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TOWN AND INDEPENDENT FAIRS. 
Horse Fair.Cleveland. Sept, 
Union Society .Cuyahoga Falls — 
Wellington.(Lorain Co). 
Wheeling Island.Virginia . . 
Twinsbtirgh.(Summit Co). 
Salem .(Columbiana Co).. 
Madison.(Franklin Co). 
Belmont.(Belmont Co). 
Alliance. .(Alliance Co). 
Belleville.(Richland Co). 
Hinckley.(Medina Co). 
Philadelphia .Philadelphia. 
Plymouth... (Richland Co). 
Richfield.(Summit Co). 
Conneaut.(Ashtabula Co).... 
Marlboro...(Stark Co). 
Orwell.Ashtabula. Oct. 
PENNSYLVANIA. 
Allegheny.Pittsburg. Sept. 4- 
Philadelphia.Powelton, (W. Phila.) 25- 
Berks.Reading. " 25- 
Bucks.Newtown. " 26- 
Highland (Cambria CoJJohnstown. " 27- 
Lawrenoe.Newcastle. Oct. 2- 
Montgomery.Springtown. " 2- 
Indiana.Indiana. " 3- 
Crawford.Couneautville. " 3 
TENNESSEE. 
Marshall.Lewisburg. Sept 11 
Sumner.Gallatin. 
Bedford.Shelby ville. 
Smith.Rome... 
Putnam. .Cookville. Oct. 
Maury.Columbia. 
Warren.McMinnsville...... 
Giles.Pulaski. 
Shelby.Memphis. . 
Gibson.Trenton. 
VERMONT. 
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-28 
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AddisoR .... 
Sept. 5— 7 
Rutland ... 
6—7 
Caledonia... 
WISCONSIN. 
•• 25-28 
Badax. 
Sept. 10—12 
Racine. 
• 11-13 
Wapaca. .. 
•• 13-14 
St. Croix ... 
.Hudson. 
• 18—19 
Jackson .... 
18-19 
Columbia... 
18—20 
Winnebago 
•• 19—20 
Sheboygan.. 
•• 19—20 
Waushara.. 
• • 26-27 
Monroe. 
• • 26—27 
PROVINCIAL FAIRS 
CANADA WEST. 
Oxford, (Norwich). ... Otterville. 
Oct. 6 — 
Wellington. 
CANADA EAST. 
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Stanstead... 
Sept. 15— 
Broome. 
.Knowlton. 
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Sliefford.... 
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La Prairie . 
•• 20— 
Huntingdon 
•• 25— 
Campton .. 
• • 27— 
St. Johns... 
•• 27— 
Ottawa. 
•• 27— 
Levis. 
Oct. 2— 
Maskinouge 
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Mont Calm. 
• 3— 
Pontiac. 
• 4— 
Another 
“World’s Fair,” in 
1862—A 
Hint to Railroad Managers. 
Active preparations are already on foot for 
holding another World’s Fair, or International 
Exhibition, in London, in 1862, in the same place, 
and on a similar plan with that of 1851 We 
have before ns a subscription list to a guaranty 
fund which, up to the 1st of August amounted 
to £350,000, or about If million dollars! 
Prince Albert, the Royal Consort, heads the list 
with £10,000 ($50,000). The several London 
Railways subscribe £80,000 or $400,000 ! This 
is a hint to the Managers of American Railways. 
While some of them have always acted upon the 
true policy of fostering agricultural exhibitions, 
by liberal contributions, by carrying and return¬ 
ing stock and other articles free, and by the is¬ 
sue of excursion tickets, there are others who act 
upon the “ penny-wise pound-foolish ” plan of 
withholding all aid or encouragement. There 
are few cases where a railroad, hy contributing 
a few hundred dollars to aid in getting up a good 
agricultural show at any point along its line, 
would not receive back ten-fold. Some rail¬ 
road managers are always wide awake to all 
such enterprises and the result is seen in the 
healthy financial condition of the roads under 
their care. Others turn the cold shoulder to 
anything out of the regular routine, and the share, 
or more frequently the bond holders take the 
consequences. We commend to such the exam¬ 
ple of the London railroads. We have in mind 
one railroad where the superintendent and the 
conductors even, are the foremost actors in every 
exhibition, excursion, .etc , and the resuit is, 
the stock is so valuable that none of it can be 
bought in market. 
Dog o-Phobia.” 
