Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1850-1859, 1851-08-27
The Farmer.
Prom the New York Working 1as0se.
Agricultural TaiIS.

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], Agricultural Fairs.
. The season Of Fairs is fast approaching,
|. and preparations are making in al the
states for extended usefulness, by exciting
the farmers to competition.
In New York we find several institu-
tions at work betimes. The State Society
and The American Institute, are both bu-
. silly engaged preparing for their forsheom-
ing fairs, while the county societies arc
competing with each other for the general
benefit.
The State Horticultural Society of New
Jersey, will hold fair at Jersey City,
where, in addition to the fruits Of New
Jersey, we may expect large assortment
). fr,m the horticulturists of New York.
No society in this country has Is yet pro-
duced so great display of superior fruits
as this society, and they will doubtless call
together large meeting.
The Essex County Institute will hold
their annual fair at Newark, and, As usual,
a fair display may be anticipated
| Massachusetts,, and indeed all the east.
ern states, are busily engaged in the good
cause, and the volume of reports of county
societies published by the Legislature Of
Massachusetts,, and collated by their See-
retary of State, is doing much to induce
action
Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia, Del
aware and Ohio, have already published
the programmes of their fairs, and indeed
general spirit Of advancement is rapidly
pervading the public mind
Our Legislators, like stubborn school
boys, are receiving slight touches from the
rod Of puplc opinion, and stubbornly mu'-
tering, We wont! We wont! but as the
fiagellation increases to wholesome inten-
sity, they will burst into tears and yield
what they well knew in the beginning
was their duty.
One word to our brother farmers, many
Of whom as yet have taken no part in
their county or state fairs.
Let them reflect why they wish their
children to associate with others of supe-
rior education and moral worth, and they
cannot but admit that it is because they
may benefit by example, and so will it
prove with themselves in the prosecution
of their calling, when, witnessing the
products Of superior farms and couversing
with their propriesors on their modes Of
culture, &c, new facts are ascertained, and
improved m odes of culture adopted. No
farmer ever visited public fair without
obtaining knowledge Of some new and
useful fact. -
Improved agricultural implements are
exhibited and generally put in operation,
and thus the ingenuity Of practical me-
chanies for the preceding year is rendered
available for the use Of the fymer.
Every farmer, when visiting a fair,
should take with him seeds of superior
quality, if he have them, and distribute
in exchange for others, thus rendering
and receiving benefit. At most fairs ad-
dresses are delivered, and the current i'm
provements of the day arc made known.
Such information saves the farmer from the
of travelling long distances to OBJ
erve modes OF culture adopted by the
more successful, and indeed the whoe re-
ults of public exhibitions Of an agricultu-
al kind, are invariably valuable and in
tructive
The improvements in plows within the
asst two years. have been greater than du-
ing all time preceding; all these will
oubtless be exhibited a; the different fairs.
lany other plows Of merit have been im-
roved upon, and the improved cultivators
nd other implements cannot bus materially
lcilitate the cultivation of the soil. Farm
rs should, with enc accord, lend help
,g hand by attending these fairs. The
ublic are alive to this all-impOrtant branch
national industry, and nothing is re-
uired to ensure action on the part of our
but unanimous movement by
le farmers themselves
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Guano for Wheat.
The editor of the American Farmer,
ho we'll understands the subject, is in