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the subjects of farming, horticulture, and stock breeding. 
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AGRICULTURAL SOCIETIES. 
Transactions of the Hartford County Agricultural 
Society for 1842.—We are indebted to an unknown 
friend for an octavo pamphlet of 90 pages, containing 
the doings of this spirited Society. The Address before 
it by S. H. Huntington, Esq., is eloquent and to the 
point; nor are we less pleased with the Reports of the 
different Committees, particularly the one on Farms, 
which strikes us as a thorough searching document. 
They have gone into the whole minutiae of capital, 
crops, expenses, and net profits. Mr. Doolittle’s farm 
pays 12 per cent, profit on the capital, Col. Rowe’s 
12 5-16, Mr. Deming’s 12, Mr. Hart’s 13f, Mr. Thomp¬ 
son’s 10, Mr. Alden’s 131, Mr. Tudor’s 12, Mr. Bart¬ 
lett’s, (adding 2 per cent, for improvement,) 13£, and 
Mr. Peck’s 10b per cent. Certainly, with such results 
as these before him, and at this time particularly, no 
farmer should complain. 
The Reports on Cattle and Sheep show that a taste 
for fine stock is on the increase in this county; but of 
that on swine, what will Mr. Lincoln say, when he 
hears, under authority of a grave Committee, that “ the 
pigs of Hartford County are far better bred , and far 
more moral than those of the staid and sober county of 
Worcester, (his own strong hold), for at the last Fair 
there, the festivities of the occasion were interrupted 
by a sanguinary duel , between two boars, and the turf 
on the beautiful green of Worcester was stained with 
hoggish gore !” 
We beg leave to interpose our caveat here, and gent¬ 
ly hint to the Hartford Committee, to be a little more 
careful how they report hereafter; for we have the 
best of authority for asserting that they are in great 
error; and that the aforesaid “ sanguinary duel,” was 
nothing more or less than an attempt with their tusks 
for razors, at a mutual shave, in order to give them¬ 
selves a neater and more gentlemanly appearance on 
the day of the show; and that the “ gory stains” were 
in consequence of accidentally splitting their mouths 
with an uncontrollable fit of laughter, and losing three 
teeth each, in addition, at the bare idea of the comic 
sententiousness which would be sure to flow from the 
pen of a certain nameless Governor, who has hitherto 
rode it rough-shod over every Sus Aper course in the 
Union, where he has happened to appear mounted upon 
his caehinnatory Pegasus. 
Agricultural State Fair of Louisiana. —We 
see by the New Orleans Tropic, that this Show and 
Fair was held on the 14th January, at Baton Rouge. 
A large assembly of planters and their ladies were pre¬ 
sent, and the thing went off with increased spirit over 
that of last year. The Hon. Henry Clay, of Kentucky, 
was a guest, and gave additional interest to the meet¬ 
ing. We have not space to give even the names of the 
successful candidates for prizes, but in addition to sam¬ 
ples of cotton, sugar, rice, horses, cattle, asses, mules, 
sheep, swine, goats, domestic manufactures, &e. &c., 
it will sound rather odd to our northern readers to hear 
of fruits, flowers, and vegetables, fresh gathered and 
exhibited in the open air in the middle of January. 
Col. Harney had out his splendid regiment of United 
States Dragoons, now stationed at Baton Rouge, and 
the Fair and parade were concluded by a brilliant fete 
and ball in the evening, at which say the whole seven 
of the editorial corps present, the ladies were particular¬ 
ly lovely and agreeable. We dare say, for why should 
they not be on so exhilarating an occasion as an Agri¬ 
cultural Fair and Show. 
Postage. —We have received the special Report of 
the Post-Master General, as also that of Mr. Merrick, 
Chairman of the Committee on Post-Roads and the 
Post-Office in the U. S. Senate; and we must confess 
that we are greatly chagrined and disappointed at the 
trifling reduction in the rates which are proposed in 
the first report. We pronounce the present laws of the 
Post-Office Department as anti-social, anti-democratic, 
anti-republican—an extortion upon the farmer, and out 
of all reason compared with the present prices of his 
produce. 'Twenty-five cents is the price of a bushel of 
wheat in the interior of the west, of 2b bushels of corn, 
of 20 lbs. of pork, or of a quarter of a ton of hay; and 
we have just paid the same amount for the transporta¬ 
tion of two letters, weighing one ounce each, from New 
Orleans, as we have per bale (weighing nearly 500 
lbs.) of a lot of cotton—viz. Two Dollars. This also 
is the price at which we offer three vols. of the 
American Agriculturist, containing 1152 pages, double 
columns, of imperial octavo, with fine type and paper, 
and embellished with numerous engravings ! 
The rates now proposed by the Post-Master General, 
is on all single letters sent by the mail any distance 
not over 30 miles, - 5 cts. 
Over 30 to 100 miles, - - - 10 <c 
“ 100 « 220 « - - -' 15 “ 
“ 220 “ 400 « - - - 20 « 
“ 400 “ - - - 25 “ 
This strikes us as a Reform with a vengeance. 
The rates of Postage which we would propose, should 
be 5 cents per ounce for all letters 100 miles and under, 
10 “ “ “ over 100 miles and under 500, 
15 “ te (< over 500 miles. 
We are confident at these rates, and putting an end to 
the franking privilege, that the revenue would be in¬ 
creased rather than diminished, after the first year; 
and at any rate such a reform as we propose will pro¬ 
mote the dissemination of knowledge among us, tend to 
enlighten and elevate the character of the Republic, 
and take away the odious exclusiveness that now at¬ 
taches itself to this Department, and renders it so 
burdensome to the people. In aristocratic England, the 
postage formerly was twice what it is in the United 
States—now it is only one penny on letters transported 
to and from the remotest bounds of the United King¬ 
dom. 
City Manures. —The Corporation has let the clean¬ 
ing of the streets of this city for five years, at the rate 
of $64,500 per annum. Other parties offered to take 
the contract for much less than this, and one proposal 
was as low even as $24,935; but as the cleaning of the 
streets had cost, on an average, upwards of $106,000 
per annum for the last three years, the Corporation 
considered these very low offers as not made in good 
faith, and that the parties could not carry them into 
effect, and so rejected their propositions. They have 
entered their protest in the matter, and the refusal of 
giving the contract to the lowest bidder, has caused 
considerable dissatisfaction in certain quarters. 
