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make them perform all that he desired, by the mo¬ 
tion of the whip-placing one on the right side and 
the other on the left, and then changing them—in 
short, in or out of the yoke they were so trained as 
to be an object of universal attention and admira¬ 
tion. I heard a remark from a group of gentlemen 
standing by and witnessing the wonderful perform¬ 
ance of the boy—“This is the way, after all, to 
bring up boys. This little fellow will make a man 
that will take care of himself.” There can be no 
doubt of this, I think. If he lives, Mr. Bailey’s 
good name will be well honored by his son. 
The sheep, with the exception of the Long-wools 
by Mr. Reybold of Delaware, and Col. Ware of 
Virginia,were not entitled to much notice. Mr. Rey- 
bold’s New Oxfordshires were the pride of the show. 
They are exceedingly fine sheep of their class, and 
cannot, I imagine, be excelled in this country . One 
of his fat wethers was slaughtered during the Fair, 
and weighed 206 lbs., very closely dressed. He re¬ 
ceived for him $100 on a standing offer of tenyears. 
from Mr. Turner, a Baltimore butcher, and late can¬ 
didate for mayor of that city. This mutton was pur¬ 
chased by the proprietor of the Eutaw House, who 
is a very liberal and enterprizing gentleman, and 
it will, in due time, grace the table of that famed 
hotel. About ten years since, Mr. Turner offered 
to give $100 to any breeder who would produce a 
fat sheep that would weigh 50 lbs. to the quarter, 
when dressed. On the arrival of Clayton B. Rey¬ 
bold, with his sheep, a day or two previous to the 
Fair, Mr. Turner saw them, and said to him that 
he was prepared to give the $100 for the fat wether, 
as he was satisfied he would weigh 200 lbs. The 
wether was slaughtered and dressed by Mr. Turner, 
and although in dressing him, the skin was taken off 
down to the very hoofs, much closer than is usual, 
the weight of the carcass was 206 lbs. 
The show of horses was larger than last year, and 
very fair. The Morgan stallion, Black-Hawk, Jr., 
(a colt by the Vermont Black-Hawk) owned by Col. 
Carroll, attracted much notice. His figure and ac¬ 
tion are very superior, and he will add, I doubt not, 
much to the character of the horses of the State. 
There were several other horses that were good, 
and some very fine colts. 
The swine were very fair, some exceedingly good; 
but not, I think, taken together, equal to last year. 
The Dutchess county pigs of Mr. Wilkinson, of the 
Mt. Airy Institute, were very fine. The exhibition 
of poultry was very extensive, embracing almost 
all the noted varieties, which have turned the heads 
of our Boston gentry. Some Capons were of such 
mammoth size, that they would doubtless command 
for breeders , (as some of like description have, I un¬ 
derstand, at the East) $30 or more per pair ! 
In the implement department the show was of 
great merit. E. Whitman’s exhibition was one of 
the largest I have ever seen, and Sinclair Sc Co.’s 
was nearly equal, and two or three others very fine. 
In fact nearly, if not quite, one-fourth of the ground 
was occupied by their implements. Very many of 
the articles were of the best of our northern manu¬ 
facture, and I was pleased to learn that many sales 
of improved implements took place. 
The plowing match was a very interesting scene: 
Twenty-three plowmen entered the arena, and thou¬ 
sands of spectators were in attendance. The 
ground was not such as to fully exhibit either the 
skill of the plowmen, or the perfection of the plow 
—still the work was well done by many of the com¬ 
petitors. Prouty Sc Mears’ No. 5£, received the 
award for the best plowing—being one of the plows 
which received a first premium at the N. Y. trial. 
On the last day of the exhibition, an address was 
delivered by Willoughby Newton, of Virginia, a 
highly intelligent agriculturist. It was every way 
worthy of the cause and the speaker. P. A. Browne, 
Esq., of Philadelphia, gave interesting statements 
of his experiments in relation to wool, which were lis¬ 
tened to with much attention. The attention shown 
by the officers of the society to strangers who were 
present, was what might have been expected from 
the known hospitality of the gentlemen of Maryland. 
There were in attendance a large number of gentle¬ 
men from Virginia, Delaware, Pennsylvania and 
New-York. 
I have omitted to mention the show of hams. 
Twenty competitors contended for the prize, and 
the superiority of the hams exhibited, over any in 
our market, was most apparent, and I hope some 
means may be adopted to bring up ours to the stand¬ 
ard of Maryland and Virginia. 
The show of fruits, vegetables, flowers, fancy 
articles, &c., was very creditable to the society. 
On Friday evening an election of officers took 
place, when Col. Calvert was unanimously re-elect¬ 
ed president, and consented to serve. He is truly 
a valuable officer, whose services cannot well be dis¬ 
pensed with. 
From the Maryland show I proceeded to Dela¬ 
ware, and had an opportunity of examining the 
splendid farms of Maj . Reybold and Sons, and others 
in that vicinity, among which was that of the Hon. 
J. M. Clayton, who is now most successfully de¬ 
voting himself to the management of his farm, and 
I may, if time allows, give your readers some ac¬ 
count of Delaware farming, and tell them of forty 
bushels of wheat to the acre, and of more than 3000 
bushels from an 100 acres, raised by one farmer ! 
B. P. J. 
Irrigation. 
During the late exhibition of the Royal Agricultu¬ 
ral Society, a delegation ofthe officers, members and 
others, among whom was our countryman, L. G. 
Morris, Esq., of Westchester county, N. Y., visit¬ 
ed the farm of Mr. George Turner, near Exeter, 
for the purpose of examining the Water meadows be¬ 
longing to that gentleman, and which are noted for 
their productiveness. Mr. T. explained his man¬ 
agement to the company, and it was reported some¬ 
what in detail. We extract the following from the 
printed account. The remarks are worthy the at¬ 
tention of our readers:— 
The process by which boggy, or comparatively 
useless fields, are converted into verdant and luxu¬ 
riant meadows, bearing very heavy crops of hay, 
and also affording admirable pasture, is, first of all, 
thoroughly to drain the land. The land is then al¬ 
lowed to remain for two years, to consolidate. If 
it be a heavy piece of land, it will probably be 
broken up, and laid down with fresh and well-selected 
grass seeds. After one year’s grass, if the land be 
pretty well drained and seeded, in the following or 
second year from the time it is laid down, the water 
gutters are cut, and the water let in at the proper 
season. The proper season is from about Michael¬ 
mas till Lady-day j but Mr. Turner entirely objects 
to summer irrigation, as forcing the land too much, 
and as calculated to give the sheep, who then de¬ 
pasture upon it, the rot. In the hill-side meadows, 
the gutters (about two feet broad and three inches 
deep) conduct the water from a spring on the upper 
part of the hill-side, in a lateral, but oblique di¬ 
rection, with a gentle fall across the face of the hill. 
At the opposite side, but so arranged as to leave a 
