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AGRICULTURE IS THE MOST HEALTHY, THE MOST USEFUL , AND THE MOST NOBLE EMPLOYMENT OF MAN ~ Washington. 
PUBLISHED WEEKLY BY ALLEH & CO., 189 WATER ST. 
VOL. XII.—NO. 17.] 
NEW-YORK, WEDNESDAY, JULY 5, 1854. 
[NEW SERIES.—NO. 43. 
m»FOR PROSPECTUS, TERMS, §c., 
SEE LAST PAGE. 
■'ANNUAL SHOW OF THE NEW-YORK STATE 
AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY, 
To he held at Hamilton Square, between Third 
and Fourth Avenues, just above 60 th street . 
in Hew- Yorlc city, on Monday , Oct. 3d, and 
continue four days. 
Yhe are glad to see by the programme of the 
Society, just sent to us, that its officers are de¬ 
termined to make the next show worthy the at¬ 
tention of the American public. They have se¬ 
cured the cooperation and union for this occa¬ 
sion, of both the New-York Horticultural So¬ 
ciety, and the agricultural and stock, or animal 
departments of the American Institute. They 
have also opened the doors widely for competi¬ 
tion beyond the State, in all departments of the 
exhibition; and to meet the greatly extended 
list of premiums to exhibitors, over $8,000 have 
been appropriated, and the sum total of the So¬ 
ciety’s expenditures, inclusive of the temporary 
buildings and enclosures, which is a local ex¬ 
penditure, cannot foil short of about $20,000 for 
this one exhibition. A liberal appropriation 
this for a single show from an individual State. 
We trust this liberality will be properly appre¬ 
ciated and met on the part of exhibitors and the 
public, and that an interest will be excited, and 
an exhibition will be secured for beyond any 
that has ever before been witnessed by the 
American public. 
To increase the interest of the show, it would 
be wed for the amateurs, (not officers of the 
Society,) to organize sub lists of premiums en¬ 
tirely independent of the Society. The butchers 
may, for instance, adopt a list of prizes for fat 
cattle and other animals, that shall be entirely 
free from any rules of the Society, and con¬ 
trolled wholly by their own views, whether lo¬ 
cal or general. They may offer premiums for 
the greatest number of choice animals from any 
one exhibitor, with reference to bringing in 
large numbers of cattle to this market, thereby 
making it a matter of pecuniary advantage to 
their particular craft, as well as thus augment¬ 
ing the general interest of the show. 
Gentlemen wishing to procure fine matched 
horses, or stallions of any particular breed or 
excellence, by clubbing together, can make up 
an additional premium list, which the Society 
can have no objection to their offering, and thus 
call in large numbers of choice horses which 
their owners would be glad to bring where a suf¬ 
ficient inducement is offered. There is no rea¬ 
son why this particular occasion should not be 
made to combine all the interest of many such 
exhibitions as was made by the Horse Show at 
Springfield last autumn. The same principle 
may be adopted with cattle of each breed, sheep, 
and swine, and poultry; and if properly carried 
out, this would not only largely increase the 
specimens on the ground, but add greatly to the 
interests of the show. We should like to see 
coops of Sebrights, or Cochin Chinas, or Dork¬ 
ings, pitted against each other by way of sweep- 
stakes. There may be a crow and cackle got 
up that may be heard from Maine to Georgia on 
the south, and as far as Wisconsin on the west. 
From all these States we confidently look for 
choice specimens of various kinds of stock and 
agricultural productions. We shall be greatly 
disappointed, too, if we have not a better show 
of mules than has ever been offered to the pub¬ 
lic. Large shows of these animals are held fre¬ 
quently in Kentucky, where as many as 1500 
are sold at one public auction; but we have in 
our vicinity some of the choicest from the above 
and other States, besides those we have reared 
among ourselves; and we shall be greatly dis¬ 
appointed if some of the choicest mules in the 
world do not grace our show grounds. 
