TRANSACTIONS

OF THE

NEW-YORK

STATE AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY,

TOGETHER WITH AN

ABSTRACT OF THE PROCEEDINGS

OF THE

COUNTY AGRICULTURAL SOCIETIES.

VOL. III: 1843.

ALBANY :

PRINTED BY CARROLL AND COOK, PRINTERS TO THE ASSEMBLY.

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1844.

CONTENTS OF THIS VOLUME.

TRANSACTIONS OF THE STATE AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY,

&c.

Page

REPORT of the Agricultural Committee of the Assembly,..

i-viii

Remarks of Ex-President Van Buren,

Report on Field-crops,..

Report on Essays,......

ANNUAL REPORT of the State Agricultural Society,

Communication from Jas. S. Wadsworth, ex-president,...

CATTLE SHOW AND FAIR of the State Agricultural Society, for 1843,....

Report of Examining Committees at the State Fair,.

Trial of Plows at that Fair,................

Address of John P. Beekman at the State Fair,

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5

7

19

29

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61

64

72

73

75

78

PROCEEDINGS of the Annual Meeting of the State Agricultural Society,

Report of the late Corresponding Secretary,

95

Report of the Treasurer, (brief abstract)

Resolution respecting Essays at Annual Meetings,..

96

98

Agricultural books for the School-District Libraries,...

Publication of collection of the Prize Essays of the Society,

98

99

Election of Officers and location of State Fair for 1844,..

ANNUAL ADDRESS, by J. W. Knevels, before the State Agricultural Society, in

PRIZE ESSAYS AND OTHER PAPERS for 1843,..

Engravings of Insects most injurious to Farmers and Gardeners,......

Treatise on Insects injurious to Field-crops, Orchards, Gardens and Domes-

tic Animals, by Willis Gaylord,..

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102

On the Introduction and Culture of New Agricultural Products, by John J.

Thomas of Wayne county,..

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175

On the cultivation of Dyer's Madder in America, by M. B. Bateham of

Monroe,....

On Improved Breeds of Cattle best adapted to this Country, by Benj. P.

Johnson of Oneida,......

192

On the Introduction of Cattle from the Scottish Highlands, by Sanford

Howard of Albany,

195

iv

Page.

Engravings of Highland Bull and Cow, .

On the Diseases of Insects injurious to the Wheat Crop, by John J. Thomas,

Engravings of the Rust and other diseases in Wheat,........

195-199

201

210

Report of experiments in cultivating various kinds of Wheat, by Rawson

Harmon of Monroe county, •••••

217

Report of experiments in the manufacture of Cornstalk Sugar, by M.

Adams of Monroe county,..........

232

THE GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF NEW-YORK, in its influence on the Agricultural

and other industrial interests of the State,.......

Engravings illustrative of the foregoing subject, interspersed between

pages,

251-350

241

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TRANSACTIONS OF COUNTY AGRICULTURAL SOCIETIES.

EXTRACTS from some of the Addresses delivered at County Fairs and Cattle

Shows,

Remarks of Lieut. Gov. Dickinson, in Queens county, on the importance of Ag-

riculture in its influence on Social and Political Welfare,......

Remarks of Wm. P. Van Rensselaer, President of Rensselaer County Agricul

tural Society, on the Defects and Destinies of American Agriculture,.....

Remarks of F. J. Betts, President of Orange County Society, on the Influence

of Science in ennobling the Practice of Farming, ...

Remarks of Benj. P. Johnson, President of Oneida County Society, on the Pub-

lic Policy in reference to Agriculture,

Remarks of Edmund Kirby, President of Jefferson County Society, on the Ef-

fects of Legislative Beneficence towards the Agricultural Societies,

Remarks of T. C. Peters, President of the Genesee County Society, on the

Rights and Duties of American Farmers,...

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355

355

368

380

391

403

411

Remarks of John P. Beekman, President of Columbia County Society, on the

Profitable Cultivation of Clay Lands,

418

Remarks of Daniel Lee, Member of Assembly, at the Erie County Fair, on the

Pleasures and Profits of Science in connexion with Practical Agriculture,.

Remarks on the General Results of the Fairs for 1843, by Luther Tucker, late

Recording Secretary, ...

425

435

CONDITION OF AGRICULTURE in several Counties and Districts of the State (see

Staten Island-Agriculture of Richmond County, by S. Akerly,

Long Island-Manures used upon the Island, by Wm. Ketcham,

Horticulture in Western New-York, by P. Barry,................

ANNUAL REPORTS of County Agricultural Societies,

Introductory remarks on the Importance of Organization by means of

State and County Societies, by H S. Randall, late Corresponding Secre-

tary, now a Vice-President of the State Agricultural Society,...

Onondaga County Agricultural Society,.

539

With a paper and engraving on the Improved Geddes Harrow,....
And an Essay on the General Management of Farms,.....

550

552

Cayuga County Agricultural Society,.

560

Broome County Agricultural Society,

574

576

579

579

581

582

583

584

586

Tioga County Agricultural Society,
Suffolk County Agricultural Society,
Scoharie County Agricultural Society,.
Saratoga County Agricultural Society,-
Orleans County Agricultural Society,
Niagara County Agricultural Society,
Madison County Agricultural Society,,
Jefferson County Agricultural Society,.
Herkimer County Agricultural Society,...
Genesee County Agricultural Society,
Wyoming County Agricultural Society,....
Erie County Agricultural Society,....
Delaware County Agricultural Society,
Cortland County Agricultural Society,..
Cattaraugus County Agricultural Society,
Chatauque County Agricultural Society,.
Washington County Agricultural Society,,
Dutchess County Agricultural Society,
Ulster County Agricultural Society,....
Tompkins County Agricultural Society,
Monroe County Agricultural Society,

With a paper on Plows and Plowing, &c....

Oswego County Agricultural Society,
Clinton County Agricultural Society,.

592

593

595

596

598

598

601

601

607

617

619

622

625

626

631

638

638

641

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Lewis County Agricultural Society,.

With a paper on Butter-making in Winter,
Livingston County Agricultural Society,..
Steuben County Agricultural Society,
Ontario County Agricultural Society,
Montgomery County Agricultural Society,.
Otsego County Agricultural Society,
Columbia County Agricultural Society,..
Kings County Agricultural Society,...