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Suffolks from the stock of the late Mr. Stickney, 
possessed rare excellence. 
The Poultry was limited to half a dozen coops, 
and some of these would have answered for the 
original in the present volume of the Agricul¬ 
turist, page 56, fig. 11. 
Of Fruits , Flowers , Vegetables , Grain , the Dairy , 
and Other Farm Products , there was scarcely any¬ 
thing but a few strings of onions and a mess or 
two of potatoes. 
Almost the only farm implements shown— 
and there were no others except Fairbanks 
scales—were from the celebrated manufactory 
of Messrs. Ruggles, Nourse, Mason & Co., and a 
few plows from Messrs. Prouty & Mears. No 
manufactures, except a little leather and iron, 
a piece or two of sheeting, and perhaps a little 
besides, from a state that embraces its full share 
of intelligence, a variety of mineral products 
and manufactures, bespeaks a* want of under¬ 
standing or interest in their 'exhibition, which 
we think another year will remedy. Our ob¬ 
servations above must be understood as limited 
to the first day’s exhibition. There were sub¬ 
sequent arrivals for exhibition which maj^ have 
materially enhanced its merits. 
The Address was delivered by Mr. Holbrook, 
of Brattleboro, on the fair grounds, at 2 P. M., to 
a large and interested audience, and was said 
to have been excellent, but we did not have the 
pleasure of listening to it. 
AMERICAN PLOWS IN EUROPE, 
Mr. Johnson, secretary of the New-York State 
Agricultural Society, thus writes to the Cultiva¬ 
tor, from London :—“ While we were trying the 
American plows, an English gentleman, living 
adjoining the land we were plowing, who had 
seen me as soon as I arrived on the ground, 
asked the privilege of trying our plows with 
one horse. He took one to another part of the 
field, and with one of his big horses, plowed 
with perfect ease, six inches deep and nine 
inches wide, without any extra effort of his 
horse. He gathered around him, as you may 
well imagine, a large crowd, and the wonder 
expressed was very amusing. The result of 
this was, that the gentlemen ordered this plow 
on the spot, and before I left, gave the names of 
four others in the neighborhood, who were 
present, for the plows to be ordered for them. 
This gentleman said, after he had tried the plow, 
I do not mind what the judges may say about 
the plow, it is the one for me.” ’ 
Further on, he says: “ I became acquainted 
at our trial of plows with Count de Gourcv, a dis¬ 
tinguished French gentleman, who is one of the 
most distinguished French agriculturists that I 
ever met with. He spoke in very high terms of 
our plows. He had seen three of them in op¬ 
eration in France, which had been sent over by 
some American gentleman who had purchased 
Rambouillet sheep; but his name he did not re¬ 
collect. They were, he said, so light, so simple 
in their construction, so easily operated by the 
peasantry of France, and so cheap, that he pre¬ 
ferred them altogether, to any other plows. He 
expressed himself highly gratified with the per¬ 
formances of our plows at the trial—said they 
had acomplished all that was desired.” 
The gentleman alluded to above, and of 
whose name Mr. Johnson was ignorant, is John 
A. Taintor, Esq., of Hartford, Connecticut; and 
the plows were of our manufacture. Our agri¬ 
cultural implements have not only been sent to 
France, but to nearly every other country in 
Europe, and given great satisfaction. They are 
especially liked for their simplicity, strength, 
and cheapness; and the superior ease and fa¬ 
cility of accomplishing their work. As a gen¬ 
eral rule, it does not require more than half the 
power to propel an American agricultural im¬ 
plement as a European. 
SCALDING- HOG-S. 
I saw an article some time since, in the Agri¬ 
culturist, on scalding hogs with stones; or rather, 
heating the water with stones instead of in fur¬ 
naces or pots; and I thought I would send you 
a description of my proceeding in such work. 
I have a scalder, or large wooden tub, with a 
boiler in it, by which we heat the water by 
building a fire within the boiler, which saves 
the trouble of bailing off the water after the 
tub is filled, or of handling stones either, and a 
much more convenient way it is. 
I will give you a description of it as well as 
I can without an engraving, which I am unable to 
give. It is five feet three inches long, two feet 
wide at top, and twenty inches to the boiler 
from the top of the tub, the boiler being a long 
cylinder of copper or sheet iron eleven inches 
in diameter, reaching from the outside of one 
end of the tub to nearly the inside of the other 
end, where it has a shoulder; and the rest is 
the size of a common stove pipe, reaching 
through the end of the tub, to put a pipe on for 
the draft and smoke to pass through. The 
larger end should be even with the outside of 
the tub, and have a door, with a flue hole in it, 
attached to the tub. Some are made wider at 
the top than at the bottom. Mine is so. being 
