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MOORE’S RURAL NEW-YORKER: AN AGRICULTURAL AND FAMILY NEWSPAPER. 
MAY 17. 
has already been of essential benefit to the at¬ 
tentive reader, and therefore I propose to con¬ 
tribute a few suggestions upon this inteiesting 
question. That Indian Corn is decidedly the 
most important crop for the farmer, even in the 
justly celebrated wheat section of Western New 
York, I think there can be no doubt,— hence 
the interest with which the subject is beginning 
fto be regarded. 
For the last four years, I have raised from 
thirty to fifty acres, and on an average fifty 
bushels of sound, merchantable corn to the acre. 
My soil is a mixture of gravelly and sandy loam. 
As all are aware who have attentively cultivated 
this valuable cereal, corn is a voracious feeder, 
and I have never yet seen land too rich for 
raising and maturing a successful crop. My 
plan has been to apply a liberal coat of green 
barnyard manure to a clover sod, turn under 
eight or ten inches, (the deeper the better,) pul¬ 
verize to a fine tilth with the drag, mark both 
ways three feet eight inches with a common 
marker, and plant by hand, putting from four to 
kernels in a hill. Last year as the coin fiist 
made its appearance, I experimented a little 
with a top dressing in the following manner, 
and with the following resultOn a small 
portion of my field I prepared a compost of one 
part salt, two parts gypsum, and three parts 
wood ashes, and applied a tablespoonful to a 
hill. On another portion of the same field, and 
adjoining the first, I applied the same quantity 
• of gypsum, and to another a like quantity of 
wood ashes. On the salted portion in a few 
days, I discovered that the leaves were dying, 
and it soon looked as though it had been nipped 
by a severe frost. I at once set my men to re¬ 
moving the compost from the hill and thus 
saved most of it; but where the salt came in 
contact with the tender blade it entirely de¬ 
stroyed it. This lesson taught me hereafter to 
use salt for preserving meats and seasoning 
food, and to rely upon other fertilizers for rais¬ 
ing corn or any other product. It also taught 
me what probably most of your readers knew 
before, that no inconsiderable amount of hum¬ 
bug is mingled with the valuable instruction 
even in the Rural New-Yorker ; for it was in 
it that salt was highly recommended without 
qualification as a fertilizer for corn. The same 
recommendation, in a modified form, has been 
renewed this spring, and if any of my brother 
farmers are not satisfied with my experience, 
let them try for themselves, and my word for it 
they never will renew the experiment.* On the 
portions of the field to which gypsum and ashes 
were applied, the corn had a fresher and darker 
appearance throughout the season, and at har- 
vest time it was better eared, and gave a better 
yield, than any other part of the field. The 
experiment of last year did not satisfy me to 
which to give the preference, plaster or ashes ; 
but I am inclined to think to the latter. 
My variety is the improved Dutton, varying 
from ten to eighteen rows on the ear. I call it 
the improved Dutton, because it is largei and 
handsomer than the same variety was five years 
ago when I began to raise it. My piactice in 
saving seed is to select, in husking, the largest 
and most perfect ears, and to trace up and hang 
in a dry place through the winter. In this way 
I have increased the number of rows on the car 
and the length of the ear,—and notwithstanding 
we get a larger cob, I believe the yield per 
acre, on strong, well manured land, will be 
greater from this variety than from any other 
known in this section. If others think differ¬ 
ently, let them try. I am content with this. 
In preparing the seed for planting, I put on 
about a quart of tar to a bushel, pour on water 
as hot as the hand will bear without scalding, 
and stir till every kernel is coated, and then 
sift on ashes or plaster to prevent the kernels 
from sticking together. On more than one 
hundred and fifty acres that I have planted in 
the last five years, I have never had a hill de¬ 
stroyed by the crows, and have not been troubled 
to any extent by the cut or wire worm. I use 
no lines nor old coats or other disguises to scare 
the crows, but leave them to eat all they like, 
and conclude that tarred corn is not palatable to 
them. At the first hoeing or weeding, I leave 
but four stalks in a hill, and at the second hoe¬ 
ing, I pull off all “suckers” or shoots, which 
throws all the strength of the roots into the 
main stalk, the beneficial effect of which is 
manifest in the increased number and size of 
the ears at harvest time. 
