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SOUTHERN CULTIVATOR. 
THE OED FARM HOUSE. 
In a little grove of shade trees 
Stands a farm house, brown and old, ' 
With a wealth of vines around it, 
Gemm’d with flowers of red and gold ; 
By the path that makes a circle 
Of white sand around the lawn, 
Grow sweet timothy and clover, 
Rosy as a June day dawn, ^ 
Around its door pale morning-glories, 
Jump-up-johnnies, dahlias, pinks, 
Cluster — concentrated beauties, 
Married by a thousand links ; 
Links of love, the works of nature’s 
Mystery of handicraft ; 
Links of glory, through which fairy 
Argosies of perfume waft. 
And the gate that swings before it, 
And the fence as white as snow. 
Stand on variegated cushions. 
Which the sun-fire sets aglow, 
Crowning them with many colors — 
Yellow, purple, green and blue — 
As if rainbows there had fallen, 
Melted into rarest dew. 
On its roof the greenest mosses. 
Catch the shadows from the trees ; 
On its sides red honey-suckles 
Make their curtesies to the breeze ; 
And the ever-nervous willows. 
Standing near the garden’s bound. 
Throw a web of shade fantastic 
On the clover-mantled ground. 
O’er the well an arch of grape vines, 
Formed with heaven’s directed care 
Chains the shadows to the water. 
Making cool the summer air : 
And a tiny church, its steeple 
Piercing through a bower of leaves. 
Is a sure and sacred refuge 
Where the wren her carol weaves. 
[Neio York Sunday Times. 
“STATE AID” TO AGRICULTURE, dkc. 
We conclude the article commenced our last number, 
setting forth the laws in aid of Agriculture passed by the 
Legislature of the State of New York : 
AGRICULTURAL SOCIETIES. 
We give the act for the incorporation of Agricultural 
Societies, passed at the last session of the Legislature, 
which will enable Societies to be far more easily organ- 
ized than heretofore, 
AN ACT TO FACILITATE THE FORMDTION OF AGRICULTURAL 
AND HORTICULTURAL SOCIETIES. 
[Passed April 13, 1855 : three-fifths beir-g present ] 
The people of the State of New York^ represented in 
Senate and Assembly^ do enact as follows : 
^ 1. Any ten or more persons of full age, citizens of the 
United States, and amajorityof whom shall be citizens of 
this State, who shall desire to form a county or town agri- 
cultural society, in any county, town, city or village in 
this State, may make, sign and acknowledge, before any 
officer authorized to' take the acknowledgements of deeds 
in this State and file in the offic.e of the Secretary of State, 
and also in the office of the county in which the business 
of such society is to be conducted, a certificate, in writing, 
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wherein shall be stated the name and title whereby such 
society shall be known in law, the particular business 
and objects of such society, the number of trustees, direc- 
tors, or managers to manage the same, and the names of 
such trustees, directors, or managers thereof, lor the first 
year of its existence. 
^ 2, Upon filing a certificate, as aforesaid, the persons 
who shall have signed and acknowledged such certificate, 
and their associates and successors, shall thereupon, by 
virtue of this act, be a body politic and corporate by the 
name stated in such certificate, and by that name they 
and their successors shall and may have succession, and 
shall be persons in law, capable of sueing and being sued, 
and they and their successors may have and use a com- 
mon seal, and may change and alter the same at pleasure; 
and they and their successors, by their corporate name, 
shall, in law, be capable of taking and receiving, pur- 
chasing and holding real estate for the purposes of their 
incorporation, and for no other purpose, to a sum not ex- 
ceeding the sum of twenty-five thousand dollars in value, 
if a county society, and one thousand dollars in value, if 
a town, village or city society ; and personal estate for 
like purposes, to an amount not exceeding ten thousand 
dollars, if a county society, and three thousand dollars, if 
a town, village or city society, and to make by-laws for 
the management of its affairs, not inconsistent with the 
laws of this State, or of the United States. 
^ 3, Any person who shall pay into the treasury of 
said society such sum as the by-laws of said society shall 
require, or not less than ten dollars, may be a life mem- 
ber of said society, with all the privileges of an annual 
member thereof. 
^ 4. Any person who shall pay into the treasury of said 
society, annually, a sum not less than fifty cents, as pre- 
scribed by the by-laws of said society, shall be a stock- 
holder, and entitled j to all the privileges and immunities 
thereof. 
^ 5, The officers of said society shall consist of a Presi- 
dent and at least of one Vice-President, a Secretary and 
Treasurer and six Directors. The President and Vice- 
President, Secretary and Treasurer shall be elected annu- 
ally, and the first year there shall be elected six Directors; 
they shall be divided by lot into three classes, the first 
class to serve one year, the second class two years, and 
the third class three years, and at the expiration of each 
term there shall be elected two Directors to serve three 
years, and all vacancies' that may occur to be filled only 
for the term made vacant. The election of all officers to 
be by ballot of the stockoolders or members. The Board 
of Managers shall consist of the President, the first Vice- 
President, Secretary, Treasurer and six Directors, a ma- 
jority of whom shall constitute a quorum for the transac- 
tion of business, and it shall be the duty of said officers to 
manage the propertv and concerns of the said society, as 
will best promote the interest of agriculture, horticulture, 
and the mechanic arts ; and they shall hold annual fairs 
and exhibitions and distribute premiums to the best 
and most meritorious exhibitors in these several depart- 
ments. 
^ 6. There slia 11 be but one county society in any one 
county in this State, nor shall there be more than one so- 
ciety in any town therein; but any two or three towns 
may join and organise a society for the same; but the or- 
ganization of such society by an association of towns 
shall not be held to prohibit the organization of any town 
society or either one of such town societies. 
§ 7. The said society may, in case^ the uses and con- 
veniences thereof so require, upon application to the Su- 
preme Court of the district wherein said county, at the 
time of such application, shall be situated, obtain the re- 
qusite order and power to sell, from time to time, the 
whole or any part or parts of its real estate ; the granting 
of such order to be in the discretion of the Court, and such 
