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©ORE'S RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
<3tt(Iii!itt[inl pieties. 
NEW YOEK STATE PAIR. 
In a Vacation Letter, cur Associate sends 
us an interesting account of the recent New 
York State Fair, from which wc make the 
following extracts: 
THE FAIR GROUNDS. 
These are readied by steam or horse cars, 
omnibuses, &c. They are finely located, anc 
when properly graded and a good grass sod 
covers them they will be beautiful. Tin 
buildings erected for the accommodation oi 
stock of all kinds and articles for exhibition 
are admirable. The only want of adaptation 
I saw was the putting the fruit and cut flow¬ 
ers into a green-house and compelling people 
to swelter in it for the sake of seeing them 
A canvas tent or a board shanty would have 
been better. But 1 learned that this beauti 
ful glass structure was not designed for the 
purpose for which it is used this year. 
IN THE STOCK DEPARTMENTS 
there is a good deal to see. The milch breed- 
are largely represented — Iloleteins, Jersey, 
or Alderneys, Ayrshire* and Devons. Thi 
Short-Horn show waa meager—good animal 
but not that imposing predominance which 
has hitherto obtained at the Fairs of this Bo 
ciety I have attended. It shows which waj 
the wind blows, that the exhibition of milci 
stock was ; o large and line and attracted s< 
much attention. With X. A. Willard w< 
looked at the Holstein , He will doubtles 
have something to say of them. The cow. 
certainly cany the points of good milker 
and are besides long, rangy animals, witl 
sufficient frame to carry a great deal of fleai 
when it becomes necessary to fatten them. 
Whether they will give an equal amount 0 
milk of equal quality in proportion to tin 
food they consume with other mil'-ir breed 
remains to bo shown by practical experience 
in this country. Certainly, when their milk 
ing days are over, they have the frames upor 
which to hang an amount of flesh equal t< 
that which can be put on most Short-Hori 
cows. Of the other milch breeds I need no 
speak, for they are known in this country, 
Gen. IIungerford’s “Old Creamer” was oi 
exhibition, but I did net learn what ainourn 
of cream she produced from the largi 
amount of milk credited to her last June. 
She is a fine cow—no mistake about it. 
The show of Swine was large and credit 
able to breeders, though I have seen a large; 
and quite as good a show before. Col. Cur 
tis had a large number of Victoria pig 
there, und Cl kk & Green some monste 
“ Improved Cheshire*.” The Victorias an 
not yet an established breed ; the type is no. 
yet fixed ; but it, is apparent that the stand 
ard aimed at is a good one and that a nea. 
approach to it is attained in some of the pig: 
on exhibition. 
The Sheep Department embraced but few 
Merinos, some South and Shropshire Downs 
a few Leicester* and Cotswolds. Then 
were some good animals exhibited. 
The Horses I scarcely got a glimpse of 
they being secured from sight in close stall, 
and only taken out long enough for tin 
judges to examine them. 1 could not “ han( 
around” for such a chance, and unfortunate¬ 
ly (for me, probably,) no man ordered then 
all out of the stalls at once for rny accommo 
elation I I was told by some of the ofllcer.- 
that there were vary lino animals present. 
THE STOVE DEALERS 
occupied an entire hall. The gurrulousnes- 
of “Bee-men” at Fairs is proverbial; Here¬ 
after I shall stake my felt hat on the stovi ^ 
men. What a Babel it was! and the hea; ", 
from the full-charged stoves ! and the dainC ", 
in 1S69. Emery has, I believe, added an au¬ 
tomatic feeder since to his. But then how 
can an Editor out of Harness, and who never 
planted a cotton seed, scarcely pulled a cot¬ 
ton ball, and ccrtuiuly never fed a cotton 
gin, lie expected to know anything about the 
comparative merits of such machines ! 
AMONG THE FARM IMPLEMENTS 
there was a good deal to interest. Of course 
the reapers, mowers, drills, cultivators, hay 
tedders, harrows, feed cutters, plows, potato- 
diggers, threshing machines, hay-loading 
machine, hay-presses, &c., &c., were there 
in great variety. But a mun may theorize 
about a plow, or any other of these mo- 
•hines ; and yet if he is a practical man, he 
wants to see them work and work them 
himself. Why, I got pulled and hauled 
about by two or three exhibitors of reversi- 
ole plows. Each one proved to mo, by the 
logic of words based on his own premises, 
•>hat his plow was the best and the others the 
poorest. One hod an adjustable coulter. So 
lid another, in a different, form. It, was cu¬ 
rious to notice the subtlety with which they 
tried to get an opinion off the end of my 
tongue I But then 1 wanted to see thorn 
work ! Aud the Rural New-Yorker read- 
ts may be sure that I’ll not give an opinion 
concerning the merits of any farm imple¬ 
ment until I do see it work, i’ve been mis- 
»ed aixl seen others misled too often b v these 
newspaper opinions to inllict mine upon any 
mo unless 1 have a better basis for it than 
•xamiuiug a plow, reaper or any other work¬ 
ing implement standing still on a board ! It 
is so easy to be mistaken ! 