A subscriber, the owner of a big dog we sup¬ 
pose, don’t like our articles against the canine 
species, and wants to know if we “ havn't got 
an attack of the dog-o-phobia.” To which it is 
answered : we have, and yon would have it too, 
had your experience been like our own. Here is 
an item or two from that experience : We yet 
carry abundant scars of an unmerciful “ chew¬ 
ing up ” received from a dog that attacked us 
when a boy, quietly walking along the public 
street, without so much as a knowledge of the 
animal’s existence until the attack. We make 
frequent sacrifice to these scars by furnishing 
free doses of strichnine or lead to dogs that wan¬ 
der upon our premises. Another item : one of the 
first attempts to introduce an improved breed of 
sheep into the Western country was made on our 
paternal homestead, and it was done at a large 
cost. The experiment was just beginning to be 
successful, when one Sabbath morning while the 
family were at breakfast, twenty seven of the sheep 
were murdered by two strolling dogs. We fol¬ 
lowed the dogs in a round-a-bout wild goose 
chase of 11 miles on a cold Winter day, and finally 
lost track of them in the drifting snow. We are 
looking for the owners yet. This single case is 
but a tithe of what we have lost by sheep-killing 
dogs. On one occasion we had to pay $10 for 
killing a dog found feeding at day-break, a mile 
from home, on 12 lambs slaughtered by some¬ 
body’s dog on the preceding night. The dog- 
loving referees decided that the dog we had killed, 
was proved to have a good character previously, 
and that it was nothing against his credit to be 
found eating carrion—any good dog would do 
that. It cost us the then price of six sheep to 
pay for that dog. Will anybody point us to a 
single neighborhood where some one has not suf¬ 
fered from dogs ? Will any one deny our previous 
statement that so profitable a branch of agricul¬ 
tural enterprise as sheep raising, would receive 
double the attention it now does, if dogs were 
out of the way 1 We have got the dog-o-phobia. 
See what Governor Randall of Wisconsin says 
on page 271. 
P.S.—A Sixteen-Hundrkd-doi.lar Dog. —Since 
penning the above we have heard from Pater¬ 
son, N. J., to this effect: A single dog bit a large 
number of cattle in the vicinity of the Two 
Bridges, near that city, of which twenty one 
have been attacked with hydrophobia, and 
twenty of these are already dead. Besides these, 
a number of others are supposed to have been 
bitten by the same dog. Seven belonging to Cor¬ 
nelius Van Ness, and three belonging to widow 
Stuart, are known to have been bitten. The 
owners of these ten-are looking for the breaking 
out of the dreaded disease. The positive loss 
already experienced from this one dog is esti¬ 
mated at not less than sixteen hundred dollars ! 
Will the Census man please send us an accurate 
value-list of all the dogs in Paterson 1 We have 
got the “ dog-o-phobia,” and the disease is get¬ 
ting worse. 
Pass Brother Harris Along. 
Satan rebuking sin !—“ Prof.” James J. Mapes 
“ L. D.,” talking of Joseph Harris, the worthy 
Editor of the Genesee Farmer, as “ beneath 
contempt”! and calling him “unscrupulous,” 
“malicious,” untruthful,” etc !-We have no 
disposition to intermeddle with Mr. Mapec’ per¬ 
sonal quarrels, but when he publishes Mr. Harris 
as a man without character among his editorial 
brethren, because he has not spoken in the high¬ 
est terms of Mr. Mapes’ pet “ super-phosphate,” 
—after he had taken some special pains to per¬ 
sonally investigate the process of manufacture— 
we join with our cotemporaries, the N. Y. Ob¬ 
server, Connecticut Homestead , Boston Cultivator, 
Country Gentleman, etc., in assigning Mr. Harris a 
high character among his “ editorial brethren ”— 
a character which it will take the self-styled 
“Prof,” “L.L.D. ” a long course of upright con¬ 
duct to attain. And such, we think, will be the 
verdict of 39 out of the 40 Agricultural papers in 
the country—or at least of so many of the 39 as 
are acquainted with the past editorial career of 
both Mr. Harris and Mr. Mapes. 
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Cutting Corn Stalks—Again. 
Some farmers still adhere to the old practice 
of topping their corn as soon as the ears are 
glazed. They suppose that the corn ripens bet¬ 
ter by exposure to the sun, and that the tops so 
cut, make better fodder. We advocate the cut¬ 
ting up the entire hill as soon as the kernels are 
well glazed. This method saves labor, yields as 
much and as good grain, gives the farmer more 
time to secure his crop, and the stalks make bet¬ 
ter fodder. 
It is much easier to cut up the stalks when 
green, than when ripe and dry. A workman can 
grasp a whole hill with one hand and arm, and 
cut it up with the other at a single blow. But in 
topping, each stalk must be cut separately, and 
then in the final cutting up of the hills when dry, 
the labor is much greater. 
At the' North, frosts visit us soon after the ker¬ 
nels are glazed, if not before ; and after the 
leaves have been once seared by frost, very little 
good can come to the ears from the ascending 
sap. Now, if the entire stalks are cut up just be¬ 
fore frosts come, and bound together in large 
loose bundles, most of the leaves will remain un 
hurt by frost, and will continue to send down 
their accumulated food to the grain. So that prob¬ 
ably the ears become fully as well developed as 
they would if the stalks had been allowed to 
stand a few days longer uncut. Besides, it 
should be remembered that all standing corn 
wastes by being broken down, and eaten by poul¬ 
try, birds, etc. 
Again : corn thus early cut up, can be housed 
