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THE CULTIVATOR. 
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lUi'es for the Utmith. 
Patent Office Report. —We are indebted to the 
Hon. Charles Mason, Commissioner of Patents, for 
the annual Report from the Patent Office for 1852—3, 
comprised in two volumes—the first, exhibiting the 
Mechanical, and the second, the Agricultural transac¬ 
tions of the Department. 
Dutchess County Fair. —This Fair was held at 
Washington Hollow on the 4th and 5th of October, and 
is said to have been unusually fine, particularly in live 
stock, of which there was a large exhibition—among 
them the fine South Down Ram just received from Jo¬ 
nas Webb, by Mr. Thorne^ 
Orange County Agricultural Fair. —This Fair 
took place at Goshen, Sept. 28th and 29th. We learn 
from a correspondent that the exhibition fell short of 
previous ones. “ The show of agricultural and horti¬ 
cultural products, and the display of articles of domes¬ 
tic manufacture, were almost an entire failure. The 
long tables in the tent, had scarcely an article upon 
them to attract attention. The Stock Department was 
better represented, and the show of fat cattle very 
good. The Horses, however, attracted the largest share 
of attention, and large numbers of superior animals 
were on the grounds. The high price which horses 
bear in the New-York market, has induced many far¬ 
mers to breed them as a part of their business.” 
Our Ag. College. —At the recent Fair of the Mon¬ 
roe Co. Ag. Society, after an address by the Hon. John 
Delafield, the following resolution was unanimously 
adopted: 
Resolved , That we have now heard with pleasure the 
statements in reference to the promotion of our farming 
interests, by the organization of the New-York State 
Agricultural College, and do heartily congratulate the 
farmers of the State on this important event: that we 
believe the farmers and citizens of the county of Mon¬ 
roe will as far as practicable aid and sustain this im¬ 
portant object, as being intimately- connected with the 
prosperity of our State and Nation. 
such is their blighting influence on the community 
around them, that intelligent persons avoid purchasing 
farms in their vicinity. It is likewise stated that there 
are many townships in Ohio where the lands are de¬ 
preciated full 25 per cent from this cause. 
Mutual Instruction. —“ There is no branch of 
human knowledge,” says Hon. Wm. C. Rives, in his, 
late address at Saratoga, “ in which so much is taught 
by example, as agriculture. The practice of the best 
farmers, it has been well said by the leading agricul¬ 
tural writer of England, Mr. Pusey, is the accumulated 
and varied science of ages. Acknowledging as I do 
with gratitude, and in the most unreserved terms the 
obligations of agriculture to professional science, I 
must yet say that farmers are in the main the best 
teachers of farmers, and that through the medium of 
agricultural societies and agricultural journals they 
have been organized' into- a great Lancasterian school, 
in which the system of mutual instruction has received 
its highest development and most useful application.” 
Mr. J C. Tiffany, Esq., of Coxsackie, has, 
we understand, sold his Ayrshire bull, “Marion,” to 
David Miller, Esq., of Carlisle, Pa. 
Agricultural Paper. —After the monthly reading 
of the Cultivator, I can almost imagine having attend¬ 
ed an Agricultural meeting, composed of some of the 
most intelligent farmers of the Union, the editor in the 
chair, your humble servant in some unnoticed corner, 
though .pone the less interested. Good agricultural 
reading makes farmers more proud of their calling, 
and happier in the discharge of its duties, and it in¬ 
cites them to the higher exertion of the mind. Yours, 
D. R. S. Malone , N. Y., Sept. 1853. 
Water in Streets. —Some farmers, for economy, 
drive their cattle into the street for water, particularly 
in winter. While there, they usually drop much ma¬ 
nure, and the amount thus wasted by a large herd in a 
single winter, would, in many instances, pay for a per¬ 
manent supply of water in their yards, to say nothing 
of the saving of labor. 
Messrs. Allen & Co. have discontinued the publica¬ 
tion of the New- York Agricullor , a weekly folio, and 
the Farm and Garden , monthly, and in- place of these 
publications now issue a weekly quarto of 16 pages, un¬ 
der their old title of American Agriculturist , at $2 a 
year. - 
^ Distilleries Unprofitable for Farmers. —The 
Ohio Cultivator, in allusion to the common plea that 
distilleries afford a market for corn and keep up the 
price, states in substance that Ohio pork would com¬ 
mand two or three dollars more per barrel in some of 
the eastern markets, if purchasers could he assured that 
none of it was still fed —and that, generally, the farm¬ 
ers of Ohio lose at least one dollar per barrel on all the 
pork sold, from this cause, amounting to at least Haifa 
million of dollars for the State. Also, that the value 
of lands would be greatly enhanced in some neighbor¬ 
hoods, if these nuisances could be removed ; and that 
A Mammoth Pumpkin. —At the Warerooms of 
Emery & Co., there is a mammoth pumpkin, differing 
in its external appearance from the common variety 
and closely resembling a squash, which measures six 
feet and nine inches in circumference and weighs one 
hundred and thirty four pounds. It was grown by 
M. Wanzer, of Greenbush. 
Michigan State Fair. —The late Fair at Detroit 
was one of the best held in the State. The attendance 
of people was large, and the exhibition much better 
than last year. The receipts for tickets exceed $5,000, 
an increase of nearly one-half over last year’s receipts 
Good Farming. —Mr.S. Eldred gives, in the Mich¬ 
igan Farmer , an estimate of the products of hi3 200- 
acre farm the present year. He finds a balance of 
$2,700 in favor of the farm, as payment for labor, in¬ 
terest and profit. 
