AGRICULTURAL FAIRS FOR 1859. 
of our political troubles is the prolific cause of each 
and singular of the above—simply this; we no 
longer lenow the patron diet of the north — the 
leguminous bean. 
The whole swarming throng of evils which have 
come upon us like the murrain, and frogs, and lice 
of Egypt, are but afflictions from a dispensing 
hand to bring us again to a knowledge of our 
peculiar interests by acquaintance with beans. 
Our people have not only forgotten beans in the 
outward world—politics, finance, &c.—but the body 
and heart have become contaminated. Rice, with 
its able and efficient supporters in the contest— 
Cotton and Tobacco — has introduced many and 
grievous habits. And as one vice alone seldom 
takes its abode in the human heart, so others follow 
in sickening detail, clinging like leeches to the 
deluded recruits of our Arch-Adversary until taken 
as bosom companions, thus evidencing that we are 
worthy the reproach, as a people, of not knowing 
beans. 
0 ! ye deluded sons and daughters of the Puri¬ 
tans ! acquire the habits and virtues, and adopt the 
manners and dress of your successful fathers, that 
your liberties may be upheld, your good name 
maintained, and your triumph insured. Think not 
to acquire happiness by abandoning the teachings 
of your worthy sires for those of to-day, and 
remember that, although “the wicked flourish for 
a season, their end is death.” Harden not your 
hearts like Pharaoh of old, but consider present 
visitations persuasive enough to direct you into 
the way, and ever after in national councils—in 
politics, and finance, and morals, cling to the inter¬ 
ests of your own soil in opposition, if it must be, to 
all all others, and let no antagonism of vegetables, 
or lure of trade, blind you from knowing our true- 
born, politic and sagacious counselor—the She- 
kinah of our success and liberty—the Leguminous 
Bean. W. H. Gardner. 
Amboy, Ill., 1859. 
Agricultural ilUsccllanj) 
many accounts, pleased with the location, but still 
the Farm has great capacity, and perhaps is well 
adapted for the purposes intended. I regret that 
want of time precludes me from entering into de¬ 
tails regarding the future of the College. It must 
not now be allowed to falter or fail. 
Yours, p. 
are quite advanced. “Meal" will make young 
turkeys “droop” and die, as surely as it is fed to 
them, but by feeding as above directed, a careful 
person will not lose one turkey in raising a hun¬ 
dred. If any should show signs of drooping or 
sickness, increase the pepper and they will come 
up all right. Quite young turkeys should be pro¬ 
tected from the wet, as they are very easily affect¬ 
ed by it—often fatally. Miss Kate A. Green. 
Lancaster, Erie Co., N. Y., 1859. 
Annexed is as complete a list of National, State 
County and Town Fairs for 1S59 as we are enabled to 
give at the present time. We shall re-publish the list, 
with additions, next month, and trust Secretaries of 
Societies will meantime assist us by forwarding the 
necessary data in regard to Fairs not now enumerated: 
IT. S. Ag. Society, Chicago. 
Maryland, Frederick City. 
Tennessee, Nashville. 
Georgia, Atlanta. 
Illinois, Freeport. 
Indiana, New Albany. 
Iowa, Oscaloosa. 
Kentucky, Lexington... 
Maine, Augusta. 
New Jersey, Elizabeth. 
New York, Albany. 
South Carolina, Columbia. 
Ohio, Zanesville. 
Vermont, Burlington. 
California.. 
Michigan, Detroit. 
Missouri, St. Louis. 
Canada West, Kingston. 
Canada East. 
NEW YORK. 
Cayuga, Auburn.. 
Delaware,.. 
Erie, Buffalo. 
Greene, Cairo. 
Jefferson, Watertown. 
Livingston, Geneseo. 
Monroe, Rochester. 
Oneida, Rome. 
Onondaga, Syracuse. 
Orleans, Albion. 
Oswego, Mexico,. 
Putnam, Carmel,. 
Queens,.. 
Rensselaer, Lansingburgli,. 
Saratoga,... 
Schuyler, Watkins,. 
Seneca, Waterloo,. 
Steuben,-,. 
Westchester, North Salem,. 
W y oming, W arsaw,. 
Yates, —,. 
TOWN SOCIETIES. 
Brookfield, Brookfield,. 
Canaseraga, Dansville,. 
Coventry, Coventry,. 
