150 
NEW YORK STATE AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
cleaning, and harvesting the crop ; the amount of the 
crop determined by actual weight or measurement; and 
the expense of cultivation. The land shall be meas¬ 
ured by some sworn surveyor, and the claimant of the 
premium, with two other persons who assisted in meas¬ 
uring, shall certify under oath as to the quantity pro¬ 
duced from the piece of land mentioned in the certificate 
of the surveyor. 
DISCRETIONARY PREMIUMS, 
Will be awarded for such implements, products, &c., 
not enumerated, as shall be deemed worthy of notice 
or encouragement. 
COMPETITION FROM OTHER STATES. 
Premiums in form of silver medals, open to compe¬ 
tition from other states, will be given 
For the best bull and cow of any breed—Second best, 
2 vols. Transactions. 
For the best yoke of working-oxen—Second best, 2 
vols. Trans. 
For the best pair of fat .cattle—Second best, 2 vols. 
Trans. 
For the best pair of matched horses—Second best, 2 
vols. Trans. 
For the best pen of 5 fine-woolled ewes—Second best, 
2 vols. Trans. 
For the best fine-woolled buck—Second best, 2 vols. 
Trans. 
REGULATIONS. 
The premiums for essays and agricultural imple¬ 
ments, will be open to citizens of other states; all oth¬ 
ers will be confined to residents of this state, who arc 
members of this society, or who may become so by the 
payment of one dollar on entering their articles. 
The trial of plows will take place at Poughkeepsie, 
on Monday, the 16th day of September. 
No premiums will be paid on any animals or articles 
taken away before the close of the fair. 
Premiums not claimed within four months after they 
are awarded, will be considered as donations to the so¬ 
ciety. 
All persons who intend to exhibit cattle, horses, 
sheep, or swine, should give notice to Thomas L. Da¬ 
vies, Poughkeepsie, or Henry O’Reilly, recording 
secretary, Albany, previous to the 10th of September, 
that the necessary arrangements may be made for their 
accommodation—and all animals must be on the ground 
by 9 o’clock, A. M., of the 18th September. 
All those who intend to compete for the premiums on 
agricultural implements, butter and cheese, sugar, 
cocoons, silk, &c., should have their specimens on the 
ground on the 17th, that they may be deposited in their 
appropriate places, and the rooms suitably arranged on 
the day previous to the fair. 
Applicants for premiums are requested to pay par¬ 
ticular attention to the notes attached to the premiums 
on dairy cows, fat cattle, and fat sheep, butter, and 
cheese, field crops, maple sugar, &c. 
The statements required from those who compete for 
field crops, must be sent to Henry O’Reilly, record¬ 
ing secretary, Albany, previous to the 1st of January, 
1845, and the premiums will be awarded at the annual 
meeting of the society, on the third Wednesday of Jan¬ 
uary. 
Competitors for the premiums on essays, must for¬ 
ward their manuscripts to the recording secretary, Al- \ 
bany, previous to the 1st of January, 1845, free of pos¬ 
tage. 
No premium will be awarded, unless, in the opinion 
of the judges of the class in which it is offered, the an¬ 
imal or article is worthy of such premium. 
Prize-animals and implements at the previous exhi¬ 
bitions, will be allowed to compete for the prizes ; but 
they must receive a higher prize, or in a different class, 
to entitle them to a premium. Should the same pre¬ 
mium heretofore given them be awarded, they will re¬ 
ceive a certificate to that effect, instead of the prize. 
Animals and other articles offered for competition, 
must be labelled with the names and residence of the 
owners at full length. 
CIRCULAR. 
State Agricultural Hall, Old State House, 
Albany, Feb. 1844.—The State Agricultural Society 
now occupy the Hall in the old State House, contem¬ 
plated by the concurrent resolutions of the last legisla¬ 
ture. The hall is the easterly one on the first story 
(that formerly occupied by the comptroller)—the re 
mainder of the edifice being occupied, as this room is 
yet partially occupied, by the State Geological Col¬ 
lection. 
Officers and members of county societies, and friends 
of agriculture from other states as well as this, are in¬ 
vited to visit the hall when passing through Albany; 
and agricultural committees of the Senate and Assem¬ 
bly, as well as the committees of the Society itself, will 
find the hall ready for their reception at their evening 
meetings. The returns which county societies are 
required by law to make to the State Society, and other 
communications touching the farming operations in the 
several counties, may be left at the hall in charge of 
the recording secretary; and all premiums awarded by 
the society, or any other claims upon it, will be paid on 
presentation there to the treasurer, Thomas Hill house. 
It is the desire of the New York State Agricultural 
Society to maintain correspondence and exchange pub¬ 
lications with similar societies in other states and 
nations ; and communications are respectfully invited 
from practical farmers and horticulturists, and from the 
friends of science and art generally, in reference to any 
of the varied relations of agriculture in its connexion 
with private happiness and public prosperity. 
The officers of the county agricultural societies, see* 
retaries especially, are respectfully requested to for¬ 
ward to the state society information respecting the 
operations of those societies, and of their executive 
committees, together with the names and residences of 
officers elected; and also any newspapers containing 
articles calculated to promote the interests of the farm¬ 
ing community, and to realize the expectations which 
influenced the legislature when passing the beneficent 
law of 1841 for the encouragement of agriculture. 
Those officers are likewise requested to call on the 
editors in their several counties., with a request for the 
publication or notice of the premium list offered by the 
State Agricultural Society, with the view of exciting 
wide-spread attention to the next annual State Fair 
which is to be held in Poughkeepsie, on the 18th am. 
19th of September, Gentlemen to whom copies of this 
circular are addressed, are requested to solicit an in¬ 
sertion in the agricultural department of the newspa¬ 
pers in their respective counties; and also to post a 
copy of it at the neighboring postoffice or in some 
other public place. 
As it is the purpose of the State Society to carry into 
immediate effect the project of forming an Agricultural 
Museum —a collection that will embrace all attainable 
varieties of articles interesting to the farming commu¬ 
nity—the friends of agricultural improvement, many of 
whom have often manifested willingness to contribute 
to this object by the donation of suitable specimens 