In regard to the time of planting, we must be 
governed mainly by the condition of the land 
and weather ; and I think nothing is gained by 
planting before the ground is warm enough to 
germinate the seed quickly. By waiting until 
then, you need have no fears of a sickly, feeble 
plant. From the twentieth of May till the first 
of June has been the proper time for planting 
the Dutton corn in Genesee county for the last 
five years,—and when planted in a good soil, 
well prepared and well cultivated, it has ripen¬ 
ed as early as the eight-rowed corn in this 
vicinity, even of an earlier planting. 
As my object was merely to submit a few 
practical suggestions, I will not extend this 
communication by theorizing, but may give you 
the result of this years’ experience before anoth¬ 
er planting season. G. s. 
Alexander, N. Y., May, 1856. 
* Ocr esteemed correspondent probably relies somewhat 
upon memory for the accuracy of his assertions as to what 
the Rural has recommended. The only editorial allusion 
to salt for corn which we can now remember, (though 
others may have been made,) is in the following strongly 
qualified terms“ A top-dressing of ashes and plaster, or 
of ashes alone, is useful; it involves but little labor, and 
assists the young corn to get a better start, so that it can 
forage for itself through a greater breadth and depth of 
soil. An experiment in mixing a small quantity of salt, 
with ashes so applied, resulted in quite a noticeable in¬ 
crease in the product. Half a teaspoonful of salt is enough 
for a hill, and should not touch the young corn, or it will 
kill the leaves .” 
LETTER FROM MR. GARBUTT. 
The Season—Appearance of the Wheat Crop—Deficiency 
and proballe Cause—Thick and Thin Seeding—Experi¬ 
ments, tfC. 
Editor Rural :—The few fine warm days 
that we had last week, made vegetation bound 
from its winter’s rest with rapid strides. The 
wheat fields in this section have improved in 
appearance beyond our most sanguine expecta¬ 
tions, yet many of them are too thin, and spots 
or patches in almost every field are too much so 
for the prospect of a bountiful crop. 
Farmers are not agreed as to what is the 
cause of this deficiency; many attribute it to 
defective seed, (or too thin sowing ,) not produ¬ 
cing sufficient plants to cover the ground. Now, 
sir, if you will examine those thin fields and 
patches carefully, you will discover that the 
plants which are there, let them be few or many> 
are weak, feeble, and of a sickly appearance, 
which is positive evidence that the cause is not 
the want of seed, but some defect in the soil or 
its preparation, or the effect of the winter, or 
the ravages of some devouring insect preying 
on its vitals. 
When the soil and other circumstances are 
favorable for a vigorous growth, the thinner the 
seed the more healthy and vigorous will be the 
plants, for it is the natural effect with all the 
vegetable kingdom, that the more room they 
have to grow, the greater will be their facilities 
to collect food, which will give them a rapid 
and healthy growth, so that when the plants are 
weak and sickly, the presumption ought to be 
that there was too much seed sown, and not too 
little, for the ground can be overstocked with 
plants, as well as a pasture can be with animals. 
Poverty and weakness is, in both cases, the in¬ 
evitable consequence. 
My opinion is that there is much more injury 
done by sowing too much than too little seed. If 
the ground is in proper condition to produce a 
bountiful crop, and the season favorable for its 
growth, a half bushel of good seed wheat, sown 
evenly over an acre of ground and covered so 
that it all grows, is better than more ; but much 
of our seed is defective, and many of the plants 
are destroyed by insects, and much of it is in¬ 
jured in winter or spring, so that we must sow 
more to make up for those deficiencies. 
