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TIIE CULTIVATOR. 
The State Fair at New-York. 
The experiment of holding at New-York City r a ga¬ 
thering in which Farmers are almost the only ones es¬ 
pecially interested, has now been tried. The weather 
was against its success. For nearly two whole days, 
and those, Tuesday and Wednesday, on which depend¬ 
ed entirely a punctual arrangement of articles and a 
brilliant opening of the exhibition, the rain was almost 
constantly falling. If at any time there was a clear¬ 
ing up among the clouds, it was only to be followed, 
like that of the housekeeper in the story, by greater 
disorder than before. The experiment was not there¬ 
fore made under favorable circumstances; and yet, we 
doubt very much whether, even under the most favora¬ 
ble. the result would have been materially different. 
New-York is neither given to patronizing shows of 
solid merit, which are too dry for its taste, nor are far¬ 
mers generally willing to run the risk of a visit there 
themselves. 
And still, up to the time of opening, never was pro¬ 
mise fairer of success. The hearty co-operation of the 
American Institute, and the New-York Horticultural 
Society, which had been promised, was depended upon, 
to some extent at least, to insure a general turn-out. 
The co-operation of the first, we heard rather a satiri¬ 
cal bystander remark, consisted in taking in members 
down town at $1 each, and admitting them to the Fair, 
under the general agreement that Institute members 
should have free tickets—that of the latter, in nearly 
the word£- of another gentleman whose temper may 
have been tried by the dampness, in bringing about 
the exhibition of rather less vegetables than could be 
accommodated in a peck measure. 
Nevertheless the show was well worthy in many par¬ 
ticulars, of the fullest attendance. The officers of the 
Society deserve great credit for the arrangement of 
the grounds, and several of the exhibitors of stock, for 
the expense and trouble to which they went in contri¬ 
buting so largely to the attractions of the fair. Indeed 
we think the department of .cattle was even better than 
any previous year, while that of Horses embraced some 
very good animals, as well as not only the largest, but 
decidedly the best collection of mules we have ever 
seen. Sheep and Swine were superior in quality and 
good in numbers. The Poultry sheds were not as 
crowded as perhaps they have sometimes been, but 
they included stock of very general excellence. Fruits 
and Flowers were about an average display—the me¬ 
chanical department was quite fully represented, the 
domestic rather thinly, and the plowing match was, we 
understood, a spirited and well contested trial. 
Before we go on to speak more particularly of the 
exhibitors and exhibited, it is proper to mention the 
peculiar, merits in the arrangement of the grounds. 
Everything was embraced in about twenty acres, with¬ 
out being too much crowded for comfort or effect. 
The covered pens and stalls, well enclosed, but conve¬ 
nient for the examination of their contents, proved 
absolute necessities amid the storm, as they would have 
been essential comforts in the sun. The shed for Poul¬ 
try was well adapted for its purpose. A staging to 
overlook the track for horses, though very far inferior 
in size and appearance to that we saw at the recent 
Vermont Fair, would have been a great addition to 
the conveniences of the grounds, if people had not 
been so displeased because a little too much was charg¬ 
ed for a seat, that they would not generally embrace 
its offered opportunities. The buildings were hardly 
as well put up as has sometimes been the case, but 
seemed to answer every purpose. The tents were well 
adapted in size, location and interior accommodations 
to their several purposes; and the arrangements for 
supplying their dinners to such gentlemen as were pre¬ 
cluded by the Society’s business, from going elsewhere 
for them, were, Both in arrangement, and in the ampli¬ 
tude and character of their supplies and attendants, 
considerably ahead of former years. Carriages were 
not admitted on the grounds,—a great improvement 
so far as the comfort of exhibitors and pedestrians 
was concerned, though perhaps somewhat decreasing 
the receipts of the Treasurer from city people who 
had teams of the.ir own. 
The Stock Departments comprised some of the 
finest animals ever exhibited in this country. As there 
was a considerable number of exhibitors, who had more 
or less of all the different kinds, and whose enterprize 
in importing, and care in breeding the purest and most 
serviceable sorts, have given them an established re¬ 
putation, as well as been of no small service to our far¬ 
mers generalty, we have thought it better to mention 
the more meritorious entries of each of these in the 
different classes, cattle, sheep, swine, &c., by them¬ 
selves. We shall thus present more concisely and in a 
more convenient form for comparison, the relative turn 
outs of the chief exhibitors, and avoid the constant re¬ 
petition of their names in the different departments. 
In doing so we cannot hope to have escaped omissions, 
and can only assure our readers of an intent to avoid 
anything like invidiousness. Not only is it almost im¬ 
possible, where there are so many noticeable animals, 
to escape some little confusion in one’s notes, but the 
difficulty of ascertaining the ownership of some, and 
the want of opportunity for examining all' as thorough¬ 
ly as we could have wished, has thrown many obstacles 
to entire correctness, in our way. The fewer important 
errors our exhibiting friends find at our door, the better 
we shall be pleased. 
Lewis (I. Morris, Esq., Expresident of the Society, 
was one of the very largest in contributing to the fine 
show of last week. His importations, which are yet 
going on all the time, have comprised and are now in¬ 
cluding some of the highest bred and highest priced ani¬ 
mals England has ever allowed to cross the water. 
And it is not improper to remark here, that the English 
breeders are now finding among the enterprizing far¬ 
mers and associations in this country the very best 
markets for their animals. Should the best animals 
which the breeders of New-York, Ohio, Kentucky, and 
other states in the vicinity of each, could exhibit, be 
present, as we trust they may, at the National Show 
at Springfield, (Ohio.) a fortnight hence, we very much 
doubt whether England herself could conveniently raise 
in all respects a superior show. This is not said >n a 
spirit of bravado. Every thinking agriculturist who has 
watched our importations during the last ten or fifteen 
years will acknowledge its correctness. In fact many 
of our rich men have gone into the purchasing of stock 
at the best foreign markets, with the same no«-matter- 
for-the-price spirit which marks others of their number 
in other ways. Mr. Morris has .not suffered this spi¬ 
rit to excite him beyond a proper regard for substantial 
merits, as well as superlative prices, and those addi¬ 
tions which he and others of like character, have made 
to our country’s grazing interests deserve warm com¬ 
mendation. 
The Cattle shown by Mr. M. consist of Short Horns 
and Devons. The former were about 16 in number, 
eight of which were imported animals, and of these 
last five, partly owned by N. J Becar, Esq. who has 
long been associated with Mr. M. in making importa¬ 
tions, Balco and Romeo, the first bred by Thos. Bates 
and calved in Feb. 1849, and the latter bred by the 
Marquis of Exeter and calved in April 1850, were very 
superior Short Horn Bulls, and attracted perhaps more 
attention than any other animals present. Their 
symmetry of form and neatness of limb was such as 
we have sometimes seen in portraits of prize animals, 
but have always heard sneered at by those who “ knew 
any thing about cattle ” as impossible to exist, fFK ~ 