Dryden, Dryden,.. 
Galen .Clyde,. 
Palmyia, Palmyra,. 
omo. 
Fayette, Washington. 
Pickaway, Circlcville. 
Ashtabula, Jefferson. 
Geauga, Burton. 
Brown, Georgetown. 
Jefferson, Steubenville. 
Erie, Huron. 
Marion, Marion. 
Madison, London. 
Portage, Ravenna. 
Brown, (Ind.) Ripley. 
Clermont, Olive Branch. 
Delaware, Delaware. 
Lake, Painesville. 
Preble, Eaton . 
Lorain, Elyria. 
Belmont, St. Clairsville. 
Medina, Medina. 
Greene, Xenia. 
Champaign, Urbana. 
Adams, West Union. 
Tuscarawas, Canal Dover. 
Geauga, (Free) Claridon. 
Columbiana, New Lisbon. 
Highland, Hillsboro. 
Seneca, Tiffin. 
Fulton, Ottakee. 
Defiance, Defiance. 
Union, Marysville. 
Putnam, Ottawa. 
Hancock, Findlay. 
Logan, Bellefontaine. 
Sandusky, Fremont. 
Mahoning, Canfield. 
Darke, Greeneville,. 
Cuyahoga, Cleveland. 
Clark, 8pringfiejd...,. 
Licking, Newark. 
TnE Weather — Haying and Harvesting. — The 
weather of the past week has been most auspicious for 
the labor in which farmers are generally engaged — 
Haying and Harvesting. The present week opened 
very warm, and as wo write (Tuesday) the weather is 
becoming hot and dry. Considerable grass was cut 
last week. The crop is very light, as previously report¬ 
ed. Many farmers commenced harvesting wheat and 
barley ten days ago, and that important labor will be 
mostly completed in this region the present week. Both 
crops are generally good. Except in limited localities 
where it was injured by frost, the wheat crop is remark¬ 
ably fine. Of course comparatively little is grown, but 
in proportion to the amount the yield promises to be 
most satisfactory. Had as much been sown as of yore— 
of early varieties, at the right time, and on proper soil 
—Western New York would this season produce a large 
surplus of “ pure Genesee.” 
RICE vs. BEANS. 
Messrs. Eds.: — In the Rural of June 25th, I 
noticed an inquiry about turkey raising. Now it 
is just as easy to “ raise” a brood of tufkeys as of 
chickens, and (if raised for market) a great deal 
more profitable. I will give the method “our 
folks ” have tried for the last three years and with 
good success, not having lost a single turkey.— 
Here goes. We put the eggs under a hen and 
when “hatched” put them into a coop and fed 
them well with oat-meal, and occasionally some 
sour milk. We give no pepper. When they were 
about six or eight weeks old they leave the hen to 
scratch “on their own hook.” We then fed them 
a little barley, say once or twice a day, till fall. A 
nicer lot of “ Thanksgiving Turkeys ” was not to 
be found and they brought the highest price in the 
fall. Raising them with a hen prevents their ram¬ 
bling off as they would with the “ old turkey”— 
and, again, corn meal is not good for turkeys — it 
is too “loosening.” None of our neighbors who 
have used it have had good luck with theirs.—W. 
G. Richey, Malone, Franklin Co., N. Y., 1859. 
W iikat in Western New York. —For nearly a decade 
past, Western New York lias scarcely been “counted 
in ” by those who annually make estimates relative to 
the Wheat Crop, its probable yield, &c. The prevalence 
of the midge for several successive years, discouraged 
the great mass of wheat growers, and but little ground 
has been occupied latterly by the former staple—though 
the success of some in obtaining a good yield last year, 
induced many others to “ try again,” and sow somewhat 
liberally last fall. The result, thus far, has been most 
favorable, where the proper conditions were observed 
as to varieties, soil, and time of seeding — except in 
localities where the Wheat was affected by the severe 
June frost. Indeed, during the past ten days we have 
seen as fine fields of Wheat in this county as were 
grown before the appearance of the midge. Many of 
these bid fair to produce from thirty to forty bushels of 
first quality Wheat to the acre. Among others, we ex¬ 
amined several fields of Dayton wheat, the product of 
seed brought from Ohio last fall by Capt. R. Flinn, of 
Le Roy. It is a very fine variety—a white bald wheat, 
with short, stiff straw, and if it acclimates as well as the 
Mediterranean, will prove invaluable in this region. 
