SOUTHERN CULTIVATOR. 
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Rtatioir that the Jndpres would announce tho premiums at 
the Haight House, at 4 o’clock, P. M., at which time there 
was a large galherng in the halls, and the foUowing pre- 
miums were announced : 
To the beet rider on Hor^ebacTc. — 1st. Mrs. M. Conover, 
Onondaga co., $100: 2d, Mrs. H. T. Chapman, Yates co., 
$50; 8d, Mrs.O. C. Child?, Onondaga co., $25;4ih. Miss E. 
Council, Onondaga co., $15; (and made up to $50 by the 
committee) 6th, Mrs. J. B. Clark, Chemung co., $10; 6th, 
Little Miss Tavlor, Ontario co., vdiseretionary) $15. 
To ihe b‘st Driver in Open Bvggy. — Ist. Mies E. Demur- 
est, Chemung co., »75; 2d, Mrs. F. 8. Norton, Onondago 
CO., $30;8d, Mrs. V. Whiting, Pa., $20; 4th. Miss C. M. 
Stephens, Cayuga co., $15; 5th, Miss P. Kinney, Seneca 
CO., $10. 
Ducretionary Premiums— C. Wilcox, Chemung co., 
$10; Mrs, J. H. Kodgers, Chemung co., $10; Miss A. M. 
Alexander, Wilkesbarre, Pa., $10; Miss 8. C. Kodgers, 
Livingston co., $10; Miss Fran ky Weyburn, Ontario co., 
$10; Mrs. 8. Minier, Chemung co., $10. 
female HOESEMANSHIP at the OHIO STATE 
FAIK. 
Dear “Spirit”— The Ohio State Fair, just clo.scd, 
brought together the best stock of horses and cattle ever 
before exhibited in conjunction, in America. Among the 
old lurfers were Imported Monarch, and Kentucky Grey 
Eagle, both now owned in Ohio. These, witli our Cad- 
muses, Trustees, Bellfounders, Black Hawks, &c., made 
up a show of royal blood exceeding any former Exhibi 
lion. 
But I took up my pen to speak of the new feature of 
femak horseman skip, which is becoming general at nearly 
all our Agricultural Fairs, and has done more to create 
and suppfy a demand for good saddle-horses than anything 
else yet brought forward. 
On the last day of the State Fair (Friday, Sept. 21st,) 
the Slate Board yielded the use of the driving ring (one- 
fourth of a mile in circumference) for two hours, from 1 1 
A. M. to 1 P. M., for equestrian exercises, under direction 
of Col. S. D. Harris, Editor of the Ohio CultiuiUrr.' 
Promptly at the hour, the Military Bund, accompanied by 
the members of the State Board of Agriculture and several 
distinguished guests, took up a position in the centre of 
the area, when the band struck up a grand march, and 
the procession of equestrians entered, twenty-eight in 
number, each lady escorted by her cavalier, riding upon 
her right. The ptocession was led by Col. Harris, escort- 
ing his daughter, Jennie. The crx-alcade wheeled to the 
rio-ht and circled to the left around the whole enclosure, 
which was densely surrounded by many thousand eager 
spectators. 
After the first and second circuits had been made upon 
an easy gallop, the troop reined into the area, and the 
gentlemen, uncovering, saluted the State Board'and the 
Band, circling around them upon the same place and then 
returned to the track. The gentlemen then countermarch- 
ed, the ladies still going forward, and meeting, at a brisk 
gallop, on the opposite side of the ring, each gentleman 
wheeled in with his partner, and kept the pace forward 
wiih her until arriving at the other side of the circle, when 
the ladies countermarched in the same way, and again 
joined their escort on the opposite side. The whole party 
then countermarched, by an outward wheel from front to 
rear, and also in open order from rear to front, by inward 
wheel. A variety of other evolutions were executed in 
fine style, when the gentlemen were withdrawn, and the 
ladies took the track to themselves, and soon began to 
manifest a disposition to show some fast riding; and as 
they were well mounted, and skillful riders, they were 
permitted to have tlieir own way, and such a way it was 
as made the forty thousand spectators hold their breath in 
astonishment! 