TAKEN AS A WHOLE, 
.lie New \ ork State Fair is creditable, and 
is conducted with high-toned dignity and 
lecorum. Matters seem to be thorougldy 
ystematized, and things move like elock- 
Falls, N. Y., the Warrior Mower and Ran¬ 
dall’s Pulverizing Harrow, Stuart Perry, 
Newport, N. Y., Perry’s New York Hay 
Tedder. 
Taylor MTg Co., Dayton, Ohio, the Taylor 
Horse Hay Rake. J,vs. K, Wisner, Friend¬ 
ship, N. Y., Winner’s Self-Operating Horse 
Hay Rake. A. J. Nellis & Co„ Pittsburg, 
Pa., Nellis’ Harpoon Hay Fork. Pennock 
M’f'g Co., Kennett’s Square, Pa., Pennock’s 
Double Harpoon Hay Fork. Auburn M’f’g 
Co., Auburn, N. Y., a fine assortment of 
Rakes, Hay Forks, etc. 
Min-aro Harder, Cobleskill, N. Y., Har¬ 
der’s Gold Medal Horse-Power and Thresher 
and Cleaner. M. Williams & Co., St. Johns- 
ville, New York, Williams’ Railway Horse- 
Powers. 
New York Plow Co., 94 Beekman St., New 
York, Gale’s Copper Strip Hay Cutters. 
Robert Butter worth, Trenton, N. J., the 
Jersey Apple Grinder. 
Brinkerboff Manufacturing Co., Auburn, 
N. Y., Continental Washing Machine. Em¬ 
pire Clothed Wringer Co., (J. Brinkerhoff, 
agent,) Auburn, N. Y., the new Empire 
Clothes Wringer. 
Whitman & Burrell, Little Falls, N. Y., 
Anderson’s Food Steamer and Steam Boiler, 
the Kipp Engine aud a Lard Renderer and 
Boiler. 
P. 1C. Dederick, Albany, N. Y., a large 
display of Huy Baling Presses. The Orange 
Co. Milk Poll Co., Franklin, N. Y., set of 
Patent Milk Fans. 
S. C. Allen to. Co., Philadelphia, Pa., a 
full set Flaunt Seed Drills and Cultivators. 
II. G. Eastman, (Eastman’s Business Col¬ 
lege,) Poughkeepsie, N. Y., some line speci¬ 
mens of Penmanship, Eastman’s Steel Pens, 
etc., etc. 
Geo. W. Vinino, Jr., Albany, N, Y., the 
©It n gflnientHit. 
SHALL FARMERS RAISE TROTTING 
HORSES. 
'.ystematized, and things move like clock- Bickford Knitting Machines. Singer Manu- 
vvork. One thing, however, the Society has factoring Co., New York, Singer Sewing and 
ailed to do—it has failed to please every Manufacturing Machines. Weed Sewing Ma- 
oody—especially that blessed part of the chine Co., Hartford, Conn., a full assortment 
exhibitors who did not Luke any premiums, 
fo do this hereafter, seems to be about the 
inly thing left for tne S ociety to accomplish. 
Jy the way, 1 neglected to say that the ex¬ 
hibition in the Poultry Department was very 
creditable indeed.) I notice, by looking over 
he Catalogue of Entries, that the total num- 
je.r is 2,820. But I find that there are many 
•Utrlcii made for which there is no corre¬ 
sponding exhibitor. Perhaps, however, there 
ire enough exhibitors (who are not competi¬ 
tors) to counterbalance the absence of those 
.vbo made entries for t he sake of the couse- 
luent advertisement in the catalogue and 
.ailed to put in an appearance. 
of Weed Sewing and Manufacturing Ma¬ 
chines. 
L. G. Rose, Albany, N. Y., a full line of 
Joints’ Asbestos Roofing Materials. 
V. P. Doihv to Co., Albany, N. Y., general 
assortment of Seeds, Bulbs, Rustic Work, 
Vuses, Garden Statuary, etc., etc, 
IV. Z. Ripley, agent for W. I). Cowles of 
317 Broadway, New York, a fine display of 
the products of the lands adjoining the Iowa 
and Burlington R. It., in Nebraska. 
young women who kneaded the dougi 
which was converted into biscuits and loaves 
to be baked right before the eyes of tin 
sweltering throng in so many minutes bj 
the watch I 
MANUFACTURERS' HALL 
was filled with humans. The crowd and the 
heat rendered it impossible to stop and set 
what was there to see. The shops of Albany 
had evidently been largely drawn uj on auu 
the manufacturers thereof had manifested 
FURTHER NCTES OK FARM IMPLEMENTS, ETC. 