Nowhere are fruits, and flowers, and vegeta¬ 
bles cultivated in greater profusion, variety, and 
perfection, than in the neighborhood of New- 
York, taking that term to embrace such a space 
as can be reached by steamboats or railways in 
4 or 5 hours—a distance of 50 to 150 miles. 
All these may be brought to our show grounds 
with little expense and no injury, and of such 
we shall expect large and choice specimens. Let 
every intelligent man or woman select some one 
or more articles which they can furnish of good 
quality, and send to the exhibition. If it is the 
best, they will get the premium, and if not, they 
ought to know that somebody is in advance of 
them. If liberal minded, they will rejoice that 
there have been others more successful than 
themselves; and if ambitious, they will see to it, 
that they produce as good another year. 
Of manufactures, domestic and agricultural, 
we expect to see large contributions. Nearly 
every variety are produced in our vicinity, and 
most of them highly meritorious of their kinds. 
Nowhere can larger assortments, or of more 
general excellence be got together than here; 
and we think these may be relied on as a cer¬ 
tain and interesting additions to the show 
grounds. 
In the way of cultivators of the soil, ten hours 
of boat or railroad can bring together an 
amount of bone and muscle, experience and 
brain, which cannot be surpassed on the face of 
the globe. Large numbers of our professional 
men, editors,business people, gentlemen of leis¬ 
ure, &c., have their snug cottages and cultivated 
grounds attached; and many have large forms 
under cultivation, which are models of taste, and 
are wrought and managed with great intelli¬ 
gence and assiduity; and there is the mass of 
our large and small farmers and market gar¬ 
deners, who count by myriads, who can each 
bring something to gratify the eye and inform 
the mind on this occasion. We hope none of 
these will be lacking in interest and exertion to 
render this show what it ought to be; and they 
will find an adequate reward in their own and 
their country’s improvement, and the gratifica¬ 
tion of all. 
FARMS OF MESSRS. B. AND C. T. HAINES. 
These farms lie in Elizabethtown, N. J., and 
comprise about 250 acres, within a short dis¬ 
tance of the railroad station, besides large pas¬ 
ture fields about two miles off. The soil is fer¬ 
tile, varying in texture from a light sandy to a 
stiff reddish clay loam; most of it, however, is 
intermediate from these extremes, and is ex¬ 
ceedingly well adapted for grass and general 
cultivation. Ten years ago only, Mr. R. T. 
IIaixes, the father of the above gentlemen, took 
this property in hand, and his improvements 
upon it for so short a period are worthy of much 
praise. During this time, he has built a fine, 
large house, in the gothic style, for his own res¬ 
idence, a conservatory, grape-house, a large, 
commodious barn, stables, and a poultry, and 
other out-houses. Similar buildings have also 
been erected for his son, Mr. Benjamin Haines, 
who owns and occupies a part of the farm on 
the opposite side of the road. The grounds are 
handsomely laid out around these buildings, and 
thickly planted with a great variety of ever¬ 
green and deciduous trees, while shrubbery 
and beautiful flowers ornament the lawns. 
Most of these trees have grown surprisingly 
for so short a time, and have already got to be 
so large and close together, as to form a dense 
mass of verdure, thirty feet high or more, be¬ 
tween the residence of Mr. R. T. Haines and 
the road, and require considerable thinning. 
Among these trees we noticed English and 
American Elms, the magnificent Tulip or Lirio- 
dendron, several varieties of Maples, English 
Planes, Copper Beach, Norway Spruce, Silver 
and Scotch Firs, Larches, Cedar of Lebanon 
and Deodara, Irish Yew, Weymouth Pines, 
Cypress, the Oaks, &c. Better grown or more 
perfect specimens of Evergreen trees we have 
never seen. 
In the rear of the mansion near by, is a large 
garden, well stocked with vegetables and 
the small fruits; and in the rear of that, 
cherries, plums, peaches, and about nine 
hundred pear trees of the best kinds, and 
such as upon experience have been found most 
worthy of cultivation. Of the rarer kinds many 
