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COTSWOLD SHEEP.—CONVENTION OF BREEDERS.—FAIR AT FAYETTE. 
the total crop should be augmented 25 per cent, 
(and it could be increased nearly 50 per cent, with 
comparatively little additional expense), we should 
have an increase over the estimated crop of 1842, 
of more than 25,563,000 bushels. The advantages 
to result from the most intelligent and persevering 
attention to this crop, therefore, will commend it¬ 
self at once to every reflecting mind. 
R. L. Allen. 
Buffalo, June 25th, 1843. 
For the American Agriculturist. 
COTSWOLD SHEEP. 
Milton, May 29th, 1843. 
I would call the attention of breeders of mutton- 
sheep, to those lately imported by Mr. Sotham of 
Albany, one of which figures in Yol. II. of the 
Agriculturist for April, and one also in the first 
Volume of the Transactions of the N. Y. Agricul¬ 
tural Society; the latter took the first prize at 
Syracuse. I had the good fortune, through the 
introduction of a friend to Mr. Sotham, to procure 
the service of two of the Cotswold bucks for the 
last two years, and such has been the decided im¬ 
provement in our flock, that I can confidently rec¬ 
ommend them to all breeders of heavy mutton- 
sheep, as being superior to any I have yet seen; 
if there are any better, glad^ should I be to see 
them. 
That my judgment may not stand on bare asser¬ 
tion, I add, that the one we showed at the Fair in 
Dutchess county, took the first premium. In Ul¬ 
ster county, the first prize was also awarded to one 
by the judges, and was afterward given to another, 
he being excluded on the ground of his being im¬ 
ported ; and that one was a year old, out of Mr. 
Dunn’s buck bought of Mr. Sotham, pronounced by 
the judges the best they ever saw of his age; so 
that all the first prizes in Dutchess and Ulster were 
awarded the stock of Mr. Sotham. 
The lambs got by these bucks are of great prom¬ 
ise, some of them weighing over one hundred 
and fifty pounds at six months old. 
E. Hallock. 
CONVENTION OF BREEDERS. 
(circular.) 
Albany, June, 1843. 
The State Agricultural Society of New York, 
desirous that some fixed principles should be es¬ 
tablished as the basis of excellence in the various 
descriptions of farm-stock (without reference to 
their relative merits as breeds), have appointed the 
undersigned a committee with instructions to call 
the particular attention of breeders throughout the 
States, to the importance of the subject, and to 
make the necessary arrangements for a Convention 
to be held at the Library Room of the American 
Institute, in the city of New York, during its 16th 
annual Fair, in the month of October next, the day 
to be hereafter noticed; at which breeders of stock 
and those interested in Agriculture, are most re¬ 
spectfully urged to give their attendance, with a 
view to a full and free discussion of those forms, 
qualities, and properties, which most conduce to 
intrinsic value; and also that the distinctive char¬ 
acteristics of each separate breed maybe, as closely 
defined as possible. 
The society believe that the decision of such a 
meeting will offer to the agriculturist the best in¬ 
formation that can, at present, be elicited ; and 
which, they trust, may be so satisfactory to the 
mind of every intelligent breeder, as to lead to 
greater uniformity of action and opinion, and/wssz- 
bly become a standard with them, by which to 
judge and be judged, in all cases of competition. 
With these views of the subject, the committee 
hope you may deem it of sufficient importance to 
be present at the proposed Convention, and lend to 
its discussion the aid of your experience and talents. 
The committee will be obliged by any sugges¬ 
tions, in the interim, you may consider of sufficient 
importance to be communicated to them in relation 
to this subject. 
Francis Rotch, C. N. Bement. 
E. P. Prentice, George Vail, 
Lewis F. Allen. 
[U7 3 Editors of the several Agricultural papers 
in the United States, are requested to publish or 
notice the above. 
For the American Agriculturist. 
FAIR AT FAYETTE. 
Ingleside, Miss., May 23 d, 1843. 
My Dear Sir : I have just returned from attend¬ 
ing the Fair at Fayette. I reached there about 11 
o’clock, A. M. There was a great crowd present 
of planters and their families, and by the time we 
reached the extensive and pleasant bower erected 
for the occasion, gayly bedecked with flowers, we 
found it filled to overflowing with ladies, and Mr. 
Montgomery in the act of delivering his address, 
which, from what I could hear at the distance, 
seemed spirited and interesting. 
The display of flowers was good; but not by 
any means as extensive as was to be expected 
where so many young ladies were present, every 
one of whom should feel bound to appear with a 
large and well-arranged bouquet, of the best flowers 
she may be able to muster. Those bouquets I 
particularly noted, bore the cards of Mrs. Isaac R. 
Wade, Mrs. James J. Colyce, Miss Caroline Dun¬ 
bar, and Miss Mafiella Harrison. There were 
many others without cards, and baskets full, as I 
thought upon first sight, of fresh flowers, which, 
upon drawing near, I found were composed of 
worsted work. Only one of these was marked, 
that of Mrs. Charles Clark. On the same table 
were scattered beautiful specimens of net-work, 
lace, worsted work, &c., &c. A basket of cocoons 
and specimens of silk from Mrs. B. L. C. Wailes, 
juvenile socks by Miss Macgruder, and a substan¬ 
tial, comfortable-looking rag-carpet, by Mrs. 
Thompson B. Shaw. Mr. Robertson, who is about 
establishing a large factory of such goods near Fay¬ 
ette, showed some splendid specimens of blankets, 
flannel, cotton-girthing, jeans, and above all, a piece 
of strong and sufficient bagging, made from stained 
cotton, which is assuredly destined to drive every 
other article out of use. All the goods exhibited by 
