THE CULTIVATOR 
often thrown aside, but this is for two reasons. One is, 
that in this labor-saving country, every one endeavors 
to abridge his work as much as possible, and often more 
than is profitable, as in this instance. Straw, with some 
hay chopped up together, with a slight addition of meal 
or shorts, saves hot only in food, but keeps animals in fine 
condition, if the other requisites of thrift are preserved. 
These other requisites are, regular food, cleanliness, 
fresh air, shelter, water, and all the other ingredients 
of comfort. Another reason of straw cutters being 
thown aside is the too frequent use of those only for 
corn-stalks that cut an inch or more long, instead of 
only a fourth of an inch. When the stalks become 
quite dry, cattle have a dislike to eat them, even when 
cut short; which may be avoided by filling a hogshead 
with the chopped materials, and pouring hot water 
over them from a Mott’s furnace, or other heater, and 
keeping in the steam until they become well soaked, by 
means of a tight cover. The addition of a little meal, 
well mixed with them, will make them palatable. 
All hardy fruit trees, and particularly apple, may 
be transplanted with great advantage in autumn— 
banking up the earth in the form of a small mound 
about them to stiffen them against the wind, if they 
are of moderate size; and staking them if large. 
Other young trees should be similarly embanked to ex¬ 
clude mice—the most perfect method. Grapes may be 
pruned and grafts cut; and manure may be now ap¬ 
plied to trees better than at any other season of the 
year, as it will become well soaked into the ground by 
the commencement of growing, 
A general supervision should be kept of the premises, 
and preparations made for winter. Leaky roofs should 
be repaired ; loose boards on barns and fences nailed 
fast; sagging gates righted ; broken windows furnished 
with glass ; stables made secure against cold currents; 
stove pipes guarded from the danger of fire ; chimneys 
cleaned of soot ; cellars protected from the effects oj 
decayed vegetables ; and a general and particular vi¬ 
gilance pursued in relation to the care and management 
of the premises, preparatory to the arrangements for 
another year. 
The Connecticut State Fair. 
The State Agricultural Society of Connecticut held 
their first Fair at New Haven last week. As the first, 
it was very successful; and indeed in many particulars 
it would have doi e honor to years of experience in 
Fair arrangements and direction. The grounds were 
easy of access, the city never so full of people, nor the 
people ever more orderly or more generally satisfied. 
The weather, which was fine on Tuesday and Wednes¬ 
day, threatened a little Thursday, which may have 
somewhat lessened even the large attendance on that 
day. This was variously estimated,—the lowest and 
we think the most corrept calculation, ranking it, when 
the most were present, at 15,000. The exhibition of 
Working Cattle was of course the main point in a State 
which gives so much attention to this important par¬ 
ticular in farm economy. The grounds contained 
about 25 acres. A building now nearly completed for 
an Orphan Asylum, was situated in the northern part, 
and well fitted up for the show of Domestic Manufac¬ 
tures. The track ran around most of the other builds 
ings, while the stalls and pens were ranged about the 
sides. This track, too, was a very fine one,—a half- 
mile in length and prepared with the utmost care. The 
tents—the same, we were told, that were recently used 
at Philadelphia—were also commodious in situation 
and fitting up. 
Entries of Cattle were made by about 218 indi¬ 
viduals. Devons and crosses with them, predominated 
both in numbers and excellence. Among the exhibi¬ 
tors of pure animals of this breed, imported and home 
bred, Messrs. S. & L. IIurlbut, of Winchester, deserve 
principal mention. They have each spent nearly a 
life-time in breeding good and serviceable cattle both 
for their own dairy purposes and for sale. Out of a 
herd of about 75 they were compelled by want of ac¬ 
commodations on the part of the railroads, to bring 
only 16 for exhibition. And we may take occasion to 
say here, that the Connecticut R. R. companies would 
have been wiser, both as regarded their own interests 
at the time, as influencing attendance on future oc¬ 
casions of the kind, and indeed even the ordinary 
travel on their roads, if they had taken a little more 
pains to make respectable provision for transporting 
articles for exhibition and the people themselves. It 
was a general complaint that many were prevented 
from attending on this account, and we can speak from 
our own knowledge of trains having been detained to 
almost double their table time by want of locomotive 
power. 
The best of the aged animals shown by the Messrs. 
H. was by far their imported bull, “ Albert.” His me¬ 
rits, especially as regards breadth of back and chest, 
were good. Ilis progeny were all strongly marked with 
the same points, and two yearling bulls among them 
deserve particular commendation. It is proper to state 
that “ Winchester,” Mr. Deforest’s 1st prize 2 year old 
Devon bull at the recent New-York fair, and Mr. Stew¬ 
ard’s “ Empire,’ which took the 2nd prize in the same 
class, were both front the stock of the Messrs. H. Mr. 
J M. Blakeslee. of Watertown, was another Devon 
exhibitor. His cattle were for a long time among the 
most successful at the shows of the Am. Institute, and 
his show, which consisted of 30 head, was marked by 
very general excellence. Mr. B. has also 36 head now 
attending the fairs of Virginia and other southern 
states. Among other exhibitors of this breed, were 
Messsrs. E. T. Linsley, West Meriden ; F. W. Cowles, 
Farmington ; S. Griswold, Torringford; and Messrs. 
Phelps & Cook, from Litchfield Co. 
Other breeds present were not so noticeable. Rob¬ 
bins Battell of Norfolk, exhibited Ayrshires ; J. T. 
Norton, his imported Alderneys ; and T. S. Gold, West 
Cornwall, and E. B. Bishop, New Haven, Durhams of 
very fair quality. 
Among the Working Cattle , foremost in attracting 
public attention, was the Portland team, numbering 
22 yoke. We understand the heaviest pair weighed 
5120 lbs., and were owned by Jos. Hall. There may, 
however, have been heavier ones among them. Mr. N. 
B. Smith, of Woodbury, among whose cattle we no¬ 
ticed a good pair of 2 year old Devon steers, and Mr. 
Willis Smith of Torringford, were among other exhibi¬ 
tors. We do not wish to offer any criticism where all 
were so nearly on a par. Suffice it to say that we 
have never seen, and we think there has never been in 
this country, a show of oxen more superior in them¬ 
selves and in their training. 
Horses were present in goodly numbers, though 
containing few specimens of more than ordinary me¬ 
rit. Among exhibitors we notice R. Battell, Norfolk, 
who showed 3 stallions of the Morgan blood, one of 
which was sired by Black Hawk, and a four year old 
mare with yearling colt; Enoch Coe, Middletown, for 
a four year old Morgan Stallion; S. and L. Hurlbut, 
