New-York tribune., 1868-02-15
WINTER MEETING OF TIE NEH-fOHh
STATE AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY.

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Vionslv announced. The Treasurer, Luther II.
Tnckcr made his report, from which we learn that
nrevous TO tho year 1862 the Legislature voted to the
Agricultural Societies OF his State 5000 year
aimee then $4,000 year. The share of the State
Society was frst $780, and next $S57 year. which is
all this Society has received except IN the way of APP
propratons for specific objects DR.. Fitch The Stale
Enfomologist was paid 5000 year until Uetoptr
last. when his salary was advanced To Sl,~D. ~ ~
1862 5000 WAS appropriated 90 the enconIageneht .,
flax machinery but 10 claim having been piesehiWv" ~
deemed worthy of award. the money WIN r. lno ~
terest of $3 A. was returned to the state treasury,
In 1858, g. $50 voted IN securing
of State Interests at the international EAnip,eon
only SOS S were expended. when ,no e H. ,oor, ~
devoted The balance to improvements OF te % iUul ~ ~
the SOcietys Library. Ia leto' s'uOO "eio ~ ,J ~
hold national Trial Of farm implements Wnlch @ uIu
not take place till the following YEAR, Nheu ons
bTanch embracing harvesting implements was held
ot Atl,urni and in 1861. another branch OF nipple
ments of tllage took place at Utlca vi o the sum ~
voted AZ So 500 remain. In 1866. $1,000, ana III
isl,7 sj OCd NOR, vas voted to investigate the cause
of abortion Of COWS, and S4OD mas been drawn on
account Of the same a Commission was lhsttnIeu
and it has been actively engaged IN the prosecutions
This comprises all the special appropriations made
by the Legislature To the State Agricultural SOlety
The ONLY resources of the society ara for annual
md life menh nhelsips. the sums received at its an
nnal exhibitions, the general State appropriation
1880 yearl. few occasional donations. sales OF
duplicates tor It's library mlseelaneous and interest
on money on hand. From these sources, the total
average income for ten Years has been $l45ll %
DeductiE the expenses the Society has accumulated
n small fund of Sl2 so 81, by the help of which it
hopes at some future time 10 be able TO add more
attractions It's exhibitions, or materially TO re-
duce the cost AT any yearly exhibition the above
fund is liable almost entirely TO be swept away by
reason of unlavOnllc weather. This event actually
has taken place dnring the last ten years, SIX OF
which We're favorable. and four nniavora1le.. tor
this most obvious the society should not ex-
pend when n receives, in the place where talr
Is to be held indeed the holding of fair at any
proposed place adds so largely 70 the general busl
mess of fita4 tKg1 he
more than the Society be. since the receipts at
the gates only small fraction of what the visit
expend upon other and great variety of objects
In the employment of assistants it has been argued
that they should be selected from the inhabitants OF
the plane where the fair is held. This, to limited
extent is DONE but generally the assistants come
from every part of the State and they are selected
for their fitness aud experience beside the lnhaOt
ants, during fair, are almost always overwhelmed
with business arising from a sudden influx OF many
thousand stran gers.
THIS report was followed by one from the Secre-
tary, in which the death OF ex-President John A.
King was cloquently referred to- and other matters
of general interest touched upon.
After this the selection of officers for the ensuing
year was commenced. President-Thomas II. Faile.
r. Y City Vice -Presidents-John Hayens. Samuel
Thorn Adm Thayer, Milo lngolsbe. Horace Lewis.
WIN. NJ. Ely. h. T. f. Poster, aud George A. Moore.
Corresponding Sccretary-B. i. Johnson OF Albany;
Recording Secretary-IhOmas l.. Harrison, ST. Law
renee: Treasurer-LutheT Ill. Tucker, Albany. EX-
ecutiyo ommitee-RIehard Clineh, Jas. Geddes, ).
