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THE CULTIVATOR. 
Oct. 
on the field while used as a pasture, feed and sustain 
these grubs, and thus destroy our corn ? If we credit 
the manure ten bushels of wheat to the acre, perhaps 
we should charge it with sixty bushels of corn to the 
acre, plus the cost of the lost battle with the grubs. 
You are mistaken as to my manuring corn. It is 
many years since I have done much at manuring corn; 
grass-lands and wheat receive the greatest benefit from 
manure with us. But I think that wheat and grass 
can be over-manured—as was our ten acre field. The 
fact that fifty loads of straw gave only a little more 
than four hundred bushels of wheat, shows this. The 
raised wheat, that you also saw, gave twice the grain 
to the same amount of straw. I think that your read¬ 
ers are interested in knowing that thi3 wheat of which 
we are saying so much, was Mediterranean. George 
Geddes. Fair mount , Onondaga Co., N. Y. 
Agricultural Exhibitions. 
Vermont. —To begin at the east, we can say little 
in relation to the Exhibition of this State, held at Bur¬ 
lington, further than that the weather must have been 
unfavorable at least on Thursday. We learned at 
Springfield that a number of fine horses, that might 
otherwise have been expected there , were shown in¬ 
stead at Burlington, and have no doubt that this de¬ 
partment was creditably sustained. A friend who was 
present, represents the Exhibition in other respects and 
attendance as both fair. 
Rhode Island. —The Industrial Exhibition, as it is 
termed in the newspapers, opened at Providence, Sept. 
16, and the halls of the association “ were full to over 
flowing all day. The cattle show passed off very suc¬ 
cessfully. The number of horses on exhibition was 
greater than on any former occasion. Some very fine 
animals were on the grounds. The stock of cows and 
swine was also very good.” 
New-Jersey. —There were in all departments near¬ 
ly eleven hundred entries. The Show was held about 
ODe mile east of Trenton, upon largo and commodious- 
ly arranged grounds. The collection of farm imple¬ 
ments and machinery is said to have been larger than 
usual—that of fruits and vegetables less than might 
have been anticipated in a region so well cultivated 
and largely devoted to the production of these articles. 
Wednesday the attendance did not equal the hopes of 
the management; the afternoon was devoted to the 
exhibition of horses and mules on the track. Mules 
and jacks are said to have been a good display ; of the 
horses, the entries were large in number, but the ani¬ 
mals themselves do not appear to have been all “ up 
to time.” Of five thorough-bred stallions present, the 
Arabian horse Caliph attracted the greatest share of 
attention, and was universally admired. This animal 
was from the stable of the late Abbas Pasha, Viceroy 
of Egypt, and was imported to this country by ex- 
Consul Judge Jones of Philadelphia. He is silver- 
gray, 15 hands high, and 7 years of age.” Thursday 
the grounds were visited by the almost universal storm 
of that day, and as a consequence the extra trains on 
the railroads came in almost empty. By 2 o’clock, 
however, it cleared up, and the weather was delight¬ 
ful, and visitors were more numerous. We have seen 
no report on the quality or kinds of cattle shown; the 
number of entries was only 41, while that of horses, 
mules and jacks was 234, and of sheep, swine, and 
poultry, 74. In fact horses and the display of manu¬ 
factured articles, appear to have been the chief fea¬ 
tures. 
Ohio. —The Show at Sandusky appears to have been 
a great success, though we are still lacking very defi¬ 
nite accounts, and have seen no comparison of it with 
the very successful Cleveland Exhibition two years 
ago. The turn-out of horses and cattle is spoken of in 
despatches as “ superior in every respect” to that of 
any previous show. The entries of live stock were 
1,054, and the miscellaneous 1,617—numbers unusual¬ 
ly large in all departments, except fruits and flowers 
'—those of horses exceeding by 50 any previous year. 
The Show opened Tuesday with fine weather, which 
continued Wednesday, when receipts were reported at 
$8,000. Thursday it is said that about 25,000 persons 
visited the grounds, and Friday, says the telegraph,— 
“ the fourth and last day, the weather was magnificent 
and the attendance large. Altogether the Fair has 
been the most successful ever held in the west, and the 
display of stock of all classes was better than ever be¬ 
fore exhibited.” 
The Springfield Horse Show and the Pomological 
Convention at New-York, are elsewhere noticed. We 
have no data with reference to the Illinois Fair which 
took place at Centralia, or the North-Western Vir¬ 
ginia, which occurred at Wheeling. We may add a 
word, however, as to the Show which took place week 
before last at St. Louis. 
Missouri. —No little exertion was made to render 
this year’s Exhibition (the third) of the St. Louis Ag. 
and Mech. Association, a most successful and attractive 
one. Mrs. Gage writes to the 0. Farmer that “ the 
crowds of people at the Fair were quite equal, but the 
display of stock, vegetables, machinery, farming im¬ 
plements, fowls and sheep, decidedly inferior to last 
year.” Emery’s Journal says that with the exception 
of D. Landreth’s exhibition of implements, seeds, &e. 
the show in these respects was very small indeed. The 
Prairie Farmer gives it as “the general opinion of 
visitors, that there was a better display of people than 
of stock. The mechanical department was full.” The 
turn-out of horses seems to have been pretty large, 
and we notice that in Short-Horn bulls the first pre¬ 
mium was awarded to “ Crusader,” owned by R. G, 
Corwin of Lebanon, Ohio. 
Farm Cisterns. 
Our readers have heard of the man who was from 
year to year annoyed with a leaky roof—because, when 
the weather was fair it did not need repairing, and 
when raining, he could not mend it. In the same way, 
some farmers neglect to make provision for watering 
domestic animals, until drought actually arrives, and 
then they cannot. We well know one, who during the 
present dry weather, drives his cattle a mile to water, 
at the same time that he has roof enough on his large 
barn to give them all the drink they need, if a cistern 
of proper capacity had been prepared to retain it. The 
barn cost a thousand dollars ; the cistern might be 
built for fifty—yet every animal of his large herd has 
to travel nearly thirty miles each week for necessary 
drink. He might construct a cistern now, but it will 
be another year before he can derive benefit from it, 
and so he puts off the labor. It is hardly necessary to 
