854 
THE CULTIVATOR 
Nov, 
for a pair of Blacks, 16 hands high, and serviceable 
animals; Walter Booth, Jr., Meriden, for a pair of 
Bay Carriage Horses ; Capt. Foote of New Haven, for 
a team of four,—the wheel horses being a large and 
handsome pair, and the leaders a, showy span of black 
Ponies; and A. N. Hungcrford, Wolcottville, for a pair 
of 8 year old black ponies. The dog cart of Mr. Ar¬ 
thur Bronson, Greenfield Hill, with tandem team, at¬ 
tracted considerable attention.. 
Of Mules, E Bishop & Sons were the only exhibitors. 
They, showed a team of four, which we have already 
commended in our account of the New-York Fair. 
We may in connection, correct an error there, by 
which a “ very large number” of the mules shown 
were apportioned to Mr. J. L. Jackson. He had but 
four pair on the ground,—which were, however, very 
fine heavy animals, and which as we have been inform¬ 
ed, were purchased of Mr. Bishop for $1600. 
Sheep were not very largely represented. There 
were the New Oxfordshires of J. T. Andrew, and T. L. 
Hart, West Cornwall; the Silesion Merinos of Geo. 
Campbell, Westminster West, Vt ; French and Spanish 
ditto, shown by L. & A. Whiting of Torrington ; South 
Down!?, shown by Dr. T. S. Gold, of West Cornwall; 
and the imported Sheep of Bennett Peck, Woodbridge. 
Natives and Grades were tolerable in numbers and 
quality. 
Mr. Andrew’s stock included a yearling Buck which 
took the first prize both at the New-York and New 
Haven fairs, and a ewe recently imported from the 
herd of the Duke of Buccleugh. Marcus Smith, Corn¬ 
wall, and 'George Hitchcock, Washington, were also 
exhibitors of New Oxfordshires; and we were told by 
Mr. Andrew, that of $45 offered in premiums for long- 
wooled sheep at the Connecticut fair, his stock and its 
descendants, in the hands of different individuals, took 
$40. Mr. Campbell’s Silesians were first premium 
sheep at New-York, and obtained a like honor here. 
Swine. —These were very few, and included nothing 
of decided superiority. The Suffolks were predomi¬ 
nant, and among exhibitors of these, we have the 
names of P. T. Barnum, Bridgport, Henry 01 instead 
and S. E. Chapman, Hartford. Mr. Chapman’s Im¬ 
ported Sow was a good animal. We may mention here 
the “ Model Pig Pen ” of R. M. Abbe, as it was call¬ 
ed. It was in fact a model trough for their feed.— 
having a fender above, both to keep them from get¬ 
ting into it, and to be gauged in height to admit big 
or only little pigs as is wanted,—thus preventing the 
large from monopolizing all the food. We heard it 
highly recommended and should judge it a valuable 
addition to the piggery. 
The Poultry Department was not so largely rep¬ 
resented or so worthily as it might ha ve been. The 
principal exhibitors were J. G North, New Haven,whose 
fowls did not compete for premiums, as he was on the 
Examining Committee, and P. T. Barnum of Bridg¬ 
port, who took the first prize for the largest collection. 
We noticed a. beautiful pair of Ebon Game Fowls, but 
have lost our memorandum of the owner’s name. 
The tent devoted to Fruits and Flowers was neat¬ 
ly arranged. Among the exhibitors of the former were 
Hovey & Co., Boston, with their table-load of Pears; 
Solomon Porter, New Haven, who had 45 varieties of 
apples, constituting afineshow, 6of Peaches and seve¬ 
ral of Pears; Charles Robinson, who had a good as¬ 
sortment of Pears; C. B. Lines, with 46 varieties of 
the same ; C. W. Kellogg, with a splendid basket of 
Pippin apples, and Norman Kellogg with fine Green¬ 
ings. The show of Appies was excellent, that of Pears 
good. Foreign Grapes were shown by Jos Lldridge, 
Jr, Norfolk ; Jas. Craig, who had other fruits beside ; 
P. H. Ashton, Middletown, and E. E Clarke, New Ha¬ 
ven. Dr. Eli Ives showed 6 varieties of Seedling Pears, 
which appeared well, though we had no. opportunities 
to judge further. S. and L. Hurlbut exhibited aseed- 
ling apple of their own raising, and called after their 
name,—of fine appearance, ripe from Nov. to Jan., and 
ranked by Cole in the first class. Of Flowers there 
was not a large show, nor so fine a one as we bad an¬ 
ticipated. There were, however, some pretty bouquets 
and floral designs. A cornucopia of grasses, said h/con- 
tain 100 varieties, shown by A. P. Munson, attracted 
considerable attention, as did also a pomegranate tree 
contributed by Dr. E. H. Bishop. 
