SHOW AND FAIR OF THE NEW YORK STATE AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY FOR 1843 . 
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barns, back buildings, and sheds, a discretionary 
premium of $5 
For the committee, 
L. B. Langworthy, Chairman, 
BUTTER AND CHEESE. 
For the best sample of butter, not less than 80 lbs., 
a premium was awarded to H. Morrison, of 
Orange co. $8 
2d, to A. D. Porter, of Canandaigua, Ontario co. 5 
3d, to D. Wood, West Bloomfield, “ 5 
4th, to Wm. Sternberg, Henrietta, Monroe co. 5 
5th, to Isaac Seely, “ “ 4 
6th, to D. PifFard, of Piffardiani, Liv. co. 2 Vols. and 2 
7th, to E. S. Bartlett, of Romulus, Seneca co. 3 
For the best cheese, to Thomas Burch, Little Falls, 
Herkimer co. $8 
2d, to Perez Hathaway, Farmington, Ontario co. 7 
3d, to H. Arnold & Son, Hamburgh, Erie co. 6 
4th, to Jerome Ives, Hownsfield, Jefferson co. 5 
5th, to Newberry Bronson, Warsaw, Wyoming co. 5 
6th, to John Lapham, Farmington 2 Vols. Tr. and 2 
[Several lots of butter were so nearly alike, that 
the committee could not agree which should have 
the preference; they therefore divided the pre¬ 
miums among them equally. The report of the 
committee was inadvertently sent to Albany before 
we had copied the remarks.] 
MAPLE SUGAR. 
The committee on maple and cornstalk sugar 
respectfully report, that only four specimens of 
maple sugar have been presented to their consid¬ 
eration, of which one by Joel Woodworth, of 
Watertown, Jefferson co., is of very superior qual¬ 
ity, both on account of its whiteness, approaching 
to the best refined loaf sugar, and on account of 
its excellent grain and flavor. They award the 
first premium of $15. 
The second premium of $10 they award to Da¬ 
vid Dow, of Batavia, Genesee co. 
The third and fourth premiums they do not 
award, because the quantity presented by Asahel 
Dow, of Bethany, Genesee co., and Charles A. 
Higgins, also of Bethany, was so small as not to 
come within the rule of the society, requiring 50 
lbs. of sugar as the quantity to be presented to en¬ 
title to a premium. 
The committee have great pleasure in stating 
that Mr. M. Adams, of Ogden, in Monroe co., has 
gone into the experiment of manufacturing sugar 
of cornstalks ; and for that purpose has been cut¬ 
ting, during the present season, one acre of the 
“ eight-rowed yellow northern corn he has con¬ 
structed an iron mill for crushing the stalk and ex¬ 
pressing the juice, which answers the purpose ad¬ 
mirably ; but it is yet too early in the season to 
know the result of the experiment, as a part only 
of the cornstalks have been gathered and manu¬ 
factured, and the remainder are yet standing in the 
field. 
Mr. Adams has, however, already made about 
400 wt. of sugar, a sample of which he has sub¬ 
mitted to your committee, and which, though not 
yet clarified, appears to be of a fair quality, ca¬ 
pable of equalling the best of sugar made from the 
cane. The stalks still on the ground he thinks 
will make 400 wt. more sugar; but had it not 
been for the excessive drought which has pre¬ 
vailed in his section of the country, he is satisfied 
that the acre planted and experimented upon by 
him, would have produced 1000 weight of sugar, 
which was the rate yielded by two rods of the 
land which he measured off, the proceeds of which 
he worked up by itself. 
Upon the whole, Mr. Adams is perfectly satis¬ 
fied that sugar can be made in this part of the 
country, from cornstalks, of superior quality and 
flavor, and equal in every respect to the best sugar 
made from the cane, and so as to remunerate well 
for its manufacture. He proposes, at the next 
meeting of the society, to present a full report of 
his present experiment, and your committee have 
great confidence that it will be of such a nature as 
not only to entitle Mr. Adams to the premium 
offered by the society, but to the praise of being 
the first to carry into actual operation an experi¬ 
ment that has been anticipated as the source of 
great wealth and benefit to the agricultural in¬ 
terests. 
John Greig, ) 
Roswell Randall, > Committee - 
A. B. Dunlap, J 
REPORT ON VEGETABLES. 
Competitors’ Names, and Articles offered. 
Hugh Mulholland, Brighton, fine, long, blood beets, 
potatoes, parsneps, carrots, onions, cabbage, and pur¬ 
ple egg-plant. 
Wm. Hamilton, beets, tomatoes, onions, parsneps, 
and pumpkins. 
J. Medberry, Valparaiso, winter squash. 
H. N. Langworthy, winter crook-neck squashes, 12 
varieties of seedling potatoes, water-melons, fine sam¬ 
ple of pink-eye potatoes, a new variety of musk-melon, 
of exquisite flavor ; specimens of a variety of Spanish 
tobacco, the seed of which was received from Mr. Ells¬ 
worth, of the patent office, some of it growing and 
some partially cured, of fine appearance, the quality 
not yet tested. 
Samuel Ashton, white fieid-carrots, celery, table- 
beets. 
Ira Lee, onions, beets, and samples of seed corn. 
Nathaniel Hayward, sweet corn, blood and turnep- 
beets, Meshannock potatoes. 
John Adams, white and red cabbage, onions, and 
tomatoes. 
C. F. Crosman, sweet corn, blood beets, of extra 
length, white field-carrots,., summer, crook-neck, and 
scollop squashes, onions, and Bassano beets. 
Theodore Backus, onions, cabbages, and winter 
squashes, 
John Donnellan, Minorca musk-melons, and cab¬ 
bage. 
E. Waugh, leeks, celery, and curled parsley. 
Richard Cooper, curled parsley, carrots, white solid 
celery, melons. 
James Bradford, tomatoes, parsneps, celery, 2 varie¬ 
ties of potatoes, and vegetable oysters. 
Wm. Webb, beets, curled parsley. 
Alfred Fitch, pink-eye potatoes. 
C. S. Walling, several varieties of beets. 
Michael Elsenbech, fine specimens of cabbage, po¬ 
tatoes, ruta-baga, and turneps. 
