280 AGRICULTURAL AND HORTICULTURAL SHOW AND FAIR OF THE AMERICAN INSTITUTE. 
For the best portable machine for watering - gardens, 
Transactions of the American Institute. 
For the best specimen of fruit and flower stands, 
Flower Garden Directory. 
For the best wire-work for training creeping plants, 
Transactions of the American Institute. 
For a display of rustic work, American Agricultu¬ 
rist. — 
To the Competitors for Premiums in Agriculture , at the 
11 ih Annual Fair of the American Institute. 
The act of the Legislature of this State, of May 5th, 
1841, requires that “before any premium shall be de¬ 
livered, the person claiming the same, or to whom the 
same may be awarded, shall deliver in writing to the 
president of the society, as accurate a description of 
the process in preparing the soil, including the quan¬ 
tity and quality of manure applied, and in raising the 
crop, or in feeding the animal, as may be, and also of 
the expense and product of the crop, or of increase in 
value of the animal, with the view of showing accu¬ 
rately the profit of cultivating the crop, or feeding or 
fattening the animal.” 
You are requested to furnish such description to the 
clerk at the time of entry. 
BOARD OF AGRICULTURE OF THE AMERICAN 
INSTITUTE. 
Jeremiah Johnson, 
Thomas Addis Emmet, 
Henry Whitney, 
Nicholas Wyckoff, 
Edward Clark, 
Philip Schuyler, 
Thomas Bridgeman, 
R. S. Livingston, 
J. Lawrence Smith, 
Henry A. Field, 
W. J. Townsend, 
Ralph Lockwood, 
Samuel Stevens, 
Robert L. Pell, 
D. J. Browne, 
Henry Meigs. 
PROGRAMME. 
Friday and Saturday, Oct. 4th and 5th.—Days for 
receiving contributions for competition or exhibition, 
with the exception of cattle, stock, flowers, &c. 
FIRST WEEK OF THE EXHIBITION. 
Monday, Oct. 7th, at 12 o’clock, M., the garden will 
be opened to the public. At half past 7 o’clock, P. M., 
an address will be delivered in the great saloon, by a 
distinguished citizen. The evening will close by a 
splendid display of fireworks. 
Tuesday, Oct. 8th.—The exhibition will commence 
at 9 o’clock, A. M., and close at 10, P. M., which will 
be the hours of opening and closing during the Show. 
A short address at half past 7 o’clock, P. M. 
Wednesday, Oct. 9th.—The second annual conven¬ 
tion of silk culturists and manufacturers will be held 
at the Repository of the American Institute, in the 
Park, at half past 10 o’clock, A. M. An address on 
silk will be delivered in Niblo’s saloon, at half past 7 
o’clock, P. M. 
Thursday, Oct. 10th.—Silk Convention continued. 
Friday, Oct. 11th.—A national convention of far¬ 
mers and gardeners will be held at the Repository of 
the Institute, in the Park, at half past 10 o’clock, A.M. 
An address on agriculture at half past 7 o’clock, P. M. 
Saturday, Oct. 12th.—Convention of farmers and 
gardeners continued. Address in Niblo’s Saloon at 
half past 7 o’clock, P. M. Fireworks at half past 9 
o’clock. 
SECOND WEEK OF THE EXHIBITION.— Cattle SllOW at 
Vauxhall Garden , fyc. 
Monday, Oct. 14th.—List of horses, cattle, and 
other live stock, must be in possession of the man¬ 
agers at Vauxhall Garden, to insure their being placed 
on the catalogue. If previously forwarded to the cor¬ 
responding secretary of the Institute, they will be at¬ 
tended to. Pedigrees, signed by owners, required. 
Tuesday, Oct. 15th.—Making catalogue of cattle, 
See. Also, ninth annual plowing match. Testing of 
plows, and spading match, in the vicinity of New York. 
An address will be delivered in the field. 
Wednesday, Oct. 16th.—The exhibition of horses, 
cattle, &c., will open at Vauxhall Garden. Cattle 
must be on the ground by 9 o’clock, A. M. 
Thursday, Oct. 17th.—Last day of cattle exhibition. 
Address on Agriculture, in Niblo’s Saloon, at half past 
7 o’clock, P. M. 
Friday, Oct. 18th.—Sale of cattle and other live 
stock by private contract. Anniversary Address by the 
Hon. A. H. H. Stuart, of Virginia, at half past 7 
o’clock, P. M. 
Other interesting operations and displays will occupy 
portions of the time from day to day during the Show, 
which will be seasonably noticed in future circulars, 
and in the public prints. 
To the individual or company who shall exhibit the 
greatest and best variety of useful machines and imple¬ 
ments for farming .... a gold medal. 
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Horticultural implements, 
Do. 
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Woollen fabrics, 
Do. 
Do. 
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Cotton “ 
Do. 
Do. 
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Silk “ 
Do. 
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Hardware, 
Do. 
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Household manufactures, 
Do. 
Extra premiums of $10 for each of the five best in¬ 
ventions, adjudged by a committee appointed for that 
purpose, to be the most useful among the new inven¬ 
tions of the Seventeenth Show. 
Valuable American seedlings of fruit and culinary 
vegetables will command the attention of the man¬ 
agers. Also, the exhibition of American madder, woad, 
and indigo, with their modes of culture. Also, Amer¬ 
ican water-rotted and manufactured hemp. 
For the purpose of examining standing crops in 
fields, orchards, vineyards, gardens, &c., a travelling 
committee of the Show will be appointed, who will 
make examinations within convenient distances, and 
report. Seasonable notices should be left with the cor¬ 
responding secretary of the Institute, by those desirous 
of being visited. 
A cordial invitation is hereby respectfully extended 
to every friend of industry and improvement in the 
United States—to the sages, patriots, and statesmen of 
every State, that each and all may come and partici¬ 
pate, and swell the sublime gathering, and make it 
what it should be—the grand American Jubilee of In¬ 
dustry and the Arts. 
MANAGERS. 
John Campbell, 
Jas. Van Norden, 
Adoniram Chandler, 
Edwd. T. Backhouse, 
H. W. Childs, 
Joseph Curtis, 
James Hamilton, 
Geo. R. J. Bowdoin, 
Geo. Endicott, 
Wm. Hall, 
Joseph Torrey, 
Jas. R. Smith, 
Martin E. Thompson, 
Isaac Fryer, 
John D. Ward, 
Edward Clark, 
Robert Lovett, 
Gurdon J. Leeds, 
A. D, Frye, 
T. B. Stillman, 
Joseph Cowdin, 
Jas. J. Mapes, 
Geo. C. De Kay, 
C. C. Haven, 
Chas. Mapes, 
R. M. Hoe, 
W. P. Disosway, 
Geo. F. Barnard, 
Henry Meigs, 
T. B. Wakeman, 
