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Was an interesting and exciting one. Judge 
Huntington delivered an address on the ground, 
and he was followed by some quaint and appro¬ 
priate remarks from Mr. Barnum, the president 
of the Agricultural Society, who, after the pre¬ 
miums had been announced, also on the ground, 
invited a large number to partake of a sumptu¬ 
ous dinner at his beautiful residence, Iranistan, 
a short distance only from the plowing ground. 
The above plows, we see by the papers, Chas. 
A. Alsop, Esq., was so kind as to send us, were 
equally successful at the Middletown plowing 
match. They have also taken more premiums 
in Massachusetts and elsewhere this fall, than 
any other plows, although they had a stronger 
and more numerous competition than they have 
yet met with. 
In our May number for the current volume, 
we published an elaborate article with illustra¬ 
tions, on Messrs. Ruggles, Nourse, Mason & Co’s, 
new improved Deep Tiller Plows for sod, stubble, 
flat, and lap furrows, and to this we would refer 
our readers for imformation upon this subject. 
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CATTLE SHOW AND FAIR OF THE NEW YORK 
STATE AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY FOR 1853. 
If this be held in or near the city of New 
York, and be properly got up, we have no doubt 
it would net $ 30,000 to the society, (enough to 
found an agricultural school, without calling 
upon a niggardly legislature for funds,) and be 
the most splendid affair ever yet known in Amer¬ 
ica. This may sound like a large sum, and yet 
the result might come nearer to fifty than thirty 
thousand dollars. 
In case the show be located here, it should be 
kept open at least ten days or a fortnight, and 
commence the first of September, when southern 
and western people are here in such large num¬ 
bers. It should be advertised throughout North 
and South America, the West India Islands, and 
Europe, at least eight or nine months in advance, 
or a year would be still better. 
And now what we want for this exhibition is, 
a Park in the heart of the city of New York, 
like that of Hyde, Regents, or Victoria Park in 
London. It would be well also to have a Crystal 
Palace adorning it, where manufactures and arts 
of all kinds could be displayed, and the ex¬ 
hibition in this should be kept up at least six 
months. 
What a stimulus such a show would give to | 
improvements of all kinds in our country. Here j 
would be a great city with steamers, ships,! 
warehouses, and a few fine buildings, to look at, I 
such as London and Liverpool alone could show; 1 
here would be a beautiful model park, (that is 
if the people of the city, in the meanwhile, have 
taste and liberalty enough to get one up,) for 
the study of landscape, gardeners; improved 
domestic stock of various kinds, with grain-, 
vegetables and fruits for the farmer—flowers and 
shrubs for the ladies—manufactures of infinite 
variety for the artisan—and works of art for 
people of taste and fortune. But time and space 
do not permit us to dwell longer on this subject-, 
hereafter we intend to touch upon it more at 
length. 
Let the city of New York prepare the park 
ground, and build the crystal palace, and the 
corporation may clear half a million of dollars 
out of it, and the display of arts and manu¬ 
factures; while the State Agricultural Society 
may net fifty thousand dollars by its cattle show. 
And all this would serve as a stimulus to every 
city in the Union, great and small, to go and do 
as near like it as possible. 
What a multitude of strangers our country 
would draw to it by such a liberal and enlight¬ 
ened course of proceeding! What a prodigious 
increase it would give to its wealth! How greatly 
it would advance all that is refined, elegant and 
useful. 
DOGS FOR DRAUGHT. 
In the snowy regions of the north, dogs are 
much used for travelling and moving light 
loads over the snow. In Quebec and Montreal 
I have seen them harnessed to a little wagon 
or sled, going about the streets gathering soap 
and ashes, or for other purposes. The St. 
Paul Democrat, which is itself located pretty 
high up in Minesota, gave an interesting ac¬ 
count last winter of the arrival of a dog train at 
that place from the Selkirk settlement, some 
500 miles still farther north. This settlement 
is on the*line between our territory and that 
of the British possessions. It contains about 
7,000 inhabitants—French, English, Indian and 
mixed. Notwithstanding they are so far north, 
they raise large crops of barley, oats, spring 
wheat, potatoes, cabbages, turnips, beets, mel¬ 
ons, onions, and all kinds of garden vegetables 
that grow in temperate latitudes. The corn 
crop is not relied upon—it is a precarious crop, 
though raised in every garden for table use. 
They plant early in May. They usually have 
frosts till the first of June, and again in Sep¬ 
tember. The season is long enough to fully 
mature the crops. 
One of the New York fire bells weighs 21,612 
pounds. It was cast by Hooper & Co., Boston 