Elisha Harmon, Esq., of Wheatland, has seventy acres 
of tliis variety, which we think will average at least 
thirty bushels to the acre. We are aware that “ one 
swallow does not make a summer ”—that the present 
season has been remarkably favorable for the growth and 
maturity of the wheat plant—yet, from information ob¬ 
tained last season and this, from observation and reliable 
cultivators, we are satisfied that the former great staple 
of this section of the Union, can still be successfully and 
profitably cultivated. We are devoting time and atten¬ 
tion to the subject, and confidently believe that we shall 
be able to state how the midge can be headed and 
Sept. 14-16. 
Sept. 14-15. 
. Sept. 27-29. 
Sept. 28-29. 
.Sept. 21-22. 
Sept. 20-22. 
. Sept. 2S-30. 
, Sept. 27-29. 
. Sept. 20-22. 
.Sept. 20-22. 
.Sept. 18-15. 
.Sept. 27-29. 
.Sept. 15, 
.Sept 18-16. 
.Sept. 6- 8. 
.Sept. 14-16. 
.Oct. 12-14. 
.Sept. 28-80. 
. Sept. 20-22. 
Sept 27-28. 
Oct 12-13. 
Messrs. Eds.: —In answer to an inquiry by a 
“ Reader of the Rural,” I will give him my mode 
of Turkey Raising. In the first place I winter 
over the largest and best turkeys that I have, and 
make them lay and set in the barn, but not near 
the roost, on account of the lice. When they come 
off the nest I grease their heads with lard, give 
them a boiled egg two or three times, and wheat 
bread and new milk till they get to be four or five 
weeks old. They do not like meal and I do not 
think it is good for them when young, but after 
they get to be a month old, then give them meal.— 
I wintered two turkeys and have got thirty-six 
young ones, have lost but one, and that was caught 
by the hawks.—C. H. Rexfoud, Madrid, N. Y. 
.Sept. 28-29. 
Sept. 2S-80. 
Sept. 27-23. 
.Oct. 8- 5. 
.Sept. 15. 
.Oct. 11-18. 
New Englanders was seldom that to tempt the 
appetite. It was rather promotive of sound heads, 
strong nerves, and sinewy arms for labor and de¬ 
fence. Hence, because first in value — prominent 
among the gifts of Ceres —we record Beans. 
This product entered very largely into the diet of 
the early settlers, and was prepared in several dif¬ 
ferent ways—prominent among which was bean- 
soup—more commonly known as bean-porridge, 
“ Best when nine days old.” 
To this invaluable aid, we attribute the manly 
virtues, and strict morals, so long characteristic of 
the New r Englanders. At the period of which we 
speak, this leguminous vegetable was so exten¬ 
sively cultivated and was so fully promotive of the 
success and progress of the people as to deserve 
being called the Era of Beans—or the age when the 
Yankees were emphatically above the reproach of 
“ not knowing beans!” The boys and girls of this 
period were hardy and vigorous, and could tell 
“ which side their bread was buttered ” and “ how 
they came by it.” Their wants, engendered by 
such a regime, were neither fictitious nor difficult 
to satisfy, while the strength imparted is evidenced 
in the changes produced by their labor in not only 
the Eastern States, but New York, Ohio, and the 
West. 
Their homely diet begat no burning desires for 
the expensive or showy in dress, and frequently 
the genuine home-spun arrayed the strong limbs, 
and set off the charms of the generous, hearty and 
happy “ youngfolks.” Wisdom smiled upon theta, 
and the first men of our nation out-grew their 
sunny locks within range of the hunger-appeasing, 
odoriferous soup kettle. 
The War of Independence served in no way to 
detract from the value and fame of beans. In fact 
they seem to have joined in promoting the cause, 
and contributed no inconsiderable items of aid in 
times of necessity towards the final result. The 
devotees of our hero looked for developments flat¬ 
tering alike to their own labor and abstemious 
diet at the close of the war; nor were they dis¬ 
appointed. Cities arose,—commerce increased,— 
wealth was sought and flowed in as a reward for 
their constant labors. Nor in trade, commerce and 
the accumulation of wealth, were they alone suc¬ 
cessful—they maintained their rights in legislative 
halls, and commanded not only national respect, 
but the respect of all nations; so that the repre¬ 
sentatives of the “bean faction” were the messen¬ 
gers of the government. 
