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nas not been wanting the requisite capital, the energy, 
the bone and muscle, so much as the desirable intelli¬ 
gence to give a right direction to their other powers. 
The maxim, “ knowledge is power,” is applicable in 
no case more than in that of farming.— Address of 
Moses Eames before the Jefferson county Agricultural 
Society. 
I would say to every farmer, take a good Agricul¬ 
tural Journal, read it, study it, ponder upon it, make 
yourself not only familiar with its contents, but strive 
to understand the subjects of which it treats through 
other sources. You will thus be kept acquainted w ith 
agricultural improvements, and will constantly be 
made to feel the necessity of a more thorough under¬ 
standing of your occupation. It w T ill lead to the study 
of soils, and the nature of the plants which they pro¬ 
duce ; the adaptation of different manures to each, 
the food which the various vegetable substances re¬ 
quire, and the best method of administering it, so as 
to produce health and vigor of fruit ; the means to be 
employed that the harvest may realize your anticipa¬ 
tions, the qualities of the different kinds of stock, the 
usefulness of new agricultural machines, and a variety 
of other subjects w'hich require your investigation. 
Through it you commune w'ith the leading spirits in 
your vocation. You behold what experience, un¬ 
wearied patience, and the application of powerful 
minds, have accomplished. It w’ill afford you instruc¬ 
tion in all the different departments of your business, 
and prove a valuable guide to your progress. These 
benefits will not acrue from a bare cursory perusal of 
it. If sketched over like an ordinary newspaper, for 
the purpose of amusement, and then throwm aside to 
be forgotten, it will scarcely pay the price of subscrip¬ 
tion. It should be read w'ith the interest excited, 
11 with the spirit and the understanding,” and w r ith a 
disposition to profit by its teachings.— Address of 
James M. Banks, before the Chenango county Ag¬ 
ricultural Society. 
Kindred to, and of equal importance with agricultu¬ 
ral societies, are the benefits to be derived from agri¬ 
cultural papers, for one or more of w’hich no farmer 
should fail to subscribe. By their means improved ag¬ 
ricultural implements—the making and application of 
manures—the introduction of new varieties of fruits 
and vegetables-—the most approved breeds and princi¬ 
ples of raising stock—the best rotation of crops—in 
short every species of information that is valuable to 
the farmer is spread out before him. 
I have seen in some of your fields, improved imple¬ 
ments of husbandry and labor-saving machines, your 
first idea of w’hich w T as derived from the Cultivator; 
and the construction of which you yourselves superin¬ 
tended in the w’orkshop of a neighboring mechanic. 
One of your number told me not long since, in his har¬ 
vest field, that he had derived one hundred dollars 
benefit from this paper in the two years he had taken 
it.— Address of Thos. B. Watson before the Clin¬ 
ton county Agricultural Society. 
Farmers’ Dwellings. —We need a great improve¬ 
ment in this respect—we need a distinctive Rural style 
of building —comfort and convenience combined with 
neat and simple elegance. Nothing expensive, gaudy 
or obtrusive, but graceful in form, chaste in ornament, 
w’ith quiet, neutral colors sw’eetly blending with the 
surrounding green, all breathing an air of peaceful, 
calm repose on w hich the eye may rest with pleasure. 
I would gladly enlarge upon this, did time permit. 
The house should not only be sheltered but adorned 
with trees—none more beautiful than those of our ow'n 
forests. 
A few’ choice fruit trees of various kinds, with 
grapes and smaller fruits which need but little care, 
with flowering shrubs and ornamental climbers should 
be there. None of the adornments of beauty are mojte 
graceful or attractive than fragrant and blooming vines 
around the rustic porch. And—let there be a garden 
too, it need not be a large one—not the unsightly 
patch of neglected earth sometimes so miscalled, in¬ 
tended for potatoes and cabbages, but filled with bur¬ 
dock and nettles, but a neatly arranged plat for shrubs 
and flowers, laid out with taste and kept with care— 
cultivate a taste for flow’ers, and teach your children 
to love them. In doing so, you give them new 
sources of pleasure—new’facilities for enjoyment. And 
do not deem the time they bestow upon them, lost 
time; it is wrell bestow’ed, and will yield a rich return 
in pure and simple joy, and the cheerful love of home. 
Address of T. D. Burral, before the Ontario Agri¬ 
cultural Society. 
Netu-HJork State Agricultural Society. 
The annual meeting of this Society, for 1850, will 
be held at the Capitol in this city, on Wednesday the 
16th of this month, to continue two days. The annual 
address, by the President, Hon. John A. King, will 
be delivered on the evening of the 17th; and it is ex¬ 
pected that Prof. Johnston of England, w’hom the 
Society have engaged to deliver a course of Lectures 
here during the w’inter, will deliver a lecture on Wed¬ 
nesday evening the 16th. 
In addition to the awarding of premiums on essays, 
farms, grain and root crops, butter and cheese, an ex¬ 
hibition of w inter fruits will be had at the Agricultural 
rooms. This exhibition, last year, was very superior, 
and it is hoped that an equally fine display wfill be 
made this winter. Persons who are willing to aid in 
this exhibition, are requested to have their fruit pro¬ 
perly labelled with its name, and the name and resi¬ 
dence of the exhibitor, and securely packed and direct¬ 
ed to the Secretary, Agricultural rooms, Albany, and 
sent at as early a day as practicable. 
At a meeting of the Executive Committee, on the 
13th of December, the following gentlemen were ap¬ 
pointed Judges to aw’ard the Premiums, at the winter 
meeting of the Society: 
Management of Farms —Samuel Cheever, Saratoga; 
B. B. Kirtland, Rensselaer; David Sill, Washington. 
Butter and Cheese Dairies— B. P. Johnson, Albany; 
Joseph Cary, do.; Levi T. Marshall, Oneida. 
Essays, Draining, and Agricultural Work for 
Common Schools —John Delafield, Seneca; John P. 
Beekman, Columbia; George Geddes, Onondaga. 
Butter and Cheese Exhibition —Henry Wager, O- 
neida; G. J. Barber, Cortland; Samuel Cary, Albany. 
Fruit —Herman Wendell, M. D., Albany; Lewis F. 
Allen, Erie; Sanford Howard, Albany; Henry Yail, 
Rensselaer; Charles H. Tomlinson, Schenectady. 
Field Crops. — Wheat and Rye —Alonzo Upham, 
Genesee; J. B. Burnet, Onondaga: D. S. Curtis, Co¬ 
lumbia. 
Indian Corn —Win. New’comb, Rensselaer; H. T. 
E. Foster, Seneca; James Rees, Oneida. 
Barley, Oats, Buckwheat , Peas and Beans —J. W. 
Ball, Otsego; Luther Leland, Oneida; Martin Spring¬ 
er, Rensselaer. 
Potatoes and Root Crops —Orlando Allen, Erie; C. 
D. Palmer, Waterville; John Foster, Hillsdale, Co¬ 
lumbia co. 
Corn Fodder , Flax, Hops, fyc.— Wm. Buel, Monroe; 
Benj. Enos, Madison; Amos Briggs, Rensselaer. 
For Arrangements for Pomological Exhibition —J. 
McD. McIntyre, Albany; H. Wendell, M. D., do.; 
James Wilson, do. 
Committee on Treasurer's Accounts —Geo. Vail, 
John A. King, Pres’t, and B. P. Johnson, Sec’y. 