Our readers will be glad to know that 
Advertisers iu the Rural New-Yorker wore 
argely represented at the State Fair, as wit¬ 
less the following notes from one of our 
reporters who devoted his time and a f ten¬ 
don to the Department of Farm Implements, 
Machinery, toe.: 
The Ames Plow Co. of Boston, Mass., made 
i fine show, exhibiting the American Hay 
redder, Ferry Mower, Sessions & Knox and 
Hakes’ Flows, Burt Horse Hay Rake, and a 
irgc assortment of farm and garden tools. 
The Oneonta M’f’g Co., Oaeonta, N. Y., 
Exhibited Hodge’s Fatent Reversible Plow. 
The Remington Agricultural Co., Ilion, N. 
Y., exhibited a full line of their Mohawk 
Valley Clipper Plows. 
The Farmer’s Favorite Grain Drill was 
well represented by S. N. Gallup, General 
Agent, Macedon, N. Y. The Buckeye Gram 
drill, Buckeye Cider Mill, etc., by P. P. Mast 
to Co., Springfield, Ohio. Carliart’s l'ulver- 
zing Cultivator, American Harvester, Acme 
Mower und Steel Road Scraper, were exhib- 
ted by the Bradley Manufacturing Co., 
Syracuse, N. Y. 
Wheeler, Melick to Co. of Albany, N. Y,, 
made a handsome display of Horse-Powers 
md Threshers; also of the Ithaca Sulky 
Rake, Two-Horse Cultivator, Farm Grain 
Mill, etc. 
Adklvnce, Platt & Co. of New York, ex- 
-libited the Buckeye Mower and Buckeye 
Combined Mac]lines. The Dodge & Steven- 
OTHER PROMINENT FAIRS. 
THE ILLINOIS STATE FAIR 
At Peoria was, we learn, a great success. 
The usual magnificent display of cattle, 
horses, sheep and swine was made. An ex¬ 
cellent, t hough nor, large, display of Poultry 
was made. The Fruit and Floral Show was 
too large for the accommodations—a result 
to bo credited to the more liberal premiums 
offered for such products. Grain* were ex¬ 
hibited in great variety. Vegetables were 
not so well represented. The exhibition of 
farm machinery was extraordinarily large 
and excellent. The total receipts of the Fair 
were $29,288—ever §4,000 more than was ever 
taken at any of the twenty previous Fairs of 
tlie Society, indicating a large attendance, 
and that hard times does not prevent the 
farmers of that wonderful State from assem¬ 
bling themselves together. 
THE MICHIGAN STATE FAIR, 
at Grand Rapids, is reported to have been a 
great success, nearly 80,000 persons having 
visited the grounds. The number of entries 
is reported to have exceeded that of any 
previous years, and the exhibition is pro¬ 
nounced most excellent. The Pomologieal 
feature of the show was especially fine, as 
we expected it would be, the Fair being lo¬ 
cated iu the Pomologieal part of the State. 
The Fair, as an illustration of the resources 
ol' the State aud prosperity aud enterprise of 
its people was au exceedingly gratifying one, 
not oaly to State pride, but to all who know 
how much depends upon success in industrial 
pursuits. YVe congratulate our Michigan 
readers vipon the record they have made this 
The question is often asked by the farmers 
of the West, “will it pay to raise trotting 
horses (” Our opinion upon this question is, 
that usually it will not; in exceptional cases, 
it will. The farmer who has only the mongrel, 
common mares of the country, cannot afford 
to pay the prices demanded for the services 
of a first-class trotting stallion ; and if he 
should decide to incur t his expense, in ninety- 
nine cases out of a hundred he will be disap¬ 
pointed in the result. Should he patronize 
any of the cheap, quick-stepping, mongrel 
little stallions with which the country now 
abounds, in the hope of raising a t rotter, he 
iR almost certain to be disappointed, and the 
progeny will be comparatively worthless. 
True, there is now and then an exceptional 
case, when a horse of unknown lineage has 
proven a valuable trotter ; but the chances 
for success in this style of breeding are about 
equal to those of drawing the capital prize 
in the “ Royal Havana Lottery," by investing 
in tickets in that institution. 
But if mares of unmistakable and decided 
trotting action, allowing points of good 
breeding and strong individuality, can be 
obtained, and a stallion known to be deeply 
bred In trotting strains, and showing decided 
t rotting action himself, is within reach, then 
the chances are that it will pay to attempt 
to breed trotters. And if, in addition to the 
foregoing, the mares are known to possess a 
good share of the blood of some ol the well- 
established trotting families—the Messengers, 
Bashaws, Morgans, Clays, Pilots or Mim- 
brinos—then the judicious selection of a stal¬ 
lion is pretty certain to produce satisfactory 
results. It need not lie expected that every 
foal thus produced will prove a “ world beat¬ 
er,” because only the fastest among the fast 
are the winners ; but good trotters and road 
horses will usually be the result, and you are 
in the legitimate succession for a winner. 
