280 THE CULTIVATOR. Sept 
EXHIBITION OF THE N. Y. STATE AG-. SOCIETY. 
We presume it is recollected by most of our readers, 
that the New-York State Agricultural Society holds its 
annual Show and Fair at Auburn, on the 15th, 16th, and 
17th of the present month. The trial of implements 
will take place on the first day of the exhibition; the 
principal show of animals and articles on the second 
day; and the address with the report of various com¬ 
mittees, will be made on the third day. 
From the very favorable season, and the bountiful 
crops of almost every description, which have re¬ 
warded the husbandman’s labors, we look for an unusu¬ 
ally extensive and rich exhibition. In stock, especial¬ 
ly, we shall be much disappointed if there is not a 
wider competition in every class, than there was last 
year. The pastures have afforded abundant feed, and 
cattle and sheep cannot fail to be in fine condition; so 
that their owneis can not urge the excuse that they are 
kept at home because they are not in “high order 
enough ” to show. We look, therefore, for a general 
turn-out. 
Besides the advantage of competing for the premiums, 
a strong inducement to take stock to the show is pre¬ 
sented in the opportunity it affords of making sales or 
exchanges. This was carried on last year to a great 
extent, and we have no doubt with much advantage 
both to purchasers and sellers. In fact we believe this 
may be made one of the most important features con¬ 
nected with these exhibitions. We hope, therefore, 
that the principle of Fairs may be more generally 
entered into, and become fully established. Let it but 
be generally known that on these occasions large num¬ 
bers of the best horses, cattle, sheep, swine, poultry, 
implements of husbandry, &c., &c., will be brought 
for the purpose of sale, and thousands from all parts of 
the country will attend with the view of purchasing. 
Auburn, it will be recollected, is in the midst of a 
great fruit region. Perhaps no part of the state has 
made a more rapid improvement in all branches of hor¬ 
ticulture, within the last fifteen years; and we expect 
that the amateurs of Western New-York will vie with 
each other in presenting such a display of the pro¬ 
ducts of their gardens and orchards, as cannot fail 