T. Taber l.. ID. Mitchell VIM. NJ. Burr A. IL. Cornell,
B. L. Angel ard l.. d. Wing
President GeE. Id1ioks 5ddress.-In the evening
the out going presiding officer delivered an Interest
nQ address The past has been dryer than has
been known for many years to the wholesale destTuc
hon of your forests. But the cause The short reign
ofYankee enterprise. LEGISLATION should be invoked
TO save the forests of the AdirOndac Mountains
During six years there have been many changes; !;
cheese and butter factories have changed dairy
inGustry. aud the system OF labor has changed. No
longer is 1t possible to get the help of young men
horn in America and skilled labor is thing the
most difficult to be obtained. Stlll, we owe much to
foreign labor but time Is requred 10 make u sElI
great diticulty lies in the fact that the most OF
foreign 1abOrers are young men without the ties
or interests of home. The best remedy
would seem to he the adoption OF the cot
tage system. Whenever it is introduced the
farmers wife will be relived from the care Of pro-
viding for abOrers and she will seonre assistance
from the friends Of the cottages. BY this means the
labOrer will be dignifed in having home, and he
will be attached TO the soil. Wherever this system
has been introduced il has given satisfaction. Only
few of our children following IN our footsteps
The old folks are left alone With falling health and
increasing years many are compelled to sell out the
homestead and to live in village. where 1t Is pos
great aversion to honest toll. Often, IT they
remain the farm, they are more interested
engage In trifing, undig. fled occupations, such
as selling maps, books patent rights, OF even
and habits At the best they seek commercial adven-
lures, and through this means sudden and great
riches Can they not read their fate by the wrecks
Of thousands IN the CITY oi New otk VINO attenpgea
20 quit the farm and engage In snch rfing pursuits
as have been named, or to attempt where thousands
fail, city occupation, they should 10 ashamed.
Whenever labor IN any country IS considered diSh0n-
Orabie the doom of that nation Is sealed. Unti the
idea prevails that labor IS honorable there there
we find country divided into small
estates, and each proprietor Iabors with his own
hands we have happy people; Under small home, home
steads grew mp those people before which the world
trembled when they buekled ON their swords-the
ancient Romans. Look at the large plantations OF
the South. with degraded laboreIs ana you need not
ing 10 their fertility but according TO their liberty
Agriculture is the basis Of the happiness Of State
aud il is the most honorable well the most an
eent of all professions. Year by year hundreds OF
acres Of small fruits are added to supply our city
markets. Fish herdng, thus IN its infancy, Is at
tracing the attention of most intelligent people,
and success is certain if Legislative action can be
secured The speaker referred 10 the great improve
ment Of the HOlbroOk plOw and he dwelt on the
The basis of all good farming OF agricultural ma
chneTy exhibited az our fairs, he SAID IT Is mpos-
sble for any committee owing to the Limited tlme,
edge to pass wellfOunded opinion. lie suggested
that an expert be secured, who shall examine each
important article and repeTt to the subcommittee
cation and manner of holding yearly Fairs, lt IS
doubtful whether the present system Is credit to
the State OF calculated to meet the present require
menta Better results could be obtained by having
three four. or FIVE permanent locations, with build
ings suitably arranged and so constructed as 20 pre-
vent damage TO goods exhibited, and TO present the
best opportunity for display.
This address was listened to with great attention.
1t may be said that the demand for the cottage sys
tenn Is an OutgrOwth of the disinclinatiOn of our
young men to labor and that IT'S results will be to
annihiste the families of the present propretors to
be succeeded by those of the humble foreigner.
The Hon. Elliott c. Cowden then delivered an ora
fion on the Paris Exposition which contained much
information,
abortion IN C0us.-PrOf. j. C. DALTON then read q
paper on this subject, being the results of invest
aatiOns agTeeably to an enactment of tho Legisla-
fure The researches were the most thorough of any
vet made on this subject, and though positive
clusOns were reached. still many theories previously
advanced are shown to have no foundation. Com
mission having been appointed circulars were sent