AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST. 
379 
STATE AGRICULTURAL SHOWS IN 1854. 
Name. Where held. Date. 
Illinois, Springfield, 
Kentucky, Lexington, 
Lower Canada, Quebec, 
Vermont, Brattleborough, 
Ohio, Newark, 
Michigan, Detroit, 
Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, 
Missouri, Boonville, 
New-York, New-York, 
New-Hampshire, 
Maryland, Baltimore, 
Indiana, Madison, 
Wisconsin, Watertown, 
Connecticut, New-Haven, 
North Caronina, Raleigh, 
Tennessee,(East,) Knoxville, 
Georgia, Augusta, 
Iowa, Fairfield, 
National Cattle 
Show, Springfield, Ohio, 
Sept. 12-15 
“ 12-16 
“ 12-16 
“ 13-15 
“ 16-22 
“ 26-29 
“ 27-29 
Oct. 
2-6 
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3-6 
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3-6 
u 
3-6 
tt 
4-7 
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4-7 
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10-13 
tt 
17-20 
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18-19 
tt 
23-26 
tt 
25 
tt 
25-27 
New-York County Shows. 
Oneida, 
Rome, 
Sept. 19-21 
“ 19-21 
Rensselaer, 
Lansingburgh, 
Delaware, 
Delhi, 
It 
20-21 
FrankliD, 
Malone, 
(( 
20-21 
Jefferson, 
Watertown, 
u 
21-22 
Washington, 
No. White Creek, 
tt 
21-22 
-Dutchess, 
Washington Hollow, “ 
24-27 
Albany, 
Albany, 
tt 
26-28 
Putnam, 
Carmel, 
tt 
26-27 
Columbia, 
Chatham- Four-Corners, 
29-30 
Ohio County Shows. 
Guernsey, Cambridge, 
Sept. 
it 
6-8 
Pickaway, 
Circleville, 
6-8 
Clinton, 
Wilmington, 
it 
12-13 
Delaware, 
Delaware, 
tt 
13-14 
Medina, 
Medina, 
ft 
13-14 
Ashtabula, 
Jefferson, 
tt 
26-28 
Lucas, 
Toledo, 
tt 
26-27 
Sandusky, 
Clyde, 
tt 
26-27 
Hardin, 
Kenton, 
u 
27-28 
Lorain, 
Elyria, 
tt 
27-28 
Richland, 
Mansfield, 
tt 
27-28 
Miami, 
Troy, 
3,)Claridon, 
<< 
27-29 
Geauga, (Fret 
<< 
27-29 
Mahoning, 
Canfield, 
ti 
28-29 
Summit, 
Akron, 
23-29 
Belmont, 
St. Clairsville, 
Oct. 
3-5 
Logan, 
Bellefontain, 
it 
3-5 
Clarke, 
Springfield, 
ct 
3-5 
Clermont, 
Bantam, 
tt 
3-6 
Columbiana, 
New-Lisbon, 
u 
3-5 
Morgan, 
McConnellsville, 
tt 
3-4 
Ross, 
Chilicoth, 
tt 
3-5 
Hamilton, 
Carthage, 
tt 
4-6 
Wood, 
Ashland, 
Portageville, 
tt 
4-5 
Ashland, 
(t 
4-5 
Geaugo, 
Burton, 
4-6 
Henry, 
Napoleon, 
u 
5-6 
Holmes, 
Miller sburgh, 
u 
5-6 
Gallia, 
Gallipolis, 
tt 
5-6 
Harrison, 
Cadiz, 
tt 
5-6 
Trumbull, 
Warren, 
tt 
5-6 
Licking, 
Newark, 
tt 
11-12 
Preble, 
New-Paris, 
tt 
11-13 
Coshocton, 
Coshocton, 
tt 
12-13 
Defiance, 
Defiance, 
tt 
12-13 
Carroll, 
Carrollton, 
tt 
17-19 
Pennsylvania County Shows. 
Dauphin, 
Harrisburg, 
Sept. 13-15 
Delaware, 
Chester, 
tt 
14-16 
Mercer, 
Mercer, 
tt 
19-20 
York, 
tt 
20-22 
Monongabala Valley, Monong.’ City, “ 
28-29 
Alleghany, Pa., Pittsburg, 
Oct. 
3-6 
Tioga, 
Somerset, 
Tioga Valley, 
tt 
4-5 
Somerset, 
tt 
5 
Lawrence, 
tt 
11-13 
Westmoreland, Greensburg, 
tt 
11-13 
Montgomery, 
Fullon, 
Springtown, 
McConnellsburg, 
U 
26-28 
Ni.w-Jersey County Shows. 
Cumberland, 
Bridgeton, 
Sept. 15 
Gloucester, Woodbury, “ 19 
Monmouth, Freehold, “ 21 
County Shows Miscellaneous. 
Hillsborough, N. H., Nashua, Sept. 
Rockingham, N. H., Exeter, “ 
Grafton, N. H., Lyme, “ 
Cheshire, N. H., Keene, 
Merrimack, N. H., Fisherville, “ 
Fairfield, Ct., Stamford, “ 
North Aroostook, Me., Presque Isle, “ 
Cass, Mich., Cassopo, Oct. 
Livingston, Mich., Howell 1 “ 
26-27 
13-14 
21-22 
26- 27 
27- 28 
26-29 
4-5 
3-4 
3-5 
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From the Mark Lane Express, Monday, July 31. 
REVIEW OF THE BRITISH CORN TRADE. 
The depression in the Wheat trade amounted 
to a panic in the early part of the week, and 
forced sales were in many cases made at a de¬ 
cline of 6s. to 10s. per qr. on the rates current 
eight days before. Within the last few days 
sellers have shown less disposition to press busi¬ 
ness, and the downward movement appears for 
the present to be arrested. That there are 
good grounds for concluding that quotations of 
Wheat may range very much lower than they 
have done since the harvest of 1853, if this 
year’s crop should prove abundant and be well 
secured, is self-evident; but many vicisitudes 
may yet take place before so desirable a result 
shall have been accomplished; indeed, it is by 
no means certain that, even with fine weather 
for the ingathering, the produce will be such as 
to put the country in the position it usually 
holds at this period of the year in regard to 
stocks. It can scarcely be questioned that 
farmers, as a body, hold very little Wheat; 
here and there a wealthy individual may have 
been induced, by the possibility of higher 
prices, to hold back; but this is certainly the 
exception, and any one who travels through the 
country cannot help observing the almost com¬ 
plete clearance of the stack-yards. We think, 
therefore, that it must be admitted that the 
growers will have little or nothing on hand by 
the time the new Wheat shall have become 
available. As yet, only a few patches of Tala- 
vera Wheat has been cut. Reaping will not, 
under the most favorable circumstances, be 
general fora fortnight, and the fields will proba¬ 
bly not be cleared by the 1st of September. 
To act as if all danger were over, is, to say the 
least, somewhat permaturc. We sincerely trust 
that nothing may occur to detract from the 
present cheering prospects. We believe that 
the yield will be a good average, and the qual¬ 
ity, with auspicious weather, fine ; but it must 
be recollected that as yet hardly a sheaf of corn 
has been housed, and a great deal must there- 
