THE CULTIVATOR. 
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As this premium is offered with reference to breeding, it would 
be desirable where there is any produce, to exhibit it with the mare. 
For the best boar pig over nine months,.... $3 
For the best sow over nine months,... 3 
For the next best,. 2 
Besides the above premiums, the Board of Managers, feeling par¬ 
ticularly anxious to stimulate our dairies to an increased care and 
attention in the nice operation of producing good butter and cheese, 
resolve to offer the following premiums for that object, not doubting 
but Otsego will do herself justice in this. 
For the best butter packed in pots or firkins of from twenty- 
five to fifty pounds each—not less than one hundred pounds 
to be exhibited, . $10 
For the next best sample,. 7 
For the next best sample,. 5 
For the best quality of cheese, not less than two hundred pounds 
to be exhibited,. 10 
For the next best sample,. 7 
For the next best sample,. 5 
The Board of Managers regret that, from the infancy of the soci¬ 
ety, their present funds do not warrant the extension of premiums 
this year to other objects than those named—otherwise it would 
have been desirable to have given premiums for the culture of cer¬ 
tain crops, and for the improvement of agricultural implements, as 
well as for other important varieties of stock not here named. 
All which, we confidently hope, the subscriptions of another year, 
by the increase of our members from amongst the intelligent and 
liberal portion of our farmers, will enable the society to accomplish. 
While on the present occasion, the deficiency in regard to stock has 
been in some measure met by the privite premiums, we are autho¬ 
rized to offer by one of our members for the following animals: 
For the best grade or half-bred short horn heifer calf, .. $8 
For the next best,... 6 
For the next best,... 4 
For the best grade or half-breed short horn bull calf,. 3 
For the next best,. 2 
In adjudging these premiums, reference will be had to the near 
approach of the calf in those characteristic points and qualities which 
distinguish the full-bred animal. 
For the best grade or half-bred South Down ewe lamb,. $4 
For the next best,... 3 
For the next best,. 2 
For the best grade or half-bred South Down buck lamb,. 3 
For the next best,.. 2 
In awarding these premiums, reference will be had to the charac¬ 
teristic excellencies of the full bred parent stock, both as to carcass 
and wool; the South Down being a breed of established excellence 
as a mutton sheep, and carrying at the same time a fine, close fleece. 
For the best pure bred Merino yearling buck,. $8 
For the next best,... 4 
For the next best,. 3 
In judging of this stock, especial reference will be had to the best 
properties of the real Merino sheep, which we consider to be weight, 
compactness, and quality of fleece, together with that form which 
best indicates vigor of constitution, so essential to sheep husbandry 
in this district of the country under its present management. The 
fleece is expected to be exhibited with the sheep. 
The Board of Managers also inform the members that there is a 
sweepstakes open for yearling heifers of the improved short horn 
breed. Five dollars entrance; for which three entries have already 
been made with the secretary of the society. No entries allowed 
after the first of August. 
A sweepstakes is also proposed for the best half acre of ruta ba- 
ga. Fifty cents entrance—all entries to be made on or before the 
first day of September, with the secretary of the society. 
Rules and Regulations for the Cattle Show, dpc. dpc., to he held at 
Louisville, Otsego county, on Wednesday, October 5th, 1836. 
All entries of stock intended for exhibition or premium, must be 
left with the corresponding secretary of the society, on or before the 
twenty-seventh of September next, stating for what premium they 
are entered. 
The difficulty of making the necessary arrangements for the stock 
without such previous notice, renders a strict enforcement of this 
rule indispensable. 
All animals intended for exhibition or premium, must be placed 
under the direction of the officers of the society by 8 o’clock A. M., 
that they may be arranged in their proper places, where they must 
remains until liberty for their removal is obtained from the keeper of 
the pens. 
Written statements, signed by the owner of any stock exhibited 
for premium, shall be filed with the secretary, Jonathan M. Lull, on 
or before 8 o’clock A. M., stating age, breed, and how fed, together 
with any other particular management or circumstance attending the 
animal, when a certificate of entry shall be given, and the number of 
the pen assigned to the stock. 
Working oxen must be ready for examination and trial by ten 
o’clock A. M., on the hill by Luther M. Skidmore’s residence, just 
without the village, on the road to Gilbertsville. 
No owner or interested person or persons shall be present wih 
the committee during their examination of the stock or other objects 
for premium, unless called for by the committee. 
No animals but such as are bred within the county of Otsego, 
and are the property of members of this society, can be offered for 
premium. 
In cases where there is no competition, and the object exhibited 
by the individual be deemed not sufficiently excellent to merit a pre¬ 
mium, it shall be in the power of the committee to withhold it. 
Butter and cheese offered for premiums, must be deposited on or 
before 8 o’clock, on the morning of the day of exhibition, at Messrs. 
Lull & Gilbert’s store, in Louisville, and there left for examination, 
under a private mark; and a certificate filed with Jonathan M. Lull, 
as secretary of the society, signed by the maker, and containing the 
private mark put on the articles, with particulars as to the time it 
was made, the number of cows kept, and if any other material be¬ 
sides salt, and what salt, was used in its manufacture, with such 
other information as may be useful. 
The treasurer and secretary of the society will attend at Mr. Ber- 
gan’s hotel, for the purpose of receiving subscriptions and statements 
from exhibitors, likewise to give certificates of entry, &c. &c., and 
in the afternoon to pay premiums. 
The reports of the committees will be made, and their awards of 
premiums announced, in the afternoon, by the president of the socie¬ 
ty, at Mr. Bergan’s hotel, where a dinner will be provided for the 
members of the society and their friends. 
Those who have agricultural implements that may tend to abridge 
or facilitate the farmer’s labor, will render the community a service 
by their exhibition; and those having fine animals of any descrip¬ 
tion, though not eligible to take a premium, are respectfully solicited 
to exhibit them, as it is by comparison only that the judgment is 
formed and corrected ; and the board is well aware that the county 
of Otsego contains individual animals of the very purest breed, not 
only of the improved short-horns, but of the Durhams, the Longhorns 
and Devon grades; also sheep of every variety, from the purest and 
most silky woolled Saxon, to the large, beautiful, long woolled Lei¬ 
cester, producing the material ftom which the finest camblets and 
other worsted fabrics are manufactured. 
The board of managers also invite the attention of those who may 
wish to improve their stock by purchases of the best and purest 
breeds, as such will unquestionably be on the ground and for sale. 
By order of the board of managers. 
FRANCIS ROTCH, Cor. Sec. 
Louisville, Butternuts, Otsego Co., N. Y., June 10, 1836. 
EXTRACTS. 
THOROUGH DRAINING-INDICATIONS AND EFFECTS, IN THE GROWING 
CROP, OF STAGNANT SURFACE WATER—INFLUENCE OF SUBSOIL— 
EFFECTS OF THOROUGH DRAINING ON CULTIVATED CROPS—MODE OF 
THOROUGH DRAINING. 
(From the Edinburgh Quarterly Journal of Agriculture.) 
Thorough draining may be defined as that kind which removes surface water 
from subsoils, by placing shallow, though substantially constructed drains' in pa¬ 
rallel lines, at such distances and in such a position, as thoroughly to dry the 
soil without injury to their structure. According to the spirit of this definition, 
thorough draining admits of drains being filled with tiles, stones, or other ap¬ 
propriate materials, provided they are substantially constructed; it admits forms 
of drains of any shape, whether wedge-shaped or otherwise, provided they are 
placed in parallel lines and not cut too deep; it admits the placing of drains in 
any position, whether up and down the slope, or along its face in a diagonal 
direction, provided the inclination given prevents the destruction of their struc¬ 
ture by the force of running water; and it admits the running of drains in any 
place, and at any distance from each other, provided they be so near to one 
another that the w'ater can have easy access to them from every direction.— 
