THE CULTIVATOR. 
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SANFORD’S STRAW CUTTER—(Fig. 102.) 
Luther Tucker, Esq.—The block accompanying this, represents a machine for cutting hay, straw and stalks, 
patented by Mr. Sanford of Connecticut. Judging from its simplicity, and the ready sale with which the machine 
has met, it is admirably calculated to meet the wants of farmers. It consists, as will be seen by reference to the 
engraving, of two cylinders, armed with knives, revolving together in a cast iron frame, by means of cogs. This 
iron frame is firmly bolted to the wooden frame and feeding box by means of two screw bolts. It is propelled by 
a handle fastened to the driving wheel. For durability and ease of performance, it is said to equal any other ma¬ 
chine. Mr. Sanford sells them, made of good castings and wrought knives, for $15. They can be examined at the 
Agricultural Ware House of Henry Warren, River-street, Troy. A Subscriber. 
THE LATE STATE FAIR. 
A friend, who thinks that we did not do justice, in our 
account of the State Fair at Poughkeepsie, to the Horti¬ 
cultural Exhibition, requests the insertion of the follow¬ 
ing more detailed account of Floral Hall and its con¬ 
tents : 
One of the principal attractions at the late State Fair 
at Poughkeepsie, was the Floral Hall, under the supervi¬ 
sion of Alex. Walsh, Esq. of Lansingburgh. The fol¬ 
lowing will give some idea of the arrangement. 
Festoons of evergreens were hung in various directions 
and in such good taste, that the roughness of the tempo¬ 
rary building was lost sight of, and you looked, as you 
entered, into a bower where the fresh green relieved the 
brightness of the fruits and flowers, and your senses were 
regaled by their united fragrance. Along the walls were 
arranged paintings, drawings and engravings, of animals, 
fruit and flowers. 
Its appropriate sign, over the entrance, made from the 
leaves of the evergreen, and sprinkled with flowers, was 
an index not only of the exhibition within the building, 
but of the good taste in which the arrangements were 
made. Art giving her hand to Nature, and the products 
of both so commingled as to present a beautiful whole, 
while each was represented and neither lost, though nei¬ 
ther was made pre-eminent. The place did not look like 
a well filled barn, or even a fruit shop, as such places 
sometimes do on such occasions; but attention was given 
to arrangement and effect, and to the thousands who went 
through the building, a scene was presented which de¬ 
lighted every one, in a way that mere heaps of fruits and 
bouquets of flowers alone could not do. And yet per¬ 
haps a finer display of fruits, flowers and vegetables has 
not been witnessed in this country—not.even in the Bos¬ 
ton Horticultural Exhibitions, so deservedly celebrated for 
their excellence. The peaches were of the largest size, 
most lusciously ripe and in greatvariety; plums and necta¬ 
rines of unblemished skins; pears the most delicate and the 
most hardy looking, of the deepest green and the most 
golden hues, of every possible variety—the Beurrees, the 
Bergamots, the Frederick of Wirtemburg, the St. Mi¬ 
chael, the Bartlett, the Seckle, and many others, all bear¬ 
ing unquestionable marks, without tasting, that they pos¬ 
sessed in a high degree the peculiar excellences for 
which each is remarkable. Throughout the whole col¬ 
lection nothing dazzling or glowing. That happy com¬ 
bination was produced—the triumph of Art—which cre¬ 
ates at once the sensation of the beautiful, and soothes ra¬ 
ther than excites by the exquisite taste which has placed 
every thing where neither thought or instinct detects the 
falseness of its position, and which, the longer it is be¬ 
held, the greater is the satisfaction, for strict and minute 
examination, discovering the shades of arrangement and 
coloring which give so beautiful an effect to the whole. 
One of the most prominent and interesting objects in 
this assemblage of the products of the American soil and 
brain, was a Temple dedicated to Agriculture and the 
Arts, under Mr. Walsh’s special direction, to whom the 
society is indebted for this unique ornament, consisting 
of three arches dedicated to three of the most productive 
classes of our wide spread population. 
The central arch was dedicated to Agriculture, the one 
on the right to Horticulture, and the one on the left to 
Manufactures. They are severally denominated coats ol 
arms, the new and better heraldry— better, well may we 
say, since their end and object is the happiness of man; 
while the old and blood-thirsty heraldry clearly prefig¬ 
ures its origin and aim by the devices it has chosen. We 
trust, however, that the day is not far distant when the 
heraldric device of the brawny arm and hammer will be 
greeted with becoming respect, while that of the bloody 
hand and sword will meet with merited contempt. 
The shortness of our stay and the crowd of visiters 
pressing around this Lion of the Fair, prevented the pos¬ 
sibility of our giving more than a faint impression of the 
effects it left upon our mind.* It afforded us the greatest 
pleasure however to observe in the central arch a beau¬ 
tiful engraving of the late Judge Buel, one of the early 
advocates of agricultural improvements, and an esteemed 
friend of the originator of this structure. Near this was 
to be seen specimens of wool raised by the late H. D 
