368 THE CULTIVATOR. Nov. 
John Delafield, President of the New-York State Agricultural Society. 
The above is an excellent portrait of the present pre¬ 
siding officer of the New-York State Agricultural Socie¬ 
ty. Mr. Delafield has been well known to our readers, 
and to the farming public of the country generally, for 
several years. He is known not only as an able and in¬ 
structive writer, but as a most systematic, thorough and 
successful farmer—his farm having received the first pre¬ 
mium of the N. Y. State Society in 1849. Hundreds of 
persons have visited his farm, and made themselves ac¬ 
quainted with its management, and many useful ideas 
and suggestions have been thus obtained, which, by be¬ 
ing widely disseminated, have produced extensive results. 
In fact, Mr. Delafield’s labors in the improvement of 
agriculture, are highly appreciated by the people of New- 
York. In the county of Seneca, in which he resides, he 
is acknowledged to have rendered important services in 
the introduction of improved implements of husbandry, 
and labor-saving machines—among which may be men¬ 
tioned the drain-tile machine, which is producing immense 
benefits—and also in awakening a spirit of improvement 
by the diffusion of information, and by the numerous 
useful, practical examples he has afforded. Not least 
among his praiseworthy labors, is that of making an Ag¬ 
ricultural Survey of Seneca County, a work which was 
undertaken at the request of the Executive Board of the 
State Agricultural Society, and was completed last year. 
The Report is embraced in the Transactions of the Soci¬ 
ety for 1850. It is a document of much interest and va¬ 
lue, presenting in an admirable form the subjects to which 
it is devoted, and may, in this respect, be taken as a pat¬ 
tern for imitation. 
In the discharge of his duties as President of the So¬ 
ciety over which he presides, Mr. Delafield has exhi¬ 
bited the same good judgment and systematic skill which 
have ever characterised his business operations, and both 
in his management as an officer, and in his deportment as 
a citizen, h&s won the sincere esteem of those with whom 
he has been connected^._ 
Preparations for winter should be made with as much 
dispatch as possible. Animals should be provided with 
shelter,'—tender plants should be properly protected,—• 
vegetables and fruits should be secured against the attack 
of frost. 
