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vine AiiATon. , 0 i noted ; and !n short, our land ho raf.de lo approxi mate to that condition of prosperity which !s every f .where Apparent to the eye in those States where such Fairs nr J common, even though less favoured in -o:l and climate .t.jan ours. - We earnestly call upon the people of this county nnd town, to bestir themselves, and maV:e the com ing and every successive Fair of tho Cumberland Agricultural Society, superior to its predecessor fit the number and quality of the articles exhibited, and the number of visiters. Let no one who has put his hand to the plow look back. y Among those who .are vastly benefitted by these they are held. This fad, and any one who will A!Vn hi rp must" soft Ihnf. it ia a firf 1wmi!1 In- duce every individual in tbojse towns to contribute Jibcrally to their getting up and, proper accommoda tion. Look at what occurrcd'in Boston on one day of tho fair there. 87,716 pcrsong cane into the city from the country and other towns on lha,day j and 82,103 lcft.daring the .day ; h owing that 5GGl Grangers who came in the morning stayed ever night. ( Probably no individual ;of that immense throng left the city without, spending some money f and-some of them must, have spent a great dcalf.for on that day the receipts of country bank notes at the Suffolk bank (depositC3 of merchants, &,) were $360,000 more than the. largest sum ever paid-in previously.tiuring.any one day, ; . Of the persons .who came to Boston on that dayy 23,933 were by railroad 24,002 were in vehicles; nnd the remainder, 37C86, came into the city on foot .The numher of vehicles that came into the town was CGGD. , , , divides this recant case of money making in Bos ton by a grand di3ptvy,4ha Baltimore Patriot men- .tions thfrfoilowinc: When .Boston, a,, few years since, got u'jf her fa mou3 Ilailroad celebration, the lavish expenditure rcquircd'to sustain' worthily to bold a glorification, created no little' surprise nu;on -citizens of other Statc3,.who imagined, that tho.godd people of the old Bay State, vtfre certainly paying remarkably dear for their whistle.- -But tho acute descendants of the Puritans knew' perfectly wellwhat they were abouti To have made a local affair of Jt-wiudlng up the day by a cozy dinner to he dbcusscd by the nunicipar authorities, the officers, of -railway cor porations, and a few selected guests, would have" becii to have thrown just so much noncy away j nvhile to spend largely,. tocxtend their invitations to nil quarters of the American Union, and to make their arrangements on so grand a scale as would se cure tho attendance of President Fillmore" and his suite fro "Washington, and Lord Iflgin and his of ficial attendants from Canada, wa3 a t peculation which would not only justify a large outlay, but would secure, in its result?, a brave array of figures on the profit side of the account, So judged tho nesi men of Boston, and they judged widely. If we would make money," said they, " out of this affair we . must spend money j" and, acting upon this sage conclusion, they opened their rmrsc strings, threw their hearts into the measure, called upon the journal of the country to take note of their doing, ani'succecded In handsomely fulfilling all their cal culatioaV, 1 ' '. -i ' DxF.r pLOCcnixa, Again. Sir: I rcadacomniu nication in the X. VTribnne, rcfening to the action of the judgc3 on ploughing at the Westchester County Fair. I have; been, myself, the past sum ner, a martyr to tho cause, of Deep Ploughing, as follows : . k Th (;trm on which we are at work has been un der an exhausting system of cultivation for a long senci of years; with the exception of the Inst four , or five, during which time it 1ms laid idle. AVcll : bur neighbora found ,np fault , with our picking up stone, nor 6ur hauling out manure, but when wo first put on a heavy. spun, of horses and aheavyyoko .of cattle to a Wayne County piow Xo. 5 (two sizes larger, than 4licy use,) , and commenced ploughing fnr corn, then they began to pity our infatuation. MVhyl said one ot,t them to me, "I would not have you plough my ground in that manner if you wouiu piuw li ior noiuuig-uirning up mai com ton tight or ten inches deep is. enough .to ruin any land. Four or five inches deep "is plenty for corn." But when, ridicule (for arguments they had none) did not'eonvince rue that I was wrong, they gave upiriy corn for lost. . , : i AVcll, the result was this : the season being very :wet, corn on Ehallpