New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1849-09-14
NEW-YORK TRIBUNE.
The Farmers sinie Pair.

rcss here IL pivhDuISru ny b"p1 JA4SrH ptI--l
70 any Of its predecessors. ! Do Mt pretend %
eve ny own Judgment FOR ] have none. After
easing three or four hours in wandering among
sss gazing at this bswdering mass Of Live Stock
Inulements Farm Produce Inventions, &c. ]
nave brought away little more than a headache
AID more vivid conception Of the wonders Of
Nature and Art, and a more lively idea q that
b,acacent uture % which Industry is now has
..ung
OF Horses, Cattle and Sheep there is great
election here, but ! will leave their merits 70
the appropriate Committees. One Of the largest
and fnes. lots Of Sheep is that Of Vermontcr
Nr Bingham, which is generally admired Hogs
are not so abundant, but they look great des
better here than Ia tho streets Of New.Yo-k
r. ere are some fine Steers and Working Oxen,
but a great share Of the Cattle seem u me in zoo
higb condition. What is the use Of an OK weigh
ipga ton or overt OF course, you may load bis
frame with tallow-that is not difficult opera
ton and indicates neither genius nor science
but what does that prove You may make hog
Of him, but he is none the better to eat and good
br nothing 10 work. Is there any evidence tnst
such monstrDsities are profitable that it is cx
pedient or economical so to load animals with iai
do not remember any and in default Of it pass
by all excessively fat cattle Of no account.
nm glad to know that the Woolgrowcrs are
ding better this year than during the three or
four preceding. So many Wooden Factories were
erected or commenced under the Tariff Of A. that
since the focks of Sheep have been diminished
under the depressing influences of the present
Tariff, the consumption OF Wool in the county is
nov considerably in excess Of the production, and
manufacturers must buy 90 keep their mills run
ming, even though the profit be holly imaginary.
Thus Wool has been doing better this season, and
trust WoOlens are beginning to feel the effects
oft. Its the interest Of each Producing lnterctt
that every other should flourish, and the pros
perity Of Agriculture and Manufactures is insep-
aeby blended.
There cannot be less taan two or three hundred
different kinds of Agricultural Implements ex-
hibtion here Horse -Rakes. Cultivators, Straw
Cutters. Sub-Soil and all other Flows, new Bee
Hives, Wator-Wheels, Horsepower Saws, d..
&c. consider this altogether the mos. important
feature of the Fair. A great OK may be reared
BY greater fool very little TO the profit or ciiiica
ton of other fools but no man who ever worked
A wear at farming can spend day among these
Implements aud Inventions without being stinu
lat ID to think. The great end OF all such exhlDi-
tons is an improvement of the breedoi Farmers
Of Men. Now the man who has been Swimming
over hundred acres of land for the last twenty
or thirty years, blowing six inches deep, manuring
with his good wishes, and growing fifteen or
twenty bushels of corn to the acre, cannot spend
a day in one of these Fair-enclosures without
- a. so DlDVs
one of which, properly used, would double his usual
product of Corn and Vegetables and IN dry seasons
treble it these Straw Cutters, with one OF winch
his scanty crop Of Hay might have been made
with the aid Of Straw, Stalks, &c. to winter his
stock bountifully these Cutivators, Seed Planters
Horse Rakes and other laborsavinS implements
must set him thinking. What sort OF crops do
those farmers obtain who use such implements
Who make the most by iarmlng-the fifteen or the
sg,v .bnshel corn-erowersl What sort OF farmers
IA il who are able TO buy land when any is Tor sale
Inv for cash What sort of farming leaves land
IN condition to sell advantageously These ques-
tons arise spontaneously in the simplest minds,
and they will be answered. l don't believe
farmer can attend three successive Fairs, keeping
hs head unclouded by liquor, and not resolve to
farm better through all his life aiterward'
Noo,her business could bear to be managed SO
yretchedly as Farming still is Only think OF
civilized men killing their bees to get the honey
in this Nineteenth Century after Christ. Killing
aeoy to obtain her milk would be on the same
princple. Yet to this day half the bee-men
smother their bees to get the honey, although the
land is full of simple and cheap hives on hu
cal III
shall the stupid barbarism Of smoiherag bees con-
tinue
Among the novelties | have seen today IS
machine for Dressing (Pckingl Mill-stones whioh
seems to work admirably Ditto horsepower
Wood.Saw, which pitches the stove-wood r'Sh'
aud left in a way delightful to bad chopper
Ike me.
Mr.. CLAY has thus far been the HE ana soul
of the Fair. He arrived at 3 o'clock yesterday
and visited the grounds last evening III an open
carriage and again this morning. when 'ne'e
were Fifty Thousand People within the enclosure.
1t is generally regretted that the enthusiasm ana
pressure to see him would not let him ahsh' ana
more closely examine the Cattle and Horses OF
which he is known to be one Of the best judges IN
America. He is in improved health ana eAco"e''
spirits. He leaves the city at tomorrow morn
lax for home by way OF Oswego and Lake On'a-
no He does no, wish to stop anywhere, but may
- - O., a, Rochester &c.
JosSsIows JAIL BuRSED.-On Saturday a'er'
noon the jail in this village was discovered 10 DC o"
hfe. and what is most unusual, the bells were MOI
funr. nor much alarm given The Engine CornPani
-. ~, the snot In a short time, aud WORKED Win
commeudnble zeal but owing 10 the hose breaking AZ