 

 promise great usefulness. We hope to witness 

 xhibition at Canandaigua, on the 20th of October, 

 h. will speak well for old Ontario. The Conati. 

 adopted by the society is of the usual form for 

 ity societies: annual fee one dollar. The follow- 

 is a list of the officers and town committees for 

 present year: — 



JOHN GREIG, 

 Gideon Lek, 

 Heman CHAPm, 

 Peter Mitchell, 

 Lyman Hawes, 

 William Ottlet, 

 Irving Metcalf. 



ecording Secretary, William W. Gorham. 



orrespondmg Secretary, Oliver Phelps. 



reasurer, James D. Bemis. 



TOWN COMMITTEES. 



anandaigna. — Charles Shepard, Ruasel B. John- 



and Caleb Gage. 



anadice. — Hiram Colegrove, Josiab Jackman and 



/ester Austin. 



7tst Bloovifidd. — Reynold Peck, Jasper C. Peck, 



Bezaliel C. Taft. 



'.ast Bloomfidd. — Flavius J. Bronson, Hani Brad- 



and Myron Adams. 



•ristol. — Francis Mason, Erastus H. Crow and 



wn Packard. 



'outh Bristol. — Franklin Crooker, Allen Brown, 



James Parmely, Junr. 



lorham. — Ephraim Blodget, Adam Fake and Da- 

 Picket. 

 lopacM. — Joel S. Hart, Arunah Mosely and Eli- 



¥. Miller. 



Manchester. — Nicholas Howland, Edmund B. Dew- 

 ind Abner Barlow, Junr. 



faples. — Alanson Watkins, Ephraim W. Cleave- 

 d and James L. Monier. 



•"armington. — Russell M. Rush, Wilmarth Smith, 

 1 Perez Hathaway. 



lichmond. — Hiram Pitts, Robert L. Rose and Si- 

 Reed. 



^eruca. — Robert C. Nicholas, Abraham A. Post 

 I Charles Godfrey. 



Victor. — William Bushnell, Azariah Bickford and 

 a Bali. 



Phelps. — Eliaa Cost, Wiliam Dickeraon and Peter 

 ndricks. 



The Executive Committee have announced that the 

 innal Cattle Show and Fair will be held at Canan- 

 gua, on Tuesday the SOth day of October, at which 

 le a ploughing match will be held, an address de- 

 ered, and premiums awarded for the best ani- 

 ils of farm stock, crops of grain and Roots, articles 

 lomestic manufactnre, and agricultural implements. 

 list of articles and the amount of premiums, is pub- 

 led in the Canandaigua papers. The aggregate a- 

 ^unt offered is $500. This speaks well for the new 



society in these times of pressure. Every farmer in 

 the county ought immediately to have his name on- 

 rolled as a member. 



The Genesee County Agricultural Society. 



The annual Cattle Show and Fair of this Society 

 will be held at Alexander the 14th day of October — 

 (not at Batavia as mentioned in our last. ) The fol- 

 lowing is a list of the Officers and Managers of the 

 Society : 



President, THEO. C. PETERS, of Darien. 



Ist Vice do. E. Bishop, of Attica. 



2d, do do. William E. Heston, Batavia. 



3d, do do. F. P. Pendell, " 



4th, do do. G. A. Briggs, " 



.5th, do do. L. C. Draper, Alexander. 



6th, do do. Leveritt Peck, Bennington. 



7th, do do. Lewis Clark, of Dnrieii. 



8th, do do. Ctrus Bkown, Pembroke. 



C P. Turner, Esq. of Batavia, Corresponding and 

 Recording Secretary. 



Lewis E. Heston, of Batavia, Treasurer. 

 MANAGERS. 

 O. Dinsmore, Alabama, 



George Cooley, Attica, 



0. T. Fargo, Alexander, 

 Sam'l Richmond, Bergen, 



J. G. Russell, Batavia, 



John Jenny, Bethany, 



Chauncy Hayden, Bennington, 

 E. Cash, Byron, 



Jas. C. Feiriss, Covington, 

 Silas Parker, China 



S. D. Tabor, Castile, 



A. Jefi'erson, Darien, 

 G. Decky, Elba, 

 Nysom Reynolds, Gainesville, 

 John Parish, Java, 



B. Murphy, Le Roy, 

 Orlando Kelley, Middlebury, 

 W. Lewie, OrangeviUe, 

 Peter Patterson, Perry, 



Eli Allen, Pembroke, 



Pomeroy Warner, Sheldon, 



1. N. Stage, StafTord, 

 Elijah Norton, Warsaw, 

 Horace Gibbs, Weathersfield. 



The annual fee for membership of this Society is 

 only fifty cents, and certainly no former in the county 

 can, or ought to, refuse his name and mite in oid of so 

 laudable an enterprise. Several warm Iriends of og- 

 riculture have subscribed largely, and given much 

 lime and labor in aid of the Society, and if the form- 

 ers of Genesee will consult their own interests, they 

 will lend their hearty co-operation; then great benefits 

 will result from the Society to that rich ogricullural 

 county. 



*,* Our renders will be careful not to confound the 

 name of the Genesee County Society, with thai of 

 the Genesee Society which has its meetings at Roch- 

 ester. The former is intended for Genesee county 

 alone ; the latter is intended for several counties, or 

 all Western New York. At the time of its formation 

 it was not known that a Society was in contemplation 

 for Genesee county ; and in order to avoid confusion 

 it is probable that its name will be changed at the an- 

 nual meeting. 



