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CONSOLIDATION OF BUEL’S CULTIVATOR AND THE GENESEE FARMER. 
Cult. Vol. IX._No. 9. ALBANY, N. Y. SEPTEMBER, 1842. 
PUBLISHED MONTHLY. 
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THE CULTIVATOR. 
“TO IMPROVE THE SOIL AND THE MIND.” 
CATTLE SHOW AND FAIR OF THE N. Y. STATE 
AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
Trial of Implements on Tuesday, Sept. 27. 
General Exhibition on Wednesday S,- Thursday, Sept. 28, 29. 
Public Sale of Stock, fyc. on Friday, Sept. 80. 
All persons who intend to exhibit cattle, horses, sheep 
or swine, should give notice to Luther Tucker, Re¬ 
cording Secretary, Albany, previous to the 15th of Sep¬ 
tember, in order that the necessary accommodations may 
be made for them; and all animals must be on the ground 
by 9 o’clock of the 28th. 
All persons intending to compete for the premiums on 
plows, must send their plows to the Recording Secretary, 
Albany, previous to the 15th of September next, that the 
committee may have opportunity to test them thoroughly, 
and at such times and places as they may think best, and 
be prepared to report at the Fair. 
All other agricultural implements must be sent as above, 
on or before the 26th of September, that the committee 
may have an opportunity to test them the day before the 
exhibition. 
It is very desirable that all those who intend to com¬ 
pete for the premiums on butter and cheese, maple sugar, 
cocoons, silk, &e. should have their specimens in Albany, 
early on the morning of Sept. 27, that they may be de¬ 
posited in their appropriate places, and the rooms suita¬ 
bly arranged on the day previous to the Fair. 
The Executive Committee respectfully solicit for 
exhibition, specimens of rare farm and garden products, 
seeds, roots, fruits, flowers, &c. &c., everything indeed, 
which will add to the interest of the Fair. They would 
particularly request specimens of the different varieties 
of seed wheat, oats, barley, Indian corn, potatoes, tur- 
neps, beets, carrots, &c. &c. 
Before our next issue, the second annual Cattle Show 
and Fair of this Society, under its present organization, 
will have taken place, and we feel great pleasure in be¬ 
ing able to assure our readers, that from present indica¬ 
tions, the meeting will be of the most interesting kind. 
The Fair at Syracuse, last September, as an experiment, 
must be considered as a very successful one, and it is be¬ 
lieved that the arrangements the present year, have been 
such as to remedy the partial failures that on some points 
then occurred. A reference to the list of premiums here¬ 
tofore published in the Cultivator, will show that the list 
is very extensive, and the premiums on a liberal scale; 
while the committees appointed to award them, it will 
he seen, embrace gentlemen from various sections of the 
Union, of the highest respectability, insuring the avoid¬ 
ance of all reasonable causes of complaint in their distri¬ 
bution. The show of Cattlej Horses, Sheep, Swine, &c. 
will, it is believed, constitute a collection of animals hi¬ 
therto unequaled in our country; and the admirer of 
beautiful stock, while he will have an opportunity of 
examining some of the finest in'the country, will be able 
to make such purchases, or sales, as the case may be, as 
will conduce to his profit. 
The ground selected for the exhibition, is very favora¬ 
bly situated at the northern boundary of the city on the 
Albany and Troy road; and the general arrangement of 
the grounds for the Fair, and the regulations for the ex¬ 
hibition, it is thought will be very satisfactory. So great! 
are the facilities for access to this place, and so general is 
the interest felt in this Cattle Show and Fair, that we 
think our friends, farmers and others, will scarcely he 
disappointed in the result of the exhibition. 
One of the most interesting points of this Annual Fair, 
is the show of agricultural and other implements, as 
showing the improvement made in form and design with¬ 
in a few years; and the great skill which our mechanics 
evince in their construction. Nothing perhaps will more 
clearly demonstrate how much agriculture owes to the 
mechanic arts, and how indissolubly their interests are 
connected, than an examination of the implements offer¬ 
ed at our annual fairs. Farmers who have neglected to 
provide themselves with the improved implements so 
necessary to good husbandry, will here find abundant op¬ 
portunities of comparison and selection. 
