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THE CULTIVATOR. 
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AGRICULTURAL SOCIETIES. 
NEW-YORK STATE AG. SOCIETY. 
The annual meeting of the New-York State Agri¬ 
cultural Society, will be held in the city of Albany, on 
Wednesday and Thursday, the 20th and 21st days of 
January, 1847, commencing at 10 o’clock, A. M., on 
the 20th. Farmers, and the public generally, are invi¬ 
ted to attend. Luther Tucker, Rec. Sec’y. 
Albany, Dec. 10, 1846. 
At the monthly meeting of the Executive Committee 
of the New-York State Agricultural Society for Decem¬ 
ber, held at the Society’s Hall on the 10th, the Presi¬ 
dent in the Chair, it was, on motion of Mr. Tucker, 
resolved to proceed to the appointment of committees to 
award the premiums to be competed for at the annual 
meeting of the Society in January,—when the following 
gentlemen were appointed for that purpose : 
On Farms— -Dr. J. P. Beekman, Kinderhook ; Antho¬ 
ny Van Bergen, Coxsackie ; Wm. Fuller, Skaneateles. 
On Experiments and Essays■ —A. B. Allen, New- 
York ; Prof. Emmons, Albany ; Sandford Howard, 
Albany. 
On Designs for Farm Dwellings —Geo. Geddes, Fair- 
mount ; Jno. McD. Me Intyre, Albany ,• Ebenezer 
Mack, Ithaca. 
On Cheese Dairies —Benj. P. Johnson, Rome ; Tho. 
Hillhouse, Albany ; Ira Hopkins, Auburn. 
On Butter Dairies— -Zadock Pratt, Prattsville : Rob’t. 
Dennison, Salisbury ; E. W. Bateman, Venice. 
On Selection of Fruits —L. F. Allen, Black Rock ; 
Dr. A. Stevens, New-York ; Dr. A. Thompson, Au¬ 
rora ; J. C. Platt, Plattsburgh; Prof. J. Jackson, 
Schenectady. 
On Wheat , Barley, Rye and Oats —Daniel Lee, Roch¬ 
ester ; Squire M. Brown, Elbridge ; John Wilkinson, 
Poughkeepsie. 
On Indian Corn, Corn Fodder , and Peas —Asa Fitch, 
Salem ; Benj. Enos, Madison ; C. S. Benton, Newark. 
On Root Crops —C. N. Bement, Albany ,• John C. 
Mather, Schaghticoke ; S. B. Burchard, Hamilton. 
On Hops, Flax, and Broom Corn —Samuel Cheever, 
Saratoga ; John Rankin, Canandaigua; Justus Har¬ 
wood, Albany. 
On Tobacco, Cabbage, Clover, and Timothy seed —E. 
Marks, Fairport ; G. V. Sacket, Seneca Falls ; John 
Walsh, Albany. 
On motion of the President, 
Resolved, That Mr. Prentice, Mr. Tucker, Mr. Me 
Intyre, be a commitee to make arrangements for the 
annual meeting of the Society, in January next. 
On motion of Mr. Vail, of Rensselaer, 
Resolved, That the committee on loaning the surplus 
funds of the Society, appointed at the last meeting, 
(having reported in part.) be continued with same pow¬ 
ers. 
On motion of Mr. Tucker, 
Resolved, That the thanks of the Society be presented 
to Lewis F. Allen, Esq., for a copy of his “ Ameri¬ 
can Herd Book,” presented to the Society. 
Seneca County. —We are indebted to John Del- 
afield, Esq., President of the Seneca county Agricul¬ 
tural Society, for the Annual Report of its proceedings 
for 1846. The exhibition for 1846, exceeded in the 
general competition and interest, any previous show. 
Premiums to the amount of about $300 were awarded. 
The prize for the best farm in the county, was awarded 
to Mr. Delafield, the president ; and for the second best, 
to Mr. John L. Hubbard—for the best acre of winter 
Wheat, 31 bushels, to J. D. Coe—for the best acre spring 
Wheat, 25j| bushels, to E. S. Bartlett—best acre Oats, 
82£ bushels, to Jason Smith—best acre Barley, 54i| 
bushels, to D. B. Rorison—best acre Indian Corn, 143 
bushels ears, to E.S. Bartlett—best quarter acre Sugar 
Beets, 320 bushels, equal to 1280 per acre, to R. L. 
Stevenson. The report speaks of the manifest improve¬ 
ment of the cattle of the county, by crossing with the 
Durhams, many of which, showing good breeding and 
careful attention, were at the exhibition. The number 
of sheep in the county, is stated at 75,000, mostly me¬ 
rinos, producing an average of three pounds per head. 
On the second day of the Fair, the President delivered 
a brief address, in which he minutely detailed the cost 
of raising an acre of wheat, under favorable circumstan¬ 
ces, and showed conclusively that wheat could not be 
raised and sent to the mill, at a less cost than twelve 
dollars and eighty-one cents per acre—or in round num¬ 
bers, thirteen dollars per acre. Contrasting this cost 
with the average market value for five years past, he 
showed that the average produce worked a loss to the 
county, and was a ruinous course to the farmer. The 
President then showed that some of the wheat lands of 
the county had produced from 20 to 35 bushels, and 
some more, per acre, and pointed out prominent errors 
in husbandry which produced the falling off ; which he 
termed “ a blameable adherence to erroneous practice.” 
and “censurable want of information.” 
Officers of the Society for 1847.—John Delafield, 
Geneva (P. O.) President ; Jeremiah Rapelyee, Co¬ 
vert Alanson Woodworth, Ovid ; Wm. F. Coan, Lodi ; 
S. J. Folwell, Romulus; Henry Feugles, Variek ; 
Michael Hoster, Fayette ; F. J. Swabey, Seneca Falls ; 
Daniel Young, Tyre ; Orin Southwick, Junius, and J. 
L. Hubbard, Waterloo, Vice Presidents ; J. D. Coe, 
Treasurer ; Arad Joy, Corresponding, and Wm. R. 
Schuyler, Ovid, Recording Secretary. 
Monroe County. —At the annual meeting of the 
Monroe Co. Agricultural Society, held at the Rochester 
Seed Store, on Tuesday, December 8 th. the following 
named officers were elected for 1847, viz :—Samuel 
Miller, of Penfield, President ; George C. Latta. of 
Greece, Romanta Hart, of Brighton, John Rowe, of 
Riga, Vice Presidents. James P. Fogg, of Rochester. 
Treasurer ; James H. Watts of Rochester, Recording 
Secretary. 
Shelters for Stock.— The Naturalist, published 
at Nashville, Tennessee, gives its readers some important 
advice on this head, in a few words. It says that no 
farmer at the North, thinks of exposing his cattle, 
sheep and hogs to the peltings of the storm; but that it 
is not so at the South. He adds—“if there be reason 
in anything, shelters are quite as important at the South 
as at the North. We have much more cold, rainy wea¬ 
ther here, and it is the kind to injure stock more than 
snows, or the cold northern blasts.” This is no doubt 
true; but stock are not as much sheltered, even at the 
North, as they should be, or as would be for the interest 
of the farmer; though the practice of sheltering is 
much more general here than in the section alluded to. 
We agree, however, in the remark that shelter, of some 
kind, is as important there as here, and would be at¬ 
tended with as great advantages in the saving of food 
and in increasing the comfort of animals. 
