New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-09-28
WESTCHESTER COUNTY AGRICUL-
IURAL EXHIBITION.
From Our Own Repcrter.

From Our Own Reporter.
The a, nusl meeting of farmers ct what IL mscallsd
The Fair" of Westchsster County, wss bold this
year al, or rather near Mouot Ki.co, ~hilou Ne~.
css,e on Wednesday and Thursdsy of 'his week; saA
az, in the opioou of como who kno -, bsttsr than
any Of the preceding exh 'tions. Ia some respsots
uas little more ctedasle to such rch cousty rhsa
soms That we haze attended, bat The whole ~As
not up TO our idea Of what the aupud fair of such
comfy sbould he.
The trutb is ,bs, the mess of the people of the county
feel inter- st ia this exhibition thaa they woda
for one In he Interior Of Africa.
Ills true that great macy families Of farmers In the
iumedjsts vicinity where the Fair Is bed. make
the occasion sort If holiday, and 81 far maksu uss
ter Of Der eft 10 The communits bnt net oae OF tea
and pro baby not enc 10 hundred, who visited the
Fair tbs yesr, coptri nutsd 30 much "a single ear Of
corn dozen of apples 70 make Il attractive sod To-
tereetng the OF visitors. IL is this lack OF In
t-rest that mskes he shown meastr. With some Of
us DO live the county and really feel al interest IN
whatever would promote Improvements In lbs sgto0t-
ture, lie impossible % do u BY devoting time aud ss-
tentiop to these nal Fairs because tied
20 business matters 10 the city, As that " not the
case with the far generally, they are censuraoA
for doirg something to make ths Faira atra tive
ard really the of teaching valuable essoos to al
who COZ gre gate st Them rs ali should in the sicioiyof
the places " here they srs had, a'd each vicausx
sbou d sim TO excel every other Then no one would
feel call upon to apologize was the case at the
present, for the meagerDess OF The show
There IL something needed bes'de the premium lia
to csl the rich products of the county. S)mzthag
II needed tn popusrize the County Agricultural 81.
ciey that the people will become exhibitor, Is we'd
a. visitors
Lit every promoent farmer In Wsstcbsstsr CouuH
ray TO himself, am going to take bold OF this bus-
zee a. help nste ny snow worthy of the name q
an Az i utursl Fair of Westchestsr COMFY" and
tbeb Tie Fairs will do us rome good and gain sous
Ct, dit; at present they do not.
At the present Fair there lie respectable thcw Of
woIkir goxeD, but not one-haf large s could be
a..uvr d. rnff H..
several psirs which are valued at 5000 the psir Oas
Of tbess pairssy year old naive red oxen-weghsi.
upon the Fair ground sales, $3.50 pounds Aaot1ee
ratr Of Connecticut Devots. rot over two-hirds ~
large four years old cost the present owaer $50 is
Siripg. TIE workiDg-oxen, made up 10 striags By
different towns formed the most attractive feature Of
the show.
Of fat cattle the show vas almost contemplate,
when it is considered hat this Couoty has grsst
her Of ire fhstt biDocks in the couatry. Tnsre wn
one rather remarkable pair of native oxen, xasd BY
Mr Horton of Newcastle which have only besn out
Of the ,,ks since last Spring, snd fed four quartz each
Of meal for about three montbs For tbs amount Of
es ding they are as ins and large pair as We ever
sac We judge them 10 be about hIEbloo3 Durha ns
There were 70 o'her fat hu'iocks perhaps ten Az
told whers there should have been several hundrto,
sGd probably would he If these meetings were really
fairs for buying and selling, as well ss showing
csttIe.
OF sheep the show was absolutely conte npho.e-
no a. msn, in puober 90 The fa bullocks Yet thus Is
one OF the beat eoant-s tn State for sheep go ~iog
and coul mott protsby fatten ten Thousand Dead u
sb-ep every y.sr for the city ID .rke
OF pigs a. d poultry there might have been eooushto
stock one fam bot naDy fsrm Ia the conotry osd
sho u a bette, herd of cows We poucsi thee cows
said 10 lave me at bbth and u fe v sezg good
or do Du tane ard one impor cd Aldermen GOV. ana
one im ortsd bo called lderny, near black In color.
Hence we doubted the pnrty If his bio d.
There v ere on exhibition a few god horses and o
or. nj q spy god among the visitors
or fruit par icularly sppts the sho wa hsn 'sone,
ard 50 il s in every orchard along the Hsrlem Rosd.
There YVES the usual show Of big 90 aasbe~ caobages
tur, p beets The latter proving that the owoers
don know the value Of subsope and understanding.
~ grains, the show was extre nelly peager. We
did s.s one basket of fine yellow ears Of Indian corn.
u would have delighted Us to have seen huadred
baskets full, and Of all the varieties gro IN In the
unity, and heard how each was gro 60, and learned
which ya iety is the most valuable and what s, and
What ode Of cultivation produces the best resols
The implementsbow was very good one. 90 far ~
II goes advertisement for the manufacturers and
enables people to agricultural machines such
ss they have not seen before For our own part, we
saw straw and salk-cutter, little different from
any noticed before which we liked very mach IL 10
called the "T.h graph" and appears 10 have been
patented two years ago. by MsssrsL Wilson Of hsriss
burg, Penn One of the larges, sined of shs knd o.
cutters would DO frst-rate machine for cusanS w
small brush for fuel. - -
ey had very fine audience Of men emo womsa "
listen TO his ADDRESS.
William Kelly. William +. Allen, wilns ..t " ~.
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