In a good crop of wheat each bush or plant 
generally produces four spears, (or stalks,) and 
often six, —and it is a poor head of wheat that 
has not twenty kernels in it, so that it will give 
eighty kernels from each plant, or from one 
seed’s growth, so that a half bushel sown would 
give a yield of forty bushels per acre. But I 
want to say to my fellow cultivators, test these 
matters by experience until you are satisfied as 
to the general result. Every farmer ought to be 
an experimenter, and every farm an experimental 
one, for all agricultural facts must be settled by 
experience. W. Garbutt. 
Wheatland, N. Y., May 5,1856. 
ABOUT RAISING CALVES. 
Eds. Rural :—The following, written to a 
friend in answer to inquiries on the subject of 
rearing calves, may prove of value to some of 
your numerous readers : 
When we are scarce of milk we raise the 
calves on oat meal. If the calves are young, 
sift out the hulls, and make a gruel of the oat 
or buckwheat meal, (never feed buckwheat hulls.) 
Put a little dry oats chop, unsifted, in a trough 
for the calves, to learn them to eat; if they 
don’t eat it, put it in their mouths a few times, 
and they will soon learn without any trouble. 
After you get them to eat the dry chop well, if 
you don’t want the trouble of scalding the chop, 
you can feed it dry, and let them have plenty 
of water to drink and hay and corn fodder to 
eat. In cold winter weather you will find the 
dry feeding preferable. At first a pint of meal 
at a feed, twice a day; as they get older, in¬ 
crease the feed to a quart, and more if you want 
them to be “something extra.” We have raised 
ten calves with the milk of one cow —frequently 
we raise them without a drop of milk. Dry 
feed and water keeps the calf pens less offensive, 
and more like cow stables. 
Another, and a very good way too, is to give 
the calves plenty of milk, both sweet and sour, 
all seasons, and a little wheat bran, or oats chop, 
all summer. Where cows and milk are no ob¬ 
ject, let two calves run with one cow two 
months; then put two more with her, and so on 
during the season. This is a very good way to 
raise calves, but I think expensive. 
If you feed several calves together in one 
trough, the greedy ones will get more than 
their share, and this will sometimes make them 
scour, which continues for days, and acts upon 
them as if it were dysentery — my remedy for 
which is to take half a bushel of clover heads 
and leaves, make hay tea a few times, put a 
little milk with it, and feed it to the calves. 
They are fond of it, and generally three or four 
feeds will cure them. I have had them so weak 
and near gone that they could not stand alone, 
and refused to eat. In such extreme cases feed 
but little at a time and often. They are often 
like sick persons ; the disease must be broken 
by degrees, and brought up gradually. When 
they won’t drink, pour it down them. Timo¬ 
thy hay is equally nourishing, but is not so cos¬ 
tive, and will not cure the diarrhoea. If you 
have not clover hay, try eggs and wheat flour, 
night and morning. This will often cure them. 
B. Morris Ellis. 
Muncy, Lycoming Co., Pa., May, 1856. 
More About Oats. —From four bushels of the 
far-famed Poland (white) Oats, I had a yield of 
about 40 bushels. From three bushels of the 
Free Soil, or Horseneck, or One-Sided Oats, as 
they are variously called, I had ninety-three 
and a half bush els, by measure.— Nelson Payne, 
Sennett, 2856. 
CONDENSED CORRESPONDENCE. 
THE SWEET POTATO. 
A correspondent inquires whether the Sweet 
Potato can be profitably grown in this region, 
and as to the best mode of culture. We have 
responded to similar inquiries in former vol¬ 
umes, and correspondents have given their ex¬ 
perience. Mr. I. W. Briggs, of West Macedon, 
N. Y., who has grown the Sweet Potato for 
several years, communicates the following : 
“ The Sweet Potato can be successfully culti¬ 
vated in Western New York, but it is necessary 
to plant in hot beds about the middle of April, 
and transplant the sprouts into open ground 
about the 1st to 10th June. Soil best adapted 
is a light sand or sandy loam, in warm locali¬ 
ties. One plant to a hill, 4 feet apart, or in 
ridges slightly elevated, and 2 feet apart on the 
ridge, set with care, the same as cabbage or to¬ 
matoes. The vines sometimes run 10 or 15 feet; 
these it is better to lift occasionally to prevent 
their taking root, which they are prone to do at 
every joint where small tubers are formed, to 
the detriment of the tubers in the hill. Dig as 
soon as the first frost kills the vines. For win¬ 
ter use, or for seed, pack in boxes of dry sand 
so that one will not touch another, and keep 
where frost or moisture cannot come, but not 
warm, else they will grow in the winter.” 
