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Sept. 
THE CULTIVATOR. 
were Mr. Jonas Webb's ! Mr, Fisher Hobbs, who ap¬ 
peared for the first time as a Southdown breeder, took 
the first prize for rams of any age. The show of pigs 
was not so varied as usual. It will be seen, however, 
that Mr. Hobb’s improved Essex maintained their 
character, carrying off'first prizes in two classes. Mr. 
Hobbs was very successful, carrying off more prizes 
than any other single individual. The implements 
were most numerous and varied, manifesting a con¬ 
tinuous improvement in the manufacture.” 
State Fair. 
There is every appearance that the approaching 
State Fair at Syracuse, will be fully attended, not only 
by our own farmers and citizens generally, but by num¬ 
bers from the neighboring states and from the Canadas. 
It will have been seen by the doings of the Executive 
Committee, published in this number and in our last, 
that the most ample arrangements have been made for 
the exhibition. The particulars in regard to the pre¬ 
mises, &c., can be learned from the printed catalogue 
of the society, to be had on application to the Secretary, 
B. P. Johnson, Esq., or they can be obtained at the 
business office of the society at Syracuse, after the first 
of September. The following regulations of the society 
should be observed: 
The Executive Committee will meet on the show- 
ground on Tuesday the 11th at 12 o’clock, and the 
judges are requested to be present, as the vacancies 
will then be filled. This day (11th) will be devoted 
to examinations by the judges; and the grounds will 
aot be opened, except to officers, guests, delegates, 
members, judges, and exhibitors. On Wednesday, 
12th, the grounds will be open to the public, and con¬ 
tinue open for two days. 
The Annual Address by Prof. J. F. W. Johnston, 
of Durham, England, will be delivered on Thursday, 
13th, at 3 o’clock P. M., on the show-ground. 
Tickets will be furnished by the rail-road companies 
at half the usual rates, enabling visitors to return any 
time during the week of the show, and animals and 
articles for exhibition will be transported free, as 
heretofore. 
Exhibitors of stock should give at least one week’s 
notice of their intention to send stock, to the person at 
the station from which the stock is to be sent, viz: to 
E. Foster, Jr., rail-road office, Albany; L. R. Sargeant, 
Supt. Troy and Whitehall roads; G. W. Young, Supt. 
Schenectady; T. M. Francis, rail-road office, Utica; 
W. D. Stevens, Oswego; J. B. Dill, Auburn; John 
Fargo, Geneva; Joseph Alleyn, Rochester; M. Beach, 
Batavia; Win. Wallace, Supt. Attica and Buffalo rail¬ 
road; P. N. Rust and J. B. Burnet, Syracuse. 
Articles designed for exhibition should be carefully 
labelled with the owners’ name and residence, and may r 
be directed either to P. N. Rust, J. B. Burnet, Roger 
Billings, or B. F. Colvin, Syracuse. 
Entries may be made at the office of the secretary at 
Rust’s Hotel, Syracuse, and fees of membership paid 
after the first of September. On Monday the 10th of 
September, the business office will be opened on the 
show-grounds, and all entries must then be made there. 
Sales of Stock will take place on Thursday the 
13th. It is expected that there will be offered for sale, 
Short Horn cattle from the herd of Col. J. M. Sher¬ 
wood and others; Herefords from Messrs. Bingham, of 
Vermont; Devons from Mr. Waslibon, of Otsego county, 
end Mr. Blakeslee, of Connecticut; sheep from Messrs. 
Bingham, Blakeslee, Sherwood, and others; horses 
from Mr. Burnet and Mr. Thompson, of Syracuse, Mr. 
Blodgett and others, of Vermont. For particulars in 
regard to the stock offered by Messrs. Bingham, 
Blakeslee, and Blodgett, see their respective adver¬ 
tisements in this, and the last number of The Cultu 
vator. There will be other stock, especially horses, 
from out of the state, which will be offered ei'her for 
sale or exhibition. Mr. Wier, of Walpole, N. H., will 
be on the ground with the old Gifford Morgan Stallion. 
Mr. L. D. Harlow, of Hartland, Vt., will also be pre¬ 
sent with the Morgan horse Grey-Hawk. 
We are authorised to state that articles, or stock 
intended for exhibition from Canada, will be admitted 
by way of Oswego free of duty. 
The North American Pomological Convention will 
open its session on Friday morning, September 14th, at 
Rust’s Hotel. 
Prize Sheep. 
Eds. Cultivator — I noticed, lately, a communi¬ 
cation on the subject of Cotswold sheep, from a gentle¬ 
man in Virginia, in which he says he imports sheep 
from England “ every two years, and sometimes every 
year,” when he “ can get sheep that have taken the 
Queen’s or Royal prizes.” That, he considers the 
“ severest ordeal for sheep to go through.” His orders, 
he says, “ are not limited in price,” as he is “ deter¬ 
mined to import none but the best,” and as the u cost 
and risk are great,” he “ requires the Queen’s prize 
sheep only.” 
Will this gentleman be so good as to inform the 
public what this “ Queen’s prize ” is? By what asso- 
ciation, or authority is it offered? J. P. R. Montreal , 
C. E., August, 1849. 
Crops in Virginia. 
The wheat harvest is ended; and with us, as well as 
other portions of the state which I have heard from, 
more than an average yield in quantity and quality 
may be expected—although it was much later than 
usual; increasing the chances thereby, in favor of its 
taking the rust, to which our late wheat is much subject. 
The growing crop, and vegetation generally, owing 
to the cool and dry weather during the spring, is some 
two weeks later than common Indian corn is, the great 
favorite with our Virginia farmers and planters, and the 
tenacity with which they adhere to their opinions con¬ 
cerning it, and the exertion brought into requisition in 
cultivating it on their worn out lands, would lead any 
one to infer that it was rather an improver than an 
exhauster of soil. The present crop looks promising— 
though late; as the season has been quite unfavorable 
for it, having had great extremes of weather the whole 
season; and interrupted also by the clover worm, 
(supposed to be) an insect which preys upon the roots 
of the corn. The oat crop will not be an average one, 
and so in regard to the hay crop, though having had 
fine seasons lately, the second mowing may be better. 
J. A. Long Hill, Amherst county , Va., July 20/A, 
The Wayne County, Pa., Agricultural Society 
will hold its annual show at Honesdale, Oct. 7. P. 
Bushnell, Esq., will please accept our thanks for the 
list of premiums, &c. 
Hessian Fly and Good Wheat.— J. Oglesby, in 
the Pennsylvania : Cultivator , states that he had a nine 
acre lot, from which he obtained 60 bushels of oats, the 
rest of the crop being briars, sumac, sassefras, Canada 
thistles, poke, elder, and nearly all other kinds of 
weeds. When the oats were harvested, the bushes 
were grubbed, and the weeds cut with a scythe. 
When peiifectly dry, they were burned in a strong 
wind, as they lay over the ground. The nine acres 
then received 700 bushels of lime—the land was well 
plowed—and the next year it yielded 390 bushels of 
good wheat, untouched by the Hessian Fly, the fir<S 
having destroyed them. 