In this notice of the Annual Fair, there is one thing to 
which we wish to call especial attention; and that is the 
necessity of having the presence, and the encouragement 
of the fair. Let them be present with the proofs of their 
industry, the labors of their own fair hands; with the flow¬ 
ers they have cultivated, those beautiful evidences of cor¬ 
rect feeling and good taste; and if nothing more, with 
their smiles, their kind words of greeting, and the ef¬ 
fectual encouragement which the presence of woman al¬ 
ways renders in the prosecution of every good work. In 
England, ladies of the highest distinction make a point 
of being present at such exhibitions, where husbands, 
brothers, or sons, are contenders for the premiums to be 
awarded. Surely it cannot be unbecoming in an Ameri¬ 
can woman to feel a similar solicitude, or grace by her 
presence a similar exhibition. 
FAIR OF THE AMERICAN INSTITUTE. 
The Annual Fair of the Institute is to be held in the 
city of New-York, the third week in October, and the 
preparations and arrangements indicate that the Fair for 
this year will not be inferior in interest to any that have 
preceded it. Established for the promotion of American 
industry, the Institute has gone steadily onward as its 
means permitted, and has doubtless effected much good. 
Last year the sum appropriated by the state for the en¬ 
couragement of agriculture, which belonged to the city 
of New-York, was received by this society, and thus its 
means of rendering agriculture more efficient aid than it 
had hitherto done, essentially aided; and we are glad to 
see that this important interest has in the arrangements 
for the present year, received more of the attention it 
deserves. 
It appears that for the last seven years of the Institute, 
its aggregate receipts from all sources have been $51,920. 
Only $7,781.71 of this amount has been expended in pre¬ 
miums; and of this sum, that devoted to agricultural pre¬ 
miums, has been $1,618.96. The balance of this sum of 
51,920 dollars, has been required for the expenses of the 
society, rent of rooms for the exhibition of manufactured 
arlicles, agricultural implements, &c. library, printing, 
steam engine to work the farm and other machinery ex¬ 
hibited, the whole it appears having been rigidly appro¬ 
priated to the use of the Institute. With the exception 
of the small sum received from the state, this amount has 
been received from the contributions of individual libe¬ 
rality. 
For the premiums on manufactured articles, imple¬ 
ments, cattle, &e. &c. we must refer to the circular of 
the Institute, merely stating that the whole is on a libe¬ 
ral scale, and worthy of the Institute of the commercial 
emporium. 
Sale of Stock. —It will he seen by an advertisement 
in this paper, that there is to be a public sale of pure 
bred Short Horns, at Philadelphia, on the 8th inst. The 
herd of Mr. Gowen is celebrated for its milking proper¬ 
ties, and will doubtless draw together a goodly number 
of purchasers. 
Threshing Machines. —We invite the attention of 
those who are in want of Horse Powers and Threshing 
Machines, to the advertisement of Mr. Bostwick, of 
New-York, in this paper. From what we hear of his 
machine, we think it will equal the recommendations gi¬ 
ven of it, and that those who purchase of Mr. B. will not 
be disappointed in getting a well made and substantial 
machine. W e are glad to hear that Mr. Bostwick will 
be at our State Fair with one of his machines, and that 
he will also have at the Fair, a new and valuable Straw 
Cutter, which he is about introducing to the public. 
Cult. & Far. Vol. III.—No. 9. 
FOREIGN CORRESPONDENCE. 
