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fusion, and as usual attracted much attention on the 
part of the fair sex. 
Trial of Plows and Plowing-Match. —W e have 
done making any record of these as at present con¬ 
ducted, other than to say, that whatever attention is 
I bestowed upon them, is just so much time and 
money thrown away, so far as the good of the pub¬ 
lic. is concerned. 
The Address. —The late Hon. Silas Wright was 
appointed to deliver the address, but his sudden and 
lamented death a few weeks previous to the show 
prevented this. Yet with his accustomed punctu¬ 
ality in the fulfilment of all public duties, he had 
finished writing it the day before he died. His 
widow furnished the President of the Society with 
a copy, and the same was read by Mr. Dix. The 
ceremony of doing this was quite imposing, and 
came off at one o’clock, P. M. A high platform was 
raised underneath and at the head of the great tent 
on which Mr. Wright’s bust was placed, by the side 
of which stood the eloquent reader, and around him to 
the right and left, were seated the officers of the 
Society, together with a large number of distinguish¬ 
ed citizens of this and the neighboring States. The 
space below was crowded by about 4,000 specta¬ 
tors. The address was written with much ability, 
and in the strong compact style of its distinguished 
author. Previous to the commencement of its read- 
" ing, Mr. Dix delivered a brief and touching eulogy 
of the lamented deceased. After the reading was 
finished, Mr. John A. King, of Long Island, moved 
a resolution, requesting the widow of Mr. Wright, 
to allow the Society to retain the manuscript of the 
address to be placed among its archives in their 
rooms at Albany. Following this, he spoke of our 
untimely loss with great eloquence and feeling, 
drawing tears from the eyes of nearly all present. 
Mr. L. F. Allen, of Black Rock, next introduced a 
resolution, that the Society should prepare a brief 
memoir of Mr. Wright, and that the same shall be 
printed in the next annual volume of their Transac¬ 
tions. To this he added some excellent remarks on 
the subject in question, which were received with 
commendation. 
The awards of the several Committees, or Judges, 
were next read, together with their reports, when 
the Society adjourned to the annual meeting at Al¬ 
bany, in January next. 
Amount of Money Received. —As near as could be 
ascertained when we left the ground, this would 
amount to about $3,700, at least $600 short of last 
year’s receipts, and probably $2,300 short of what 
they would have been had the show been held at Troy, 
to which place it ought in justice to have gone. 
The number of spectators present were variously 
estimated. We think they could not have been less 
than 30,000. 
Upon the whole, the show passed off delightfully, 
and has no doubt greatly conduced to the benefit of 
the agriculture of the State. To say nothing of the 
advantage to the farmers of seeing so many choice 
animals and products of various kinds, the bare as¬ 
semblage of so many directly interested in agricul¬ 
ture, and the opportunity of exchanging ideas with 
each other on the subjects which all have so much 
at heart, cannot but be productive of much good. 
Implements and stock to the amount of several 
thousands of dollars were sold during the three 
days of the show. 
Quite a number of distinguished persons were 
present from our own and the neighboring States. 
Among these, we noticed *fcx-Presidents Van Buren 
and Tyler, Governor Young, the Judges of our 
Courts, Members of the Legislature, and others too 
numerous to mention. Several delegates were 
there also from various Agricultural and Horticul¬ 
tural Societies. 
Aside from the opportunity all had of tasting of 
the far-famed medicinal waters of Saratoga, there 
were a great variety of amusements for the people 
at large—such as the exhibition of General Tom 
Thumb, the menagerie, &c. So far as we have 
heard, the hotel-keepers did their duty, and all were 
well supplied with beds and a good table, at the 
regular charges fixed upon and advertised before¬ 
hand. The railroad agents did their best to for¬ 
ward all passengers, stock, and implements, and 
were highly accommodating and urbane in all their 
movements. We cannot but express our thanks to 
them, as well as the gentlemanly captains of the 
superb steam-boats, the Columbia and Empire, 
which run the night line from Troy to this city. 
Short-Horn Stock. —We recently saw a fine 
three-fourth bred heifer, only 18 months old, and 
exclusively grass-fed, for which her owner told us 
he had been offered fifty dollars by a butcher. We 
conceive this to be a fair test of the comparative 
value of improved and unimproved stock. How 
many native grass-fed cattle would bring half this 
price at this age ? And how long will it take our 
farmers to understand their true interest, by engraft 
ing the improvements of eminent breeders upon 
their own herds ? 
Bean-Harvest. —There is no necessity of wait¬ 
ing until beans are ripe enough to shell out before 
you harvest them. 
From experience and observation we are satisfied 
that if you pull them when the bean gets mode¬ 
rately hard and the leaves become yellow, and then 
stack them up loosely by putting two or three 
stakes up so as to keep them in place, they will 
ripen perfectly, be full as hard, plump, and heavy, 
as if suffered to stand longer in the field, and per¬ 
haps get touched with the frost. 
A nip of “ Old Jack’s” teeth is death to beans, 
and they had better be secured before he comes 
sneaking around in the night. It is not much mat¬ 
ter how the stack is formed if it only allows them 
to lie lightly, so that the air can draw through 
them. In this position they may remain until suffi¬ 
ciently dry to thrash.— Exchange Paper. 
Extracts from the Farmers’ Creed. —W e 
believe in small farms and thorough cultivation. 
We believe in large crops which leave the land 
better than they found it. 
We believe in going to the bottom of things, and 
therefore in deep plowing. 
We believe that the best fertility of the soil is 
the spirit of industry, enterprise, and intelligence; 
without this, lime, marl, plaster, bones, and green 
manures will be of little use. 