Some of the horses were old racers, and the ladies were 
determined to get at their best speed. Where all succeed- 
so well, it would be invidious to particularize. Among 
those who chanced to have the fastest horses were the 
accomplished young Miss Pelton, of Turnbull county, 
who sustained her reputation of being one of the hand- 
somest riders in the State. ‘]\lrs. Cornwell, of Columbiana 
Co., upon her Arabian stallion, Hassan — trained by her- 
self— was equal to any emergency, and had the reputation 
of being the best horsewomen upon the ground. 
A desire was expressed for a match between ^Mrs. Storn- 
baugh, of Columbus, and IMrs. White, of Portsmouth, who 
seem to have the two fastest horses. The two ladies took 
the track with their escorts, and after curvetting a couple 
of rounde, struck a full pace, Mrs. White being then some 
ten rods in advance, which distance she held during the 
first round ; at the second round, Mrs. S. began to close 
the gap, the animals literally flew, and it was hard to tell 
which was horse and which was petticoat ! the escort, in 
the mean time, having been left behind like drift-wood. 
At the end of the second round, Mrs. S. shot post Mrs. 
W. like an arrow, and led the race for half a round, when 
Mrs. W., unable to stop her horse, asked Mrs. S. to hold 
up, and Mr. W., taking a cut across the erea, seized his 
wife’s horse by the bridle, and in half a round more had 
it under control, and thus the match ended. The whole 
exhibition elicited unbounded applause, and was conclud- 
ed without the slightest accident to mar the pleasure of the 
scene. 
At the conclusion of the riding. Col. H. presented each 
female competitor with a handsome copy of the Lady's 
Eifucstrian Manual, and the State Board having reserved 
seats at the public table on the grounds, they were escort- 
ed to the pavillioii, and sat down to dinner, all in the best 
humor, with the flush of exercise painting roses upon 
their cheeks, and making their pulses leap in healthful ex- 
citement. So we do these things in Ohio, 
Truly, Scioto, ' 
\in Spirit of the Times. 
Columbus, O., Sq)t.2\, 1855. 
FODDER PTJLLING-ITS EFFECTS ON THE CROP, &C. 
Editors Southern Cultivator— In the September 
number of your journal, in reply to my objections to Corn 
stalk Fodder, Pea Hay, &c., advocated by you in the July 
number, you say you did not use the word ^‘useless" ap- 
plied to Pulling Fodder. By examination, I discover you 
are right. Your language, though, was this: “We con- 
sider it a slow, laborious and poor business - one that 
‘does not pay’ in any way, and which should be discon- 
tinued by all enlightened and economical planters.” If I 
have missquoted your language, I have given you the 
meaning, which is about the same. I will now say, in 
advocating the common practice of Pulling Fodder, Hiiat 
unless your acre of corn, -planted and cultivated expressly 
for fodder, is worth as much as my acre, planted for corn, 
fodder and peas, you are recommending that, of course, 
which does not pay us for our labor. When you speak of 
cultivating, we look for the profit and the easiest way of 
obtaining it. We might plant our cotton lands in Indigo, 
but we can’t make it pay as much by it as we can to 
plant for Cotton. This is the reason we cannot take y<fur 
advice in planting and cultivating expressly for fodder, 
even if the pulling of the fodder oii'our corn injured it to 
amount of the fodder (which I do not admit, and am well 
satisfied is not the case). We had better, then, cut and 
save Crab Grass hay, or prepare meadov/s for that pur- 
pose, which need no cultivation, than to take from our 
corn crops one acre intended for Corn and Peas, to plant 
for fodder alone, which could not realize to us one-iourth 
the profit that the same land would do in Corn and Peas. 
We don’t cultivate for the fun of it ; but it is ihe profit, that 
sweetens labor; and the intention of your journal is to 