But at length, after having enjoyed long and 
uninterrupted supremacy over all other vegeta¬ 
bles, a rival enters the hitherto unobstructed path 
of our progressive hero. Cultivated by a different 
race of people who neither possessed the soil upon 
which it was grown, or were allowed the product 
.Sept. 7- 8. 
.Sept. 7- 9. 
Sept. 13-15. 
Sept. 13-15. 
Sept. 6- 9. 
.Sept. 14-16. 
.Sept. 14-16. 
.Sept. 14-16. 
.Sept. 14-16. 
.Sept. 19-21. 
.Sept. 20-28. 
.Sept. 27-80. 
.Sept. 11-13. 
.Sept. 21-23. 
. Sept. 22-23. 
. Sept. 27-29. 
.Sept. 27-29. 
.Sept. 27-29. 
. Sept. 27-29. 
.Sept. 27-30. 
.Sept. 27-30. 
.Sept. 28-30. 
.Sept. 28-80. 
.Sept. 28-30. 
. Sept. 28-30. 
. Sept. 28-30. 
.Sept. 28-30. 
.Sept. 28-30. 
.Sept. 28-30. 
. Sept. 29-80. 
.Oct, 8- 5. 
Oct. 3- 6. 
.Oct. 5- 7. 
.Oct. 4- 5. 
.Oct. 4- 6. 
. Oct. 4- 6. 
. Oct, 4- 6. 
.Oct. 5- 6„ 
HOW SHOULD HAY BE CURED 1 
-A farmer in a late number says, 
Eds. Rural 
“ The process of curing (hay) should, if possible, 
be perfected in the cock,” and he seems afraid of 
the burning sun. This is a mistake. The true 
way is to “make hay when the sun shines.” I 
have owned horses for the past twenty years, and 
have never had one get the heaves. I attribute 
their exemption to making the hay I have fed 
without cocking. 
NEW YORK STATE AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE. 
soon 
wheat grown abundantly in Western Few York. 
— Most of the wheat we have seen is of the early 
varieties—such as the Mediterranean, Golden Drop, and 
Dayton—yet we hear of some fine fields of the Soule’s 
variety. A great portion of the wheat hereabouts will 
he harvested the present week. 
them, by curing in 
Grass, with all its juice3, particularly clover, will 
soon heat and sweat. And hay that has ever been 
sweated, let it be in cock or mow, must be dusty. 
In fact, the hay is partially or wholly destroyed in 
proportion to the heating. I admit, in most cli¬ 
mates, (like the English,) there is some excuse for 
curing in the cock, but not the least in this cli¬ 
mate. In drying by the sun the grass is cured by 
extraneous heat, while cock-cured grass has, by 
destructive fermentation, to furnish its own heat, 
Now, if we had 
Ovid, July 7, 1859. 
Friend Moore:— The ceremonies attendant 
upon laying the Corner Stone of the State Agri¬ 
cultural College to-day, were highly interesting, 
and as you were precluded from participating in 
the proceedings of the occasion and taking notes, 
I give you a brief account of the “ transactions.” 
The ceremonies took place of course upon the 
College Grounds. About 1 o’clock Gov. King, and 
most of the Trustees, with many leading and ac¬ 
tive friends of the College, formed a procession at 
the Farm House and were escorted to the platform 
by the citizens of Ovid, preceded by the Geneva 
Brass Band. A large concourse had assembled, 
numbering not less than four to five thousand— 
poople who, from their behavior and attention, 
exhibited their deep interest in the proceedings. 
On arriving at the foundation of the College 
edifice, Gov. King called the assemblage to order, 
and an appropriate prayer was offered by the Rev. 
Mr. Hunt of Ithaca. Col. B. P. Johnson, Secre¬ 
tary of the Board of Trustees, read the contents 
of the box to be placed in the Corner Stone, as 
follows: 
Contents of Box Deposited under Corner Stone, Jult/ 
7, 1859. 
Plate with the following inscription: 
NEW YORK STATE AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE, 
July 7, 1859. 
Corner Stone Laid by 
Hon. John A. King, Chairman Board of Trustees. 
Chartered, April 15,1853. 
John Delafield, 1st President: died October 28,1S53. 