Late Sales of Improved Cattle. 



The following accounts of prices obtained at late 

 sales of improved cattle, afford gratifying evidence 

 that the panic among farmers is beginning to disap- 

 pear, and^that the cause of improvement will not long 

 be paralyzed by the cry of " hard times." 



Joseph C. Hathaway of Farmington purchased a 

 few days since of Thomas Weddle, of Greece, near 

 this city, his imported Durham Short Horn Cow, 

 " Lady Bower," with her bull Calf, " Welham," 7J 

 months old, by "American Comet," for the sum of 

 one t/iousand dollars. 



At a late sale of stock belonging to Allen Brown, 

 South Bristol, Ontario co., his full blooded Durham 



Bull, "Echo," from Mr. Wcddlc's imported stock, 

 sold for $580 ; ond his Cow, " Beauty," from the 

 same stock, with her two calves, sold for .'J>890. 



The following account of o late sale of Durham cat- 

 tle at Franklin, Kentucky, we copy from the Franklin 

 Farmer. 



Sale of Cattle The sale of Cattle by the Fayette 



Cattle Importing Conipnny, was made on the day pre- 

 viously advertised. The srile was numerously at- 

 tended, by farmers from all our odjoining counlies, 

 and the herd was very well distribuled. The prices 

 for the times, we suppose, were fair excepting those of 

 the bulls, Carcass and^oUis, which for their cost should 

 have sold higher. Carcase come to America with a 

 great reputation as a m-ize bull ; it was therefore sup- 

 posed he would have Drought a better price. We infer 

 from this sole, that superior breeding cattle are still 

 in demand, notwithstanding the great number brought 

 into the country. We are inl'ormed that there will 

 probably be no imporlatioi.e this season from England. 

 A proper use of what we have, will make a vast change 

 on the herds of the U. Slates. Nothing is wanting to 

 render the catile of the United States equal to those of 

 any region of the world, but on observance of the rules 

 of breeding and rearing cattle, deduced from the long 

 experience of other countries. We have luxuriant 

 pastures, abundant grain, and a kind climate. What 

 else do we lack but prudence and skill in their use 7 



The following are the names of the purchasers, cat- 

 tle, ond the prices : 



Victoria, purchased by R. Fisher, $l,7r0 



Prince Albert, her calf— J Flournoy, 350 



Miss Hopper — Thoe. C'almes, 270 



Washington — Dr. W. H. Richardson, 85 



Carcass — B. Gralz, 725 



iEolus— R. Fisher, 610 



Eclipse— R. Fisher 1,050 



Elizabeth— A. McClure, 505 



Maria, calf of Elizabeth— J. R. Ford, 310 



Miss Luck— H. Cloy, Jr. of Bourbon, 800 



Nelson, cnlfof Miss Luck — P. Todhunter, 610 



Fashion— G. W. Williams. 440 



Zeln, calf of Fashion— G. W. Williams, 445 



Splendor— B. Gralz, 650 



Tulip— A. McClurc, 700 



Brittonio and calf Dido — H. Duncan, 375 



Isabella — R. Fisher, 355 



Lady Eliza — H. Clay, Jr. of Bourbon, 660 



Orlando, calf ofL. Eliza, H.Clay, jr. of Bourbon, 305 

 Lilly— T. Calmes. 390 



Trajan, calf ol Lilly— Wheeland & Co. 150 



Nancy- C. J. Rogers, 730 



Avarilda— John Allen, 920 



Biuee, calf of Avarilda — M. Williams, 315 



Beauty — H. Clay ol" Fayette, 700 



Flora, cnlfof Beauty — J. Thorn, 410 



Miss Maynard— A. McClure, 1,005 



Mdton, calf of Miss M. — Jae. Gaines, 285 



Jessica — Joel Higgins, 330 



Rosabella — Wm. Warner, 465 



Crofton — J. Downing, 155 



ImproTed Variety of Wheat. 



Abiel D. Gage, of Macedon, Wayne co. has thia 

 year raised several acres of a variety of wheat, which 

 we consider greatly superior to most of our cultivated 

 sorts. A few grains were originally found among a 

 quantity of white flint wheat, and from these the pre» 

 senl kind was derived. The discoverer has given to 

 it the name of Siberian Flint Wheal, but we should 

 much prefer that an American, instead of a foreign 

 name, be given to it, and would therefore propose that 

 it be called the Macedon Flint Wheat. It ripens sere- 

 ral days earlier, is more prodiictire, and Tnuch less lia- 

 ble to lodge, than the common white flint. A field, 

 sown with the two kinds, which had similar advantt 

 ges in every respect, yield.d lost year, on that port 

 sown by the new, thirti/ bushels to the acre ; whils 

 the common flint yielded only twentijone bushels. 

 Similar results appeared thia year. It is intended to 

 deposit a specimen in the Rochester Seed Store. " 



Massbanuocks, vs. Rohans. 



Mr. Phineas Briggs of Albion, Orleans co. informs 

 us that he is cultivating an acre of Maeehannock or 

 Mercer potatoes, which he challenges any grower of 

 Rohans to excel in quantity of produce this fall. 



What say you, friend Harmon and others ? Can't 

 you beat 'em 1 We will bet two to one on Robana^ 



