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THE CULTIVATOR. 
Fat Cattle and Fat Sheep. —Ela Merriam, Leyden; 
Lester Barker, Clinton; P. N. Rust, Syracuse. 
Stallions. —J. M. Sherwood, Auburn; Wm. Jones, 
Queens Co.; Edward Long, Cambridge. 
Mares and Colts _Anthony Van Bergen, Coxsackie; 
Willard Ives, Watertown; F. P. Bellinger, Herkimer. 
Matched Horses. —Wm. Salisbury, Leeds; Duncan Rob¬ 
inson, Fishkill; H. S. Woodruff, Auburn. 
Sheep, Class I. —W. A. S. North, Duanesburg; Robt. 
Musson, Gilbertsville; Jas. Parker, Jr., Trenton. 
Sheep, Class II. —S. Waite, Jr., Montgomery; W. H. 
Sotham, Albany; Lyman Sherwood, Auburn. 
Sheep, Class III. —Chester Buck, Lowville; Samuel 
Cheever, Stillwater; D. R. Gill, Henderson. 
Sheep, Class IV —J. P. Beekman, Kinderhook; J. M. 
Ellis, Onondaga Hill; M. Y. Tilden, New-Lebanon. 
Swine. —L. B. Lang worthy, Rochester; George Webb, 
Pamelia; Hiram Hopkins, Cortlandville. 
Poultry. —C. N. Bement, Albany; T. H. Hyatt, Roches¬ 
ter; Storrs Barrows, South Trenton. 
Vegetables —D. B. Fuller, Hyde Park; B. W. Dwight, 
Clinton; H. L. R. Sandford, Yolney. 
Plows. —Geo. Geddes, Tyler; C. C. Dennis, Auburn; 
M. L. Brainerd, Rome. 
Waggons, Harrows, Cultivators, Fanning Mills, Ma¬ 
chines for cutting corn stalks, Horse Powers and Threshing 
Machines, Drill-Barrows, and Straw Cutters. —H. S. 
Randall, Cortlandville; G. W. Patterson, Westfield; My¬ 
ron Adams, East Bloomfield. 
All other Agricultural Implements. —Pomeroy Jones, 
Lairdsville; John Williams, Jr., Salem; T. R. Hussey, 
Auburn. 
Butter. —E. W. Bateman, Venice; Z. Barton Stout, 
Richmond Hill; Elijah Rhoades, Manlius. 
Cheese _T. C. Peters, Darien; Thomas Burch, Little 
Falls; Harrison Blodgett, Denmark. 
Sugar.— O. Hungerford, Watertown; E. Mack, Itha¬ 
ca; Geo. B, Rowe, Canastota. 
Silk. —Alex. Walsh, Lansingburgli; Samuel Thomp¬ 
son, Utica; John Walsh, Albany. 
Domestic Manufactures. —Judge Conkling, Auburn; 
Roswell Randall, Cortlandville; Le Grand Cannon, Troy. 
Fruits. —J. J. Thomas, Macedon; Chas. Downing, 
Newburgh; P. Barry, Rochester. 
Flowers. —Prof. Jackson, Schenectady; Benj. Hodges, 
Buffalo; Charles Tracey, Utica. 
Plowing Match. —Lewis F. Allen, Buffalo; N. S. 
Wright, Vernon Centre; E. Marks, Tyler; Wm. Ottley, 
Oaks Corners; John Johnston, Geneva. 
Miscellaneous and Discretionary Premiums. —Thomas 
Farrington, Owego; B. N. Huntington, Rome; Joel 
Rathbone, Albany; J. J. Viele, Lansingburgh; Oliver 
Phelps, Canandaigua. 
NEW-YORK STATE AG. SOCIETY. 
The meeting of the Executive Committee of the State 
Ag. Society for August, was held at the Society’s Room 
in Albany, on the 14th—Present, 
B. P. Johnson, of Oneida, President. 
E. P. Prentice, Vice-President, Albany. 
Alexander Walsh, Rensselaer. 
Geo. Vail, Rensselaer. 
Thomas Hillhouse, Treasurer. 
Luther Tucker, Rec. Sec’y. 
Letters were read from Hon. Wm. H. Seward, Auburn; 
Hon. Luther Bradish, New-York; Hon. Josiah Quincy, 
Jr., Boston; Isaiah Townsend, Albany; James Gowen, 
Esq., Philadelphia; James S. Wadsworth, Geneseo; 
Francis Rotch, London; James Taylor, Birmingham; 
Hon. John Savage, Salem; Lewis F. Allen, Esq., Buf¬ 
falo; Paris Barber, Homer. 
The Board then proceeded to complete the list of 
Judges to award the Premiums at the next State Fair, 
a list of which is given above. 
Transportation of Stock. 
The Committee on this subject reported that arrange¬ 
ments had been made with the different Rail Road Com¬ 
panies, whose officers with their usual liberality, had 
agreed to transport free of charge, all animals and articles 
designed for exhibition at the Fair. 
They farther reported, that extra trains would be run, 
in which visitors to the Fair, will be carried for a sum 
not exceeding half the usual rates on the roads. Of their 
times of starting, notice will be given, as soon as the ar¬ 
rangements are completed. 
Splendid Sample of Wheat. 
The Recording Secretary presented the following let¬ 
ter, with the accompanying sack of wheat:— 
L. Tucker, Esq., Rec. Sec'y N. Y. S. Ag. Society: 
Sir—I send you for the State Agricultural Society, a 
sack of the wheat considered the best grown in old 
Castile, and sent me lately by a friend in the North of 
Spain. 
The Talavera wheat, already familiar to English and 
American farmers, is also a Spanish variety. It came 
originally from Estremadura, a province in the south of 
old Castile, and of a milder more uniform climate. The 
Castillian wheat, it may therefore be inferred, will prove 
a hardier species. 
I have sent to Gen. Rawson Harmon a similar sack, 
and proposed to him, should its introduction be accom¬ 
plished under his experienced and enlightened manage, 
ment, to name this variety the Aguirre wheat, after D. 
Macsimo de Aguirre, our excellent Consul at Bilboa, to 
whose good offices I am indebted for the specimens I 
have received. 
Gen. Harmon remitted me last winter, for a friend in 
France, several varieties grown under his care at Wheat- 
land. Ten kernels taken indiscriminately from these, 
weighed, 
of White Provence, (French,) 8| grains. 
Wheatland Red,. 5^ le 
Virginia May,.. 5 « 
Soul’s Red,. 5 4-10 “ 
Soul’s White,. 5 4-10“ 
Talavera,. 7 “ 
Improved White Flint,*.... 5 “ 
The <c Aguirre’* weighed,. 8^ “ 
A person as little acquainted practically with the tillage 
of wheat as the writer, would infer from the above ta¬ 
ble that a certain weight of French Provence, white, or 
“ Aguirre wheat,” would furnish a greater amount of 
flour, and less amount of bran, than an equal weight of 
either of the other varieties. 
The bread made from the wheat of old Castile, I have 
never seen surpassed in whiteness. In Spain, as you are 
perhaps aware, this universal article of consumption 
is not leavened. 
What I send is for distribution, if you think worth 
while. I will seal up four or five pounds which might 
be kept in the rooms of the Society, as a standard where¬ 
by to determine the changes the wheat may undergo by 
culture in America. Respectfully, yours. 
ISAIAH TOWNSEND. 
P. S. I have just had weighed a half-peck of the 
wheat. The weight was 8 lbs. 9 oz., avoirdupois. This 
would give 684 lbs. to the bushel. As this exceeds by 
24 lbs. the heaviest wheat (Hungarian) in Lawson’s 
Museum, (Vide his Agriculturist’s Manual, p. 14,) I 
think it wants verifying by a better balance than that I 
used, the scales of a corner grocery. I. T. 
On motion of the President, 
Resolved, That the thanks of the Society be tendered to 
Mr. Townsend for the splendid specimen of wheat ac¬ 
companying the above letter; and that the same be dis¬ 
tributed to members of the Society, with a request that 
they make trial of the same, and report the result to the 
Society. 
The Rec. Secretary presented a copy of the 9th vol. of 
the Farmer's Cabinet, from the publisher, J. Tatem, 
Esq., for which the thanks of the society were voted. 
The President w^as requesed to procure a windlass and 
dynamometer, for the trial of plows. 
The Rec. Secretary and Treasurer were directed to 
procure the necessary badges and tickets for the ensuing 
Fair. 
* These weighed respectively, after being soaked 36 hours in a 
strong solution sulphate ammonia, 11—6f—6|——6|—9 —grains 
1 1 have not soaked any of the Castilian variety. 