But it will not do for the farmer or his boys 
to spend much time or money in training the 
foals thus nroduced. It will be found more 
profitable to sell these well-bred youngsters 
at fair, remunerative rates, and leave the 
training to the professionals who have the 
requisite skill to prepare them for the track. 
It has been remarked that “the American 
trotter is the creat ion of the American train¬ 
er,” It requires skill, judgment and perse¬ 
verance to develop the highest rato of speed 
in the trotting horse. Training trotting 
horses has become a profession, and wo 
would not recommend farmers to spend their 
time in competition with those who make 
this their solo business. 
Under the circumstances above described, 
with well-bred mares and a good stallion, 
and selling off the foals when young, the 
farmer can scarcely engage in a more profit¬ 
able business than in breeding horses. But 
the great mass of farmers, owning only the 
mongrel, clumsy inures of the country, will 
find more certain profit in breeding large 
horses, patrouizing the Norman or Clydes¬ 
dale stallions, or a large, well-formed thor¬ 
oughbred if within reach, producing good 
draft aud course horses that always find u 
ready sale at remunerative prices .—Stock 
Exchange. 
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NOTES FOR HORSEMEN. 
ST manufacturer. StadASS J 04 *** **? »Pon *• —1 they have made SS 
creditable enterprise by filling this mamifl /, ‘ \/ a " uin £ Aumitn, N. A., the year, and hope they may continue to develop 
“t* Ja \ r Tf • «“«’*• — 
u not do more than daft with the tideni . ;r s. Nash to Bros , 11U Liberty St., N. Y., THE NEW HAMPSHIRE STATE FAIR, 
breathing room in thetpen tor/' ° ° W ^ '°k ^n\th ifn*’/ h* ** Manchester * commeucI ng Sept. 30th, is 
pnwre mui iy ancl tbu Dullard Hay tedder. D. reported to have been creditable to the State 
M. Osborne to Co., Auburn N. Y., the Kirby and successful. Judging by the published 
r tb ° P r anmg 0orabinea Reaper aud Mower with the Bal- list of entries, nearly every department was 
mills, pumps, &c., were busy. I got a glimpse timore Rake, the Burdick Reaper and toe creditably filled. YVe notice there were fif tv- 
H r ^ ^ exhibitor, Kirby Wheel Mower with new lifting four entries of babies in competition for 
fL L ' ‘JVi a ^.° ur ; bls Cotton hwer. Walter A. Wood M. & R. M. Co., prizes offered. In our judgment this is a 
Gin Beside t stood the Needle Urn, inanu Hoosic Faffs, N. Y.. the New Wood Prize legitimate feature of an agricultural Fair- 
factored at Ihon, I believe. Both these ma- Mower, and Wood’s Combined Machine,, for there is no family of uLmIs that Zd 
chines I saw at work m the cotton country The Warrior Mowing Machine Co., Little improving more than the human famffv 
THE NEW HAMPSHIRE STATE FAIR, 
at Manchester, commencing Sept. 30th, is 
reported to have been creditable to the State 
and successful Judging by toe published 
list of entries, nearly every department was 
creditably filled. Wc notice there were fifty- 
four cut rios of babies in competition for 
prizes offered. In our judgment this is a 
legitimate feature oi' an agricultural Fair; 
for there is no family of animals that need 
improving more than thy human family. 
Founder Remedy.—A correspondent of the 
Agriculturist says “as soon as the horse is 
found to be stiff swab the legs and feet with 
hot water—so hot that the hand cannot bear 
to touch it, but not so hot as to scald. After 
a short time the legs should be rubbed dry 
and the horse gently exercised. Has never 
known this to fail to remedy the trouble. 
A correspondent of the Rural Sun says: 
“ Founder in its worst form can be cured by 
standing your horse all day in water deep 
enough to come up over his back. Running 
water is best. This is also a certain cure for 
Spanish Fence, a disease common in Missis¬ 
sippi, Louisiana and Texas. 
L ice in the Ma ne and Tail .—I have a year¬ 
ling colt that was lousy last winter and I 
used Scotch snuff to kill them, but did not 
succeed in doing so. Then I bought some 
tobacco and more snuff, steeped them to¬ 
gether and applied that; but it did not kill 
the pest. She seems to be free from them all 
but her mane and foretop.—C. W. Davis. 
A friend of ours used what he had seen 
recommended in the Rural New-Yorker— 
on ounce of arsenic to a pail of Boft water, 
washing the animal thoroughly in a warm 
place, and says he has not seen an insect 
since. 