We received our usual files of foreign Agricultural 
Journals by the last steamer at Boston. The English pa¬ 
pers are filled with detailed accounts of the great Cattle 
Show of the Royal Agricultural Society, which was held 
at Bristol, during the week commencing July 12. It 
seems to have exceeded even the previous splendid shows 
of this truly Royal Society. The New Farmer's Journal, 
of July 18, is accompanied by a large supplement, which 
with a part of the paper itself, is devoted to a detailed 
description of this grand show, the whole of which 
would nearly fill a number of the Cultivator. The suc¬ 
ceeding numbers of the same paper furnish us with beau¬ 
tifully engraved portraits of Sir Thomas Fairfax,* a Dur¬ 
ham bull, which received the first prize of thirty sove¬ 
reigns, and of Symmetry ,f which received the second 
prize of twenty sovereigns. We are saved the labor of 
condensing these descriptions, by the following letter 
from P. L. Simmonds, Esq. for which, as well as for the 
papers he was so kind as to send us, he will please accept 
our thanks: 
Bristol Meeting of the Royal Ag. Society, &c. 
(From our own Correspondent.) 
London, Aug. 3, 1842. 
My Dear Sirs —Although detailed accounts of the re¬ 
cent meetings of the principal agricultural societies of 
Great Britain will doubtless have reached you ere this, 
yet conformably to your wishes, I send you herewith a 
condensed account of the proceedings, suitable to your 
limited space, accompanied by such passing remarks and 
reflections as occur to me, and which I trust will prove 
interesting to your readers. 
The annual meeting of the Royal Ag. Society of Eng¬ 
land, was held this year, under very favorable circum¬ 
stances. The splendor and magnificence of the meeting 
and its general arrangements, as well as the large con¬ 
course of company in attendance, mark clearly the high 
state of prosperity to which the society has now attained. 
The demonstration affords abundant evidence that the 
farmers of England are actuated by a laudable spirit of 
emulation, and that they have successfully determined to 
keep pace with the improving spirit of the age. The 
advancement of agriculture is a knowledge which has 
been justly considered one of primary importance even 
in the earliest ages of antiquity, and in our own, not only- 
essential to existence, hut the nursing mother of those 
arts of civilization which have flourished and filled Eu¬ 
rope with their benefits. The prosperity of England, 
(and indeed of every country,) is intimately connected 
with the successful prosecution of agricultural pursuits; 
for they supply the basis of our home trade, and find em¬ 
ployment for the greater part of our laboring population. 
An amazing deal has of late been done towards the im¬ 
provement of agriculture; it has been reduced to some 
certain and uniform principles; philosophy has labored 
to develop its capabilities;, the nature of soils and the 
laws of vegetation have been attentively studied and 
carefully explained; many useful experiments have been 
tried, and succeeded; and the important discoveries in 
chemistry and mechanical inventions of a most useful or¬ 
der, have eminently contributed to expedite its progress. 
Of this improvement we have abundant proof; the face 
of green fields—the broad expanse of pasture and arable 
lands, which stretch far and wide and form so many fair 
landscapes around us—the cattle, more perfect than those 
which occupy the canvas of Claude—the implements of 
rural industry—the labors of the husbandman, all testify 
to the modern triumphs of agricultural science, and the 
great benefits which such societies have wrought here 
and elsewhere for the country. The advantages, the ab¬ 
solute necessity in fact, of these improvements and dis¬ 
coveries, are obvious to all: as population progresses and 
the area of the country becomes more and more occupied, 
to keep pace with and provide for the growing con¬ 
sumption of this increase, it is necessary to employ all 
the means that science and experience place within our 
range, to render the soil more productive. 
The progress of the society was well described by Mr. 
Handley, the President, who at the meeting, observed:—. 
“I rejoice, however, to tell you that the society, lor 
whose success I certainly took a very deep interest at the 
period of its foundation, now numbers among its mem¬ 
bers no fewer than 6,000 of the yeomanry of England, 
every one of whom necessarily feels an interest in the 
great object that we have in view, namely, to augment the 
means of human subsistence. If our society has done 
* “ Sir Thomas Fairfax,” was bred by Mr. Whittaker, and is 
the sire of the splendid young bull “ Fairfax,” imported and 
owned by E. P. Prentice, Esq. oT Mount Hope, near this city. 
I f “ Symmetry” was bred by Mr. Thomas Forrest, of Stretton. 