WIRE FENCES, 
Mr. Editor :—In the Rural New-Yorker of 
April 5th, Mr. H. asks what has become of the 
wire fences. Please inform him that there are 
very many on the prairies of Illinois, Wisconsin, 
and Iowa; also in the State of Maryland.— 
Capt. Burkholder, Mr. Gifford, and many 
others in Ontario county, N. Y., have them, and 
very good ones, too. 
The best wire fences I ever saw were in 
Michigan, on the farm of W. J. Davison. He 
has a number of miles of wire fence. I was at 
his residence last summer, and saw the erection 
of some. If a tree is convenient, he makes fast 
to that; if not, he sets a large post five feet in 
the ground, well secured. The intermediate 
posts are eight feet apart. The wires from four 
to ten inches apart, and fastened to the posts 
with malleable cast iron staples, which are 
manufactured at Elizabeth Point, N. J. 
His mode of straining the wire is very simple, 
by which any boy can make it as tight as de¬ 
sired. His fences are all made of annealed No. 
9 wire, made from No. 1 Scotch gray iron.— 
Eight strands of this wire, strained with 1,000 
pounds pressure on each strand, makes a fence 
that Mr. H. would be convinced was better than 
“just no fence at all.” I could say much in fa¬ 
vor of wire fences.— B. Johnson, Chicago, 1856. 
POTATOES. — AN EXPERIMENT. 
Eds. Rural : —Having a desire to test the 
difference between heavy and light seeding 
with the potato crop, I planted ten rows eight 
rods in length, and forty hills to the row. The 
first two were planted three pieces in the hill, 
next four pieces, next five, next six, and last two 
with three “ but-ends”—each piece having two 
eyes only. Variety planted called the Red 
Jackson or Trout potato. Color, pale scarlet, 
large size, oblong, eyes deep set. Flesh rather 
lighter than the old Flesh Color of New York. 
All had the same treatment. On harvesting, the 
two rows with three pieces, produced six bush¬ 
els of large, fine potatoes,— those with four 
pieces, a little more in measure, but the pro¬ 
duct was not as fair nor as large,—the rows 
with five and six pieces produced six and one- 
half bushels each, but still smaller,—the “but- 
ends” gave about seven bushels of fine growth. 
Other experiments of a similar character have 
satisfied me that three pieces cut as described 
are sufficient to the hill, and that the best crop, 
as regards size, appearance and quantity, can 
be obtained from that number.—A. A. Hubbard, 
Springvale, Fond du Lac Co., Wis. 
Inutility of Corn Cobs for Provender.— 
Experience does not always prove the reliabili¬ 
ty of chemical analysis, but Prof. Jackson’s 
chemical analysis of corn cobs corroborates my 
experience that they are worthless as food for 
animals, and, unless ground finer than is custo¬ 
mary, positively injurious, because of the coarse, 
flinty, and indigestible nature of the hulls.— 
Corn cobs are excellent fuel, and at the present 
prices of wood and coal, it is economy to burn 
them, but at whatever price corn sells, it is bad 
economy to feed them to animals.—E. M., Ca¬ 
millas, May, 1856. 
Sickness Among Hogs. — Remedy. —About two 
weeks since one of my hogs was much troubled 
with coughing, shortness of breath, and wheez¬ 
ing. The hog was in this condition some four 
or five days. I then gave it a large tablespoon¬ 
ful of sulphur in sour milk, once a day, for 
three days in succession, and it proved a cure. 
My swine were fed on dry corn and water all 
winter. Farmers should not neglect to give 
their hogs sulphur at least once a month.— 
Geo. A. Shoemaker, Hopewell, H. Y. 
Gapes in Chickens. —In a late Rural I saw 
an inquiry for a remedy for gapes in chickens. 
Having some hens troubled with that disease, I 
cut up one or two onions fine, and gave it to 
them. In less than twelve hours they were 
well as ever.— Henry P. Benton, Lyons, H. Y. 
“A Subscriber’s Wife” may find a speedy 
and successful cure for “ Gapes in Chickens,” 
in a mixture of Indian meal with soap-suds.— 
Banta. 
An Inquiry. —Last fall I had a cistern made 
in my barn-yard for the purpose of saving the 
various liquids that were formerly -wasted.— 
Will some of your correspondents inform me, 
through the Rural, the best way of getting it 
carried out and applied to the land.—L. Smith, 
Southport, N. Y. 
Whipple-tree for Three Horses.—A corres¬ 
pondent wishes to know how he shall make an 
evener for three horses, so that each horse shall 
perform one-third of the work. He thinks that 
by giving information through the Rural, oth¬ 
ers may be benefited, as he observes many 
plowing with three horses who have not a proper 
arrangement for equalizing the draft. 
In answer to the request, we give two illus¬ 
trations of whipple-trees for working three 
horses abreast, neither of which requires par¬ 
ticular explanation. The arrangement usually 
adopted is represented above, by which tw r o 
horses are attached to the shorter end, and the 
third to the lorger end of the common bar. The 
draft of each horse is rendered exactly equal. 
The annexed diagram represents an ingenious, 
but more complicated and expensive arrange¬ 
ment for the accomplishment of the same object. 
If any of our readers can furnish a better 
arrangement for the purpose, we shall be glad 
to give it in the Rural. 
Col. Morris’ Stock at Auction. —It will be 
seen by reference to his announcement in our 
advertising department, that Col. L. G. Morris 
purposes, for reasons therein stated, to dispose 
of his entire stock of Improved Domestic Ani¬ 
mals, at auction, on the 24th and 25tli of June 
ensuing. This will afford breeders and others 
a rare opportunity of obtaining superior stock, 
as the sale is to be positive and without reserve. 
As Col. M. has deservedly acquired a high na¬ 
tional reputation as an importer and breeder, we 
doubt not the sale will be numerously attended. 
— Col. M.’s retirement from a branch of hus¬ 
bandry, the pursuit of which has been alike 
honorable to himself and beneficial to the coun¬ 
try, is a noteworthy event, and wall be widely 
regretted. Whether the business has proved 
profitable or otherwise—we trust the former is 
the fact—he will receive some compensation in 
the consciousness of having contributed largely 
to the furtherance of the cause of improvement. 
Horse Exhibition. —The Wayne Co. Agricul¬ 
tural Society is apparently “bound ” to have a 
“numerous time,” and “fast” one also, at its 
Horse Exhibition, on the 5th and 6th proximo. 
We give the announcement—including Premi¬ 
um List, Regulations, Ac.—a conspicuous place 
on this page, so that “ all who run may read,” 
(as also can moderate people,) and do not be¬ 
speak a vote of thanks for either that courtesy 
or this “ first rate notice.” In truth the Rural, 
having some thousands of subscribers (and 
more readers—including a few borrowers,) in 
Wayne, trusts that the aforesaid Exhibition 
will prove every way worthy of, and creditable 
to, the County and the enterprising managers 
of the Society. 
