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THE CULTIVATOR. 
Sept. 
MONTHLY NOTICES—TO CORRESPONDENTS, &c. 
Communications have been received since our last, 
from J. 0. H., A Subscriber, N. Longworth, B. H., A 
Subscriber, Samuel Guthrie, E. Bridge, J. L. Roche, 
D. A. Ogden, Prof. J. P. Norton, G. Butler, L. H. J., 
W. L. Eaton, F. Holbrook, S. S. R., Eli Westfall, 
R. D. H. T. W. Olcott. 
M. W. P.’s notes were intended for this No., but 
we find them, now that the paper is full, among the 
papers postponed to next month. 
Books, Pamphlets, &c. have been received, since 
our last, as follows : 
The Physiology of Digestion , with experiments on 
the Gastric Juice, by Dr. W. Beaumont, surgeon in 
the U. S. Army. 2d. edition, corrected by S. Beau¬ 
mont, M. D. From the publisher, C. Goodrich, Bur¬ 
lington, Yt.- Descriptive Catalogue of Fruit and 
Ornamental Trees, Shrubs, Green-house Plants, &c., 
grown in the Buffalo Nursery by Benj. Hodge, very 
tastefully got up, and valuable for its decriptions of 
fruits, See., and its hints on the culture of trees and 
plants.-- Fresh Gleanings ; or a new Sheaf from the 
old fields of Continental Europe. By Ik. Marvel. 
In two parts. Harper & Brothers, New-York. From 
the Author. 
The coming State Fair. —This annual festival 
will commence at Saratoga on Tuesday, the 14th inst., 
and will continue three days. We trust that all com¬ 
petitors will be in readiness to comply with the pub¬ 
lished requisitions of the Society. The examination of 
articles nd animals, it should be remembered, will 
take place on the first day- of the exhibition. The 
Executive committee have given notice, that u stock 
and articles must be on hand on /Monday, the 13th of 
September, and duly,entered at the business office and 
arranged on the ground and in the buildings, so that an 
examination can be made by the judges on Tuesday.” 
The judges are also expected to be present on the 13th. 
The Executive committee also give notice that— 
“ Persons intending to send stock and articles 
for exhibition by the Albany and Schenectady Railroad 
are desired to communicate with C. L. Lynds, Esq., 
superintendent at the office of the Company, Albany. 
Articles should be direc ed to his care with plain and 
full directions. Those intending to send by tjhe way of 
Troy, will direct to the care of Jonathan Edwards, 
Esq. President of the Troy and Greenbush Railroad, 
Greenbush, and with full directions. All articles left 
to the care of either of the gentlemen above named, 
will be forwarded without delay.” 
From all quarters we hear that preparations are be¬ 
ing made for an extensive show, and we have no doubt 
that every department will be well filled. We pre¬ 
sume the show of horses in particular, will be large, 
comprising many fine animals. Besides the wide com¬ 
petition among horses in our own State, there will, un¬ 
doubtedly, be many from abroad. We have already 
been informed that “ Black Hawk” from Vermont, 
“Gifford Morgan,” (twenty-one years old,) from New- 
Hampshire, and a noted Morgan horse belonging to S' 
Steele, Esq., of Stanstead, Canada East, will be on 
the ground, together with specimens of their progeny; 
also the horse “ Top-Gallant, ” from New-Jersey, 
owned by Mr. S. C. Smith. [See his advertisement in 
this number.] We presume there will also be speci¬ 
mens of fine-wooled sheep from Connecticut, Massa¬ 
chusetts and Vermont, besides a liberal show from the 
best flocks in this State. The occasion will afford an 
excellent opportunity for the purchase of fine stock of i 
all kinds, as well as implements of agriculture, 
&c., &c. 
Mr. Norton’s Return. —Professor John P. Nor¬ 
ton, whose interesting letters from Europe have ap¬ 
peared in the Cultivator, has again returned to this 
country ; having, in addition to several years’ study in 
the laboratory of Prof. Johnston, at Edinburgh, pass¬ 
ed a year in chemical and physiological investigations 
under the direction of the celebrated Dr. Mulder, at 
Utrecht. He now goes to New-Haven to assume the 
duties devolving on the professorship of Chemistry, to 
which he was some time since appointed, in Yale col¬ 
lege. Though the ground on which he is about to en¬ 
ter, is in a great degree, untried in this country, we 
can hardly doubt, that with the sound practical sense 
and scientific acquirements which he brings to the task, 
his success in demonstrating the connexion of chemis¬ 
try with agriculture, will ultimately be complete and 
satisfactory. 
Annual Fair of the American Institute. —The 
twentieth annual exhibition of this institution, will 
commence at Castle Garden, in the city of New-York, 
on the fifth of October next. Specimens of manufac¬ 
tures and the arts, designed for premiums, must be de¬ 
livered at the Garden on the first and second days of 
October, and vegetables, fruits and flowers, must be 
presented before 12 o’clock, M., on the 4th. The ex¬ 
hibition will be open to the public on the 5th, at 9 o’¬ 
clock, A. M. The show of cattle and other live 
stock will commence on Wednesday, October 13th, and 
close on Thursday, the 14th. The show ground is in 
the rear of Madison Cottage, corner of twenty-third 
street and Fifth Avenue. All entries for live stock 
must be made on or before Monday, the 11th of Octo¬ 
ber. For particulars, see the circular of the Insti¬ 
tute. 
x American Agricultural Association. —We acci¬ 
dentally omitted to notice in our last, that the exhibition 
of vegetables, fruits and flowers, under the direction 
of this Association, will be held at 561 Broadway, 
New-York, on the 8th and 9t.h of September. The 
days have been changed at the suggestion of the State 
Agricultural Society, whose Fair was appointed for 
the 15th and 16th of September, the day heretofore 
named for this Association. It. is hoped that many 
of our florists and nurserymen will attend this exhibi¬ 
tion. 
Hereford Cattle—Removal. —The herd of Here¬ 
ford cattle formerly known as Messrs. Corning &, 
Sotham’s, which has for several years been kept on 
Mr. Corning’s farm, near this city, has been divided. 
A considerable portion of the herd had been disposed 
of and taken to different parts of the country during 
the past winter and spring. Of the remainder, Mr. 
Sotham has taken the larger portion to the Western 
part of this State, near Black Rock. He left here the 
latter part of July with twenty-five head of superior 
animals. It is his intention to continue to breed these 
cattle for sale. We are told that the farm to which 
they have been taken, is well adapted to grass and the 
rearing of stock; the location in respect to communi¬ 
cation is also favorable. On any day during the sea¬ 
son of navigation, stock may be sent westward by 
steamboat to any port along the lakes, from Buffalo to 
Chicago. Eastward, they may be sent by steamboat 
to anv part of the country along the shores of lake 
Ontairo, or the St. Lawrence, or by boats through the 