Samuel Chef.vee, 2d President: resigned June 80,1S58. 
Trustees, July 7,1859: John A. King, William Kelly, 
B. P. Johnson, Henry Wager, Win. Buell, A. A. Post, 
Joel W. Bacon, J. B. Williams, E. P. Prentice, Sam¬ 
uel Cheever, Addison Gardiner, M. R. Patrick, Rufus 
If. Delafield, Alexander Thompson, Arad Joy, James 
O. Sheldon, Benjamin N. Huntington. 
Officers: John A. King, Chairman Board Trustees; 
B. P. Johnson, Secretary; Arad Joy, Treasurer; J. 
E. Seeley, Counsel to Board; S. E. Ilewes, Albany, 
Architect; Thomas Crawford, Geneva, Builder. 
The Bible, Transactions of the New York State Agri¬ 
cultural Society and American Institute, Red Book, 
Legislative Manual of New' York, Norton’s Elements 
of Agriculture, John Delaflcld’s Report of the Seneca 
County Agricultural Society, Charter of the College, 
1853, List of Officers, and Trustees and Regulations.— 
Reports of Trustees to the Legislature, 1S5S-59. Agri¬ 
cultural Papers, State of New York. Daily Papers:— 
Albany and New' York, and other papers from the 
State. List of Trustees and Officers since charter — 
Rev. B. W. Sprague’s Sermon on the Completion of the 
Atlantic Telegraph. Copy of the last letter of Baron 
Alexander Von Humboldt on receiving the Transac¬ 
tions of the New York State Agricultural Society, April 
15th, 1859, w'ith a letter from the non. J. A. Wright, 
American Minister, Berlin. List of Premiums of the 
New York State Agricultural Society, 1859, and list of 
officers. Proceedings at the Dedication of the New 
State Agricultural Rooms, February 12th, 1857, with 
addresses by B. P. Johnson, Samuel Cheever, T. C. 
Peters, Win. II. Bogart, Wm. Kelly, Gov. John A. King, 
Harvey Baldwin. Addresses before the New York 
State Agricultural Society, by Hon. Edward Everett, 
Jos R. Williams, Alonzo S. Upham, Wm. T. McCoun 
and others. Dr. Asa Fitch’s Reports on the Insects of 
New York. B. P. Johnson’s Report on the World’s 
Fair, 1851. List of the Subscribers and Donors to the 
College. 
Gov. King then laid the Corner Stone, and de¬ 
livered a capital address to the people in attend¬ 
ance. The address will of course be furnished for 
publication. Briefer addresses were also made by 
Maj. M. R. Patrick, of Sackett’s Harbor; Hon. 
A. B. Conger, President of the State Ag. Society; 
Hon. J. B. Williams, of Ithaca; Col. B. P. John- 
son, and others. The remarks of the several gen¬ 
tlemen were appropriate, timely and interesting. 
The evening was celebrated in the village of 
Ovid by a very liberal display of fire works. 
The New York State Agricultural College has 
now become a fixed fact, and its completion placed 
beyond the contingency of a doubt. I am not, on 
and it does so at a great loss, 
room and leisure to hang up our hay and cure it 
in the same manner that tobacco is cured, and as 
medical men do their JLrbs, it w'ould be the best 
way, but that, of won’t pay. Nobody 
medicinal purposet^M^^reen, in heaps or cocks^ 
to self cure by the heating and destructive process. 
Then why persist in curing the food of animals in 
that way ? Caleb Winegar. 
Lake Grove, N. Y., 1859. 
Stark, Canton. J . 
Morrow, Mt. Gilead. 
Harrison, Cadiz. 
Wyandot, Upper Sandusky. 
Wayne, Wooster. 
Monroe, Woodsfield. 
Montgomery, Dayton. 
Summit, Akron. 
Morgan, McConnellsville. 
Crawford, Bucyrus. 
Hardin, Kenton. 
Carroll, Carrollton. 
MICHIGAN. 
Berrien, Niles,. 
Jackson, Jackson. 
Kent, Grand Rapids,. 
Sanilac, Lexington,. 
TENNESSEE 
Maury, Columbia. 
Middle Division, Shelbyville,. 
Shelby. Memphis,. 
Smith, Rome,. 
Sumner, Gallatin,. 
Williamson, Franklin,. 
INDIANA. 