Of the Vegetables we may say without hazarding 
any blame for extravagant compliment, that they were 
very considerably superior to those shown at New-York. 
The assortment included about the same number of 
exceedingly bulky pumpkins and snaky cucumbers, 
but more and better of some other varieties of garden 
produce. Ira Twiss, Meriden, with several bags of 
wheat, buckwheat, and rye flour; Mr. Gilbert. Hamp¬ 
den, with barley and various vegetables, and Wm. A. 
Clarke, Bethany, who exhibited several varieties of 
potatoes and corn, raised from reclaimed swamp land 
without manure, were among those who brought of 
their harvests to fill this tent. 
The Dairy was fairly represented,—our friend J. T. 
Norton, Esq., taking the first prize for Butter, and 
H. Morse of Litchfield for Cheese. 
There was a good show of Agricultural Implements 
made by Messrs. Munson & Johnson of New Haven,— 
they and others contributing about the same variety 
as was present at other fairs of the season. Russell’s 
Mowing Machine was among the new claimants for 
popular favor. Its construction seemed simple; the 
knives are reversible, so that, one edge being dull, the 
other can be used, and we do not see any reason why 
it should not do good work. Halliday’s Wind Mill, of 
which we give a cut in this number, was also on exhi¬ 
bition. 
Domestic Manufactures were well represented, 
but we have not room to speak of them at large. Suf¬ 
fice it to say that they drew a large share of attention,, 
especially from the ladiespresent. 
We cannot close without referring to the exertions 
of Mr. Henry A. Dyer, Secretary of the Society, to 
whom as well as to Mr. S. H. Huntington, President, 
and Prof. John A. Porter, Treasurer, great credit is to 
be awarded for the success of this first anniversary of 
the Farmers of Connecticut. We are ourselves under 
obligation to them for attentions during the days of the 
fair, which we wish to acknowledge. Should the fu¬ 
ture of their nursling be as brilliant as has been its 
first entrance on the world, the/ will have little cause 
for regret for the association of their names with its 
early management. 
We should estimate the receipts from what sources 
of information were at out command, as ranging in the 
neighborhood of $8,000. Official returns will not, we 
think, vary much from this figure. 
WEIGHT OF TURKEYS. 
The following is an accurate statement of the weight 
of ten turkeys, under the different states of progress, 
from their live weight to being completely dressed. I 
have made repeated observations of the kind, with si¬ 
milar resuits. They were fed as psual the night be¬ 
fore they were killed, but not on the morning of that 
day. 
The first column of figures shows the live weight— 
2d, after they were bled—3d, after they were picked— 
4th, after crop and entrails were removed, and heads 
taken off. 
lbs 
oz. 
lbs. 
oz. 
lbs 
oz. 
lbs. 
oz. 
6 
4 
6 
0 
5 
. 8 
4 
13 
8 
10 
8 
4 
7 
11 
6 
10 
8 
2 
7 
11 
7 
2 
0 
2 
14 
8 
14 
11 
13 
4 
13 
14 
8 
14 
11 
13 
4 
11 
8 
12 
4 
11 
12 
11 
0 
9 
8 
13 
12 
13 
12 
12 
3 
11 
5 
13 
12 
13 
12 
12 
4 
10 
7 
14 
0 
13 
G 
12 
13 
11 
7 
The last weight was for two small ones taken to¬ 
gether; these two and the three first were the onTy 
hens. The ten crops weighed 10 lbs., and the ten heads 
3 lbs. C T. C 
