New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1851-09-22
The FaYmerx' Annual Fair,
Edit.Dsl CofrsspohdsRce Of The Tribun
RCCHYs-ER Tnursday Sept IL.

Sons within ne nc OsC,e when ielt d. /
ocloca, aaG that ;he whole number Who entered
durmg the day can hardly nave fallen ooio" one
Hundred Thousand I snail be disappointed j
the days receipts come snort Of 5000
Brighter AID better weather never was lhdh
has thus far been enjoyed througnou'' hacn o.
the three DAYS has been a. clear as the sun ana
,ky could make II today alone has been nod
era,ely warm Tuesday and wednesday were
a, cool as could be wished An expense OF eiOO
!. keepiog the streets perfectly waiered would
have made every thing as agreeable as heah
copld wish estimate the positive injury 10
.,es.es sustained for want Of that 500 at $1,000
While the dscomfor, and probable disease caused
nv the cloud Of dust continually hoSerlng over
tho road from Marn-st 70 the Fair ground were
far more serious items.
The Fair has scarcely been visible to-day be-
. cause of the superabundance Of the People
Every hall, tent, booth and rough board edlhce
within the Enclosure have been crowded by a
moving, pressing, sweating mass since lOocioch'
The open grounds were m good part black win
moving thousands, and not oneiourth OF those
who would gladly have witnessed the operations
of the various Grain Threshers, Stalk Cutters,
Horse. Power Wood Cutters, &c. have been able
10 do So am night GLAD that came early and
devoted Tuesday and yesterday IN good part to
seeing while seeing was practicable.
- The Far IS immense IN the number OF AM
mails exhibited think beyond all American
orecedeHt That there Is a great amount OF ex-
cellence displayed IS the general verdict !
think there must be more than one thousand
head of Cattle besides Horses and the keen
competition between the advocates OF the Dur
ham and Devon breeds respectively has brought
together their best specimens, as also OF the va
mons approved crosses OF these with the Native
and with each other There are some Tine Ayr
.hres also exhibited The show OF Sheep is
extensive and very good, IN both the fine and
cOarse-w0oed varieties, though competent
farmer friend who attended the Vermont State
Far al MlddlebUry last week, thinks, that was
superior 70 ours both IN Sheep and Horses If
II be true. as he was assured, that ten irst-caSs
Saxonv Ewes were actually sold there for $500
cash each, to bc taken to OHIO, II must be owned
that the Vermont sheep-breeders have either re.
markably fine animals or an extraordinary talent
for selling them
But do not take so deep an interest IN AMI
mails a. IN Implements, because the field OF
greatest Progress IN Agriculture l. decidedly
that OF Invention and Machinery. After all the
noise made about this large Durham, thatmarvel
0usy fne-wooled Saxon, &c. &c, should not
be- greatly surprised by demonstration that
Abraham, Lot and other ancient herdsmen had
about as fine stock any modern breeder
who is enabled to sell three-y oarolds at hundreds
Of dollars per head But Just confront any old
time patriarch with such Moving Machines,
Reapers. Threshers, &c as are exhibited on
tins Playground and he would knock under
al once. Nothing comparable TO these m
efficiency were ever seen before this Nineteenth
Century nothing equal IN all respects TO what is
here exhibited can he seen Out OF the United
States to-day. Great Britain alone can approach 1t,
and she can do no more than that. Her machines
are too heavy, too expensive, too complicated.
Small farmers cannot afford 10 buy them and
common aborers cannot work them. Here all
Is different We have Horse Rakes for $40
which do their work perfectly, while their
British rivals cost $50 are oi far heavier
,raueht, and perform no better. An extensive
farmer observed Yesterday that he could not have
Gu, ms Hay GOO acres) tins year without the
help of a new Mower Edwards, think which
required a man, boy and span of horses to work
II anu did the work OF ten men. This Is but one
among many such newly perfected aids to rapid
and cheap Farming There Is a Corn Planter
here which drops and covers thoroughly one row
as fast as a horse can walk, requiring only a man
10 guide the horse hut there Is no reason why
II should not be 80 improved as 10 plant
two rows as easily and rapidly as II now
does one OF Gram-Sowe there are hall
dozen on the ground-any one OF them great
improvement on hand-Sowmg, IN regard both Il
excellence and expedition And | was pleased
10 find here cheap Steam Engine ON wheels
(four-horse, costing s325, all appliances incud-
ed from the mandatory OF Hoard y Bradford
Watertown. Jefferson Co. ! visited aud spoke
of their works some fifteen months since. ana
learned to-day that they have been unable 10 al
their orders promptly at any time during the
past year, owing 10 the continually increasing
demand, although they have meantime quadru-
Piled the number of their workmen They make
engines with boiler, &c, as low a. SIS. (hsit
horse,) requiring ABOUT as much tuel as pai!oi
hre, and, from that up 10 SiN-hOrSe, (SiOO) The
one here exhibited can be guided to the barn 81
stack 10 thresh out and wnnow the gram, and
when that is done Will prope itself to the
held IN quest OF a lob OF umppUlilug
thence Will travel back to the house aud
there saw up the winters wood about As
fas, as man can hand 1t along, beguihuc Is
leisure moments 10y pumping water FOR the cattle.
churning, turning grind>tone. hanging the brass
kettle over the Kitchen fire, and rocking the era
die OF course, speak only Of the power 20
apply II to all these various uses, other machi-
nery is requisite But | have seen enough 20
convince me that Tor ali purposes where essen
ually stationary power Will answer. steam IS a.