Concentrated Labor. — The great evil of 
American agriculture consists in a desire to 
spread —in other words—farmers act as though 
they would be known by the number of acres 
in possession, rather than by the care and labor 
given. It is of importance that no more land 
should be owned than can be well cultivated ; 
that labor should be concentrated where it will 
most readily yield ample returns for the time, 
toil and capital invested, yet many farmers will 
skin from one hundred acres what ten ought to, 
and will produce, if proper attention be given 
to it. Deal w r ith men as we may, w r e must be 
honest with Nature. To give to the soil in ma¬ 
nures what you take from it in crops, is the 
basis of true farming. 
Canadian Ag’l Statistics. — According to 
official report, Canada West contains 31,745,535 
acres. By the census of 1852 it numbered 
952,004 inhabitants. The province produces an 
annual amount as follow's : 
Barley.... 
12,692,852 
bush.Potatoes_ 
4,987,175busli. 
62,575 
“ Other roots 
229,121 “ 
11,193,844 
“ Butter. 
15,978,315 lbs. 
631,384 
“ Cheese. 
2,226,776 “ 
1,606,513 
“ Hay. 
681,682 tons. 
2,891,503 
“ No. Horses.. 
203,300 
479,651 
“ Neat Cattle.. 
745,894 
3,641,942 
“ Sheep. 
968,022 
Swine. 
484,241 
Implements and Seeds. —As there is now a 
reasonable prospect of the recurrence of both 
seed-time and harvest, we invite special atten¬ 
tion to the various announcements of planting, 
sowing and harvesting implements and machin¬ 
ery in our advertising department. Also to the 
budgets of our Seedsmen therein set forth—the 
tenor of the advertisements indicating that 
their authors (as we presume do the seeds,) 
possess the germ of vitality. 
The Wool Grower and Stock Register, for 
May, is an interesting and well filled number. 
Its contents comprise a large number of valuable 
papers and items—including seventeen articles 
in the Wool Growers’ Department, and over fifty 
in-the Stock and other departments. Published 
monthly—32 large octavo pages—at $1 a year, 
or 50 cents a volume. We furnish it to Rural 
subscribers at half the regular subscription 
price—50 cents a year, or 25 cents a volume. 
[ADVERTISEMENT.] 
EXHIBITION OF HORSES. 
The Wayne Co. Agricultural Society will hold 
an Exhibition of Horses, on the 5th and 6th 
days of June, 1856. $600 in Premiums of¬ 
fered. Competition open to the State. 
From the encouragement already given, it is confidently ex¬ 
pected that this Exhibition in point of numbers and excellence, 
will Excel all Previous Exhibitions of this character, ever 
held in the State. The Society’s Grounds are spacious and 
pleasant, and contain A Well Graded Track for the Exhibi¬ 
tion of Trotting Horses ! 
LIST OF PREMIUMS. 
CLASS I —HORSES FOR ROAD. 
No. 1—Stallions—Road.—Best Stallion 4 years old and over, 
$20 & Dip; 2d, 15; 3d, 10. Three years old, S10; 2d, 5. Two 
years old, $8; 2d, 4. One year old, $5; 2d, 3. 
No. 2—Fillies—Best Filly, 3 years old, $8; 2d, 5. Two years 
old, 6; 2d, 4. One year old, 5; 2d, 3. 
No. 3—2 and 3 years old Geldings—Best Gelding, 3 years old, 
$8; 2d, 5. Two years old, 6; 2d, 4. 
No. 4—Single Geldings and Mares—4 years old and upwards, 
Best single Gelding, $10 A Dip; 2d, 8; 3d, 5. Best single Mare, 
$8 A Dip; 2d, 6; 3d, 4. 
No. 5—Matched Geldings and Mares—Best pair matched 
Geldings, $15 A Dip; 2d, 10; 3d, 6. Best pair matched Mares, 
$12 A Dip; 2d, 8; 3d, 5. 
No. 6—Matched Ponies—Best pair, $5; 2d, 3. 
CLASS II —DRAFT HORSES. 
No 7—Stallions—Best Stallion 4 years old and over, $15 A 
Dip; 2d, 10; 3d, 6. Three years old, 8; 2d, 5. Two years old, 6; 
2d, 4. One year old, 4; 2d, 3. 
No 8—Fillies—Best Filly 3 years old, $6; 2d, 4. Two years 
old, 5; 2d, 3. One year old, 4; 2d, 2. 
No. 9—2 and 3 years old Geldings—Best Gelding 3 years old 
$G; 2d, 4. Two years old, 5 ; 2d, 3 
No. 10—Matched Geldings and Mares—Best pair matched 
Geldings, $10 A Dip; 2d, 8; 3d, 5. Best pair matched Mares, 
$8 A Dip; 2d, 6; 3d, 4. 
CLASS III—TROTTING. 
No. 11—Trotting in harness. Open to all horses 4 years old 
and under, that have never trotted for money.—Thursday Af¬ 
ternoon, June 5.—Best, $10; 2d, 5. 
No. 12—Trotting in harness. Open to all horses over 4 years 
old, that have never trotted for money.—Thursday Afternoon, 
June 5.—Best $15; 2d, 10. 
No. 13—Pacing in harness. Open to all horses.—Thursday 
Afternoon, June 5.—Best $10; 2d, 5. 
No 14—Trotting in harness. Open to all horses.—Friday Af¬ 
ternoon, June 6.—Best $25; 2d, 15. 
No. 15—Trotting in harness. Open to all Stallions that can 
trot a mile in 3 minutes.—Friday Afternoon, June 6.—Best $30 
and Diploma ; 2d, 20. 
No. 16—Trotting in harness. Open to all Matched Iloises.— 
Friday Afternoon, June 6 —Best pair, $15 A Dip; 2d, 10. 
JUDGES. 
No. 1—Col. Lewis G. Morris, Mt. Fordham, Westchester Co.; 
Wm. P. Randall, Cortland Co.; Gen. Ela Merriam, Lewis Co. 
No. 2—Stephen Dexter, Saratoga; Wm. London, Albany; Col. 
D. Avery, Ithaca. 
No. 3—Wm. Hildreth, Ontario Co; N. Thompson, Penn Yan ; 
Amos Gillett, Syracuse. 
No. 4—Gen. S. M. Burroughs, Medina; Wm. S. Judd, Penn 
Yan; Isaac Shinier, Geneva. 
No. 5—James Davis, Syracuse ; W. O. Moore, Rochester ; 
George Wagener, Penn Yan. 
No. 6—Chas. Morrell, Tompkins Co.; B. B. Kirtlaud, Albany. 
No. 7—Hon. James S. Wadsworth, Geneseo ; J. B. Burnett, 
Syracuse ; Wm. Johnson, Geneva. 
No. 8—A. J. Wyncoop, Elmyra; John S. Clark, Aubnrn ; 
Paris Barber, Homer. 
No. 9—Wm. T. Hotchkiss, Lewiston ; Hugh T. Brooks, Wy¬ 
oming Co ; Col. Warren Halsey, Trumansburgh. 
No. 10—Samuel Ilecox, Buffalo; Chas. Jones, Moscow; James 
Lyon, Bath. 
REGULATIONS, Ac. • 
All horses competing for premiums, should be entered and on 
the grounds before 1 o’clock, P. M. of Thursday the first day. 
Horses must be entered in the name of the bona fide owner.— 
Premiums will not be awarded to horses of inferior merit, al¬ 
though there be no competition. No horse will be allowed a 
premium unless he is sound. No horse can compete except for 
a single premium. Competition in all cases is open to the 
State. The Judges will be called and enter upon the discharge 
of their duties at 91£ o’clock, A. M., on Friday the second day. 
All horses entering the grounds for competition or otherwise, 
must bo subject to the direction of the officers of the Society. 
The Society will take every possible precation for the safety 
and comfort of horses on exhibition, but will not be responsi¬ 
ble for damage or expense. Premiums not claimed within 
thirty days after the award, will be considered as donations to 
the Society. An efficient Police will be in attendance, and 
good order and decorum will be maintained. The General 
Superintendent will give all necessary directions and informa¬ 
tion to Exhibitors and Judges. 
Entrance Fees.—T he Entrance Fees for Horses (except 
trotting) will be : For competition for premiums of $10 or less, 
$1; over $10, $2; trotting horses competing for premiums of 
$10 or less, each horse, $1; for premiums of over $10 each 
horse, $2. All persons, whether Life or Annual Members of 
the Society, or otherwise, will be subject to the above fees. 
Admission Fees.—L ife Members with their family and car¬ 
riage, free. All other persons for each admission, 12>£c; Car¬ 
riages with single horses, 25c; two do 37!£c. Persons occupy¬ 
ing carriages each, 12>£c. Admittance to terrace stand 12)j. 
A Grand Agricultural Soiree—W ill be held in Floral 
Hall, on the evening of Friday, June 6th. Tickets $1. Scott’s 
Band, from Rochester, will be present during the Exhibition. 
Officers of the Society for ’56 —President —DE WITT C. 
VAN SLYCK, Lyons. Secretary— S. Lewis, Lyons. Treasurer 
—Wm. H. Sisson, Lyons. -General Superintendent of Horse Ex¬ 
hibition —J. C. Woodruff, Syracuse. Directors— E. N. Thomas, 
Rose ; S. Tinklepaugh, Sodus ; E. B. Kellogg, Galen ; Al¬ 
fred Hale, Lyons ; A. G. Percy, Newark ; Stephen Hyde, 
Palmyra. 
Gulliver still Abroad. —Ex-Mayor Curtis 
of Chicago has retired on a farm of 3,000 acres, 
which cost him about three years ago, $23,000. 
This farm is now worth $90,000, and is rising 
in value. These are the farms of the great 
West, nearly two and a half miles square, and 
with fields that yield 90,000 bushels of wheat 
and 180,000 bushels of corn ; and orchards of 
5,000 peach trees, 1,200 apple !— Selected. 
That renowned personage, Gulliver, has left 
the region of the Lilliputians and settled amid 
the fertile prairies of the West. For instance, 
taking twenty bushels of wheat as an average 
product per acre, 4,500 acres would be required 
to raise the amount above stated. Again, corn 
at 70 bushels to the acre, would require 2,571 3-7 
acres to give the 180,000 bushels, as represented. 
Here we have a total of 7,071 3-7 acres. We 
would ask, merely for information, what part of 
the 3,000 acres is devoted to the cultivation of 
the 6,200 fruit trees ? 
Roman Farmers. —In Rome, the most remark¬ 
able Republic of ancient times, a large propor¬ 
tion of the people were engaged in agricultural 
pursuits. History informs us that during the 
time of the greatest prosperity of the Roman 
Republic, persons of noble blood tilled their 
little farms of seven acres with their own hands, 
and the highest ambition of the women of that 
Republic was to make good housewives. The 
daughters of individuals of all grades and ranks 
were inspired with a high degree of emulation 
as to which could best perform her duty in the 
domestic affairs of the household. Happy would 
it be for our country if the young ladies of the 
American Republic would follow their example. 
Agriculture at the South.— The Executive 
Committee of the South Carolina State Ag. So¬ 
ciety resolved to establish an Ag’l Journal 
which should be the organ of their Society.— 
Col. A. G. Summer has been appointed editor 
and the publication given to the lowest bidder, 
R. W. Gibbe, Esq., of Columbia. The gentle¬ 
man selected as conductor is favorably' known 
as the editor of the Southern Agriculturist, 
which was, under his management, one of the 
most reliable of its class in the country. A well 
sustained paper will do more to develop the 
Ag. interests of South Carolina than the same 
amount of money expended in any other way. 
Sheep Show. —Wool Growers, and others in¬ 
terested, are reminded that the next Annual 
Exhibition of the Wool Growers’ Association of 
Western New York, is to be held at Penn Yan, 
on the 27th, 28th and 29th days of May instant. 
The Premium List, tfcc.,was given in the Rural 
of March 1st. 
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