Clay, Center Point,. 
Fulton, Rochester,. 
Owen, Spencer,. 
MISSOURI. 
Chariton, Kcyteville,. 
Clay, ... 
Clinton,.. 
Jackson, ... 
Lewis, Newark,. 
North-West Disk, St. Joseph,. 
Platte,..... 
MAINE. 
Androseroggin,... 
Franklin, Farmington,.. 
Kennebec, Readfield,. 
Lincoln, Union,. 
North Franklin, Strong,. 
Culture of Potatoes. 
A writer in the Prairie Farmer thinks pota¬ 
toes are seriously injured by working when wet 
with dew or rain, and relates the following experi¬ 
ment tried last year:—“ A part of his potato field, 
the whole of which was treated alike, and a good 
soil, he plowed and hoed once only, in the middle 
of the day when the ground was perfectly dry, 
leaving them untouched until dug in October. The 
vines kept green throughout the season, and the 
crop of potatoes was very large. The other portion 
of the field was worked three times when the 
ground was wet with dew. These blighted early, 
gave but half a crop, and that of an inferior quality. 
The seed aud time of planting were the same.” 
dialing TJnder Hie Collar. 
We clip the following from the Boston Journal : 
“ A gentleman who has tried the plan successfully 
for five years, communicates the annexed method 
of preventing horses from chafing under the col¬ 
lar. He says he gets a piece of leather and has 
what he terms a false collar made, which is simply 
a piece of leather cut in such a shape as to lie, 
singly, between the shoulders of the horse and 
the collar. This fends off all the friction, as the 
collar slips and moves on the leather, and not on 
the shoulders of the horse. Chafing is caused by 
friction, hence, you see, the thing is entirely plau¬ 
sible. Some persons puts pads or sheep-skins 
under the collar; these, they say, do as much hurt 
as good, for they augment the heat. A single 
piece of leather, like that composing the outside 
of a collar, without any lining or stuffing, he as¬ 
sures us, is better than anything else.” 
New Ivind. of Cattle Food. 
The English beef breeders are always on the 
lookout for cheap and nutritious feed for their 
stock. They use up everything that they can grow 
at home, and import millions of tons of different 
kinds of feed to supply the deficiency. More than 
100,000 tons of oil cake are imported annually into 
the island, the greater part of which is obtained in 
the United States. The London Farmers' Maga¬ 
zine gives an account of a new species of cattle 
food which is beginning to be imported in large 
quantities, and used by the farmers. It is called 
the “Locust,” or locust beans. It is the fruit of 
the locust tree (Ceratonia Siliqua) which grows in 
Spain and South of Europe. 
.Sept. 19-24. 
-Sept. 26-Oct. 1. 
.Sept. 11-15. 
.Sept. 28-Oct. 1. 
.Sept. 26-Oct. 1, 
Oct. 4-7. 
The New England Farmer of last week announces 
that Mr. Noukse, who revived the paper in 1849, and 
has been its principal proprietor since that period, has 
relinquished a portion of his interest—one-third, to Mr. 
Alhert Tolman, who has chiefly managed its business 
concerns for the past five years, and one-third to Mr 
Russell P. Eaton, recently of Augusta, Me., and for 
several years editor of the News and Miscellaneous 
departments of the Maine Farmer. The new partners 
are said to be young, enterprising and capable, and will 
add strength to a journal which has long ranked among 
the best of its class. Ex-Lieut. Gov. Brown will con¬ 
tinue as the Agricultural Editor, in which position 
(with Wm. Symonds, Esq., as General Editor,) he has 
earned an enviable reputation, and rendered the Farmer 
both popular and profitable. The new firm—Messrs. 
Noubse, Eaton & Tolman— and all concerned in con¬ 
ducting the Farmer, have our best wishes. 
—A telegram just received, announces that Mr. 
Symonds, General Editor of the F. E. Farmer and 
author of the popular “Aimwell Stories,” died of con¬ 
sumption on Friday night last. 
Oct.-. 
Oct. 5-7. 
.Oct, 11-13. 
Oct. 18-20. 
Sept. 28-29. 
Monroe County Horse Saw—Premiums Awarded. 
—Below we give a list of the Premiums awarded at 
the recent Horse Show of the Monroe Co. Ag. Society: 
Class I.— Horses for Road and Carriage. 
Stallions— 4 Years Old—Best, .1. Sherwood, Mendon, $15: 
2d, A. 11. Uuckland, Brighton. $10. Best 3 Years Old, Leon- 
aid liuckland, Brighton, $8; 2d, llowe & Hall, Rochester, $5. 
Matched ITorses— Geldings—Best. John Craig, Rochester, 
$30; 2d, II. II. Norman, Fairport, $15. Mares—liest, M C 
Morduff, Rochester, $25; 2d, F. L. Churchill, Rochester, $15. 
Single Horses— Geldings—Best, F. ,T. Ayers, Rochester, 
$20; 2d, E. D. Pierson, Rochester, $10. Mares—Best, W. 
Howland, Mendon, $10, 2d, Ashley Colvin, Henrietta, $5. 
Class II.— Draft and Work Horses. 
Stallions— 4 Years Old—Best, Azor Doty, Sweden, $15; 
2d, Harry Olmstead, Greece, $10, Best 2 Years Old, Collins 
Eldridge, I’ittsford, $5. 
Matc7ied qorses-Ge\d ings-Best, G. & C. Crouch, Roch¬ 
ester, $20: 2d, Same. 
Geldings and Fillies— Gelding, 3 Years Old —Best, Wm. 
Yeo, Brighton, $10. Filly-Best, D. S. Whitlock, Brighton, $8. 
Class III.— Horses for General Utility. 
Stallions—A Years Old—Best, J. K. Balentine. Chili, $15; 
2d, SI. Jackson, Henrietta, $10. Best 3 Years Uhl, N. Case, 
Little fear was entertained in the beginning of 
an unfavorable result to our own toil-earned pro¬ 
duct; but for some unexplained cause,— although 
rice did not supply the place of beans as food,—the 
latter grew into less and less repute, until only 
occasional day of extra 
Frost in July. —The “ glorious fourth ” opened very 
coolly in this region, for we learn that there was a regu¬ 
lar white frost in many localities of Western New York. 
We hear of no special damage, however—owing, per- 
luij)S, to the firing of cannon, (though the object was 
different from that suggested by our Chautauque Co. 
friend, whose article on “firing cannon to prevent 
frost” was noticed two weeks ago.) Letters from Ohio 
and Michigan mention frost there also, on the 4th, but 
no serious damage is reported. 
found offered when 
physical exertion called for increased supplies of 
healthful nutriment. 
The result of the abandonment of beaus has been 
fertile in multiplied disasters. The wisdom of 
judgment,—the energy of action,—the high aim 
and unswerving integrity of purpose,—which once 
characterized our representatives is no more. Our 
parties are broken—our councils distracted—our 
efforts feeble and profitless. Rice has gained in 
every onset, and if not apparently victorious, man¬ 
ages to recruit its strength in every struggle. Tri¬ 
umph has followed triumph, until we behold the 
antagonism of vegetables engaging the attention of 
the highest intellects of the civilized world and dis¬ 
tracting and rendering stormy and boisterous the 
councils of a great people. 
The poweis of wisdom, the labors of philosophy, 
and the cunning of reason, have all been invoked to 
assign the cause of our present position in tbe 
Financial, Commercial and Political world, and 
each has been baffled—the real cause remaining 
Tiie United States Fair, which is to be held at 
Chicago this year, is the subject of a sharp chapter or 
two by our friends of the Prairie Farmer, who evi¬ 
dently don’t like national interference with State affairs 
—affirming that the “ Great National Exhibition ” will 
prove injurious in lessening the interest and attendance 
at the Illinois State Fair. 
An Endowment in behalf of Agricultural Education 
has been made by P. St. George Cocke, Esq., who has 
presented to the Virginia Military Institute $20,000 for 
the establishment of an Agricultural Department in that 
institution. 
It states that in Sicily 
the quantity gathered amounts to eleven or twelve 
thousand tons in a year. They have long been 
used as cattle food in Spain, and are even relished 
by the inhabitants when fresh and ripe, from the 
sweet pulp they contain. According to a careful 
analysis these Carole or Locust beans give 65 per 
cent, of sugar and gum, and about 25 per cent, of 
nutritious vegetable matter. 
Correspondents are again advised that all articles 
must be accompanied by the real name and residence 
of the writers to secure attention. It is not necessary 
that the Dames be published, but they must be in our 
possession. 
