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THE CULTIVATOR. 
Sept. 
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ed that it was not all customers that wanted these fat 
Iambs. As to buying and working fat rams, he must con¬ 
fess he had a great objection to these fat animals. He was 
fond of examining and admiring the different points of an 
animal, and in an anatomical point of view, it was impos¬ 
sible to say whether these points were good or symmetri¬ 
cal if the animal was fat. He believed that serious evils 
and losses accrued from persons not considering what 
they were about, when they gave great prices for fat 
rams. Rams might be compared to stallions, made fat 
for the purpose of disguise, and in order to deceive those 
who were not judges of the proper points of an animal. 
A flock-master should first consider what were the pro¬ 
per characters for sheep, and then select ewes having 
such characters, and endeavor to find rams to match; 
this was, in his opinion, far better than to make wide 
crosses. 
New-York State Ag« Society. 
From the report of the proceedings at the meeting 
of the Executive Committee, on the 9th of August, we 
give the following. 
The Secretary reported, that he had been to S 3 n-acuse 
since the last meeting of the Board, and that in connex¬ 
ion with CoL Sherwood, Mr. Rust and Mr. Burnet, of 
the Executive Committee, the grounds were marked 
out, and the erections necessary lor the show designa¬ 
ted. The contractor, Col, Voorhies, with an efficient 
force was at work preparing the erections, and that 
every thing required for the Society would be in readi¬ 
ness previous to the time of meeting. The citizens of 
Syracuse were preparing for the reception of visitors, 
and every accommodation that the city could supply, 
both public and private, will be open for the entertain¬ 
ment of those in attendance at the show. The Horti¬ 
cultural Society of Syracuse are making arrangements 
for the suitable accommodation of the i North Ameri¬ 
can Bornological Convention.’ 
The assurances received from all parts of our own 
country, as well as the Canadas, are such as to render 
it probable that the coming exhibition will be one of the 
most extensive ever held by the Society. 
The Secretary also reported that he had called upon 
the Hon. Henry Clay, of Kentucky, (now at Saratoga 
Springs,') and presented to him an invitation on behalf | 
of the Executive Committee, to attend the annual meet- i 
ing at Syracuse. Mr. Clay expressed himself highly I 
gratified at the invitation, and said, that it would give 
him the greatest pleasure to be present at the meeting 
and witness, as he had long desired to do, the improve¬ 
ments of the farmers of New-York, as well as to meet 
the farmers themselves. He feared, however, that he 
might not be able to enjoy that pleasure, as his arrange¬ 
ments were such as to render a return to Kentucky in 
the forepart, of September necessary. He desired to 
have communicated to the Executive Committee and to 
the Society, his best regards for their polite invitation, 
and an assurance that should it be at all consistent with 
his engagements, he would avail himself of the oppor¬ 
tunity, to attend the show. 
The Secretary reported that a letter had been receiv¬ 
ed from Prof. Johnston, that he should sail from Liver¬ 
pool in the steamer of the 28lh July, land at Halifax, 
and spend a short time in New Brunswick, where he 
had an engagement; and would arrive here in time for 
our annual show, and would spend in this State and vi¬ 
cinity the month of September. (Prof. J. arrived in the 
America.) 
The Secretary presented the Transactions for 1848, 
which have been received, and are ready for distribu¬ 
tion. 
A letter from G. Elfentrez, Director of the Imperial 
Botanic Garden, at St. Petersburg!), Russia, acknowled¬ 
ging receipt of Transactions of the Society, with the 
thanks of the Directors, and also that the publications 
of the Imperial Society would be duly transmitted in 
exchange. 
E, & T. Fairbanks & Co., St. Johnsbury, Yt. A 
platform scale No. 10, arid druggists scale for the Mu¬ 
seum of the Society, of very superior finish and work¬ 
manship. 
C. D. Mynderse, Seneca Falls, writes. We had a 
beautiful time for haying and harvesting. We have se¬ 
cured a larger crop of hay than usual this season. 
Wheat is more or less injured by the wheat fly, some 
late pieces very much, otherwise wheat bids fair to 
yield a heavy return. The long continued drought, 
which has continued about six weeks, with but one or 
two slight showers, I am fearful will prove ruinous to 
the corn and potato crops as well as clover. 
Geo. Warren, Albany. Kendall’s Thermometer, for 
Museum, &c. 
Hon. Ashbury Dickens, Secretary U. S. Senate. 
Third report of the Smithsonian Institution, made to the 
Senate of the United States. 
Fine sample of the “Clump Spring Wheat,” from J. 
McD. McIntyre’s farm near this city. The heads are 
short, but remarkably well filled, and the grain very 
large. 
Mr. Wilbur of Auburn, fine samples of winter Bar- 
lev’, raised by him the present season. 
Hon. Anson Miller, of Rockford, Northern Illinois, 
informs us in relation to the wheat crop, that the wheat 
has beqn greatly injured by the rust. The winter 
wheat, especially, it is thought, will be nearly if not 
entirely destroyed. The malady, as is always the ease, 
prevails more generally on the low, rich, sandy loam 
soils. We have heard no general complaint of this kind 
as yet, from the Pekatonic country, which has a strong 
clayey subsoil, and where winter wheat always succeeds 
if any where. 
From J. Hall Maxwell, Secretary Highland Agricul¬ 
tural Society of Scotland. Proceedings of the half 
yearly meeting of the society. 
Edward Bullen, Esq , Secretary Royal Agricultural 
Improvement Society of Ireland, 1 vol. Quarterly 
Journal of the Society for 1849; Premium List and 
Regulations of the Society, for their Annual Cattle 
Show for 1849; and Reports of the Practical Instruct¬ 
ors in Husbandry in different districts in Ireland. 
Mr. B. writes:—“'It is my painful duty also, to in¬ 
form you that affairs look more gloomy in this country 
every day. The prostration of all classes is increasing, 
and no one can see the least signs of reaction or im¬ 
provement. With a dense and pauper population of 
eight millions, circumscribed within the limits of an is¬ 
land not larger than some of your middle-sized States, 
you may easily conceive the effects arising from the sud¬ 
den as well as repeated destruction of its staple article 
of food. The consequence is, that the people have 
sunk under the pressure, and are directing themselves 
in one vast tide of emigration, to the shores of your 
more favored country, and projects are now on foot for 
carrying out the system on a much more systematic and 
extensive scale, than ever before was contemplated. I 
am aware that this great influx of persons, many of 
them in distressed and burthensome circumstances, must 
be a great source of inconvenience to tho.se localities 
in which they first land, previous’to locating themselves 
in the more remote districts; but that is a slight penal¬ 
ty for you to pay, considering the privations which have 
afflicted the countries of the old world, and this unfor¬ 
tunate one in particular, these few years back. I trust, 
therefore, that my poor countrymen will he received by 
yours with consideration, and that adequate encourage¬ 
ment will be made for pushing them on into the centre 
of the country, where, instead of being burthens and 
outcasts in their native land as at present, they may be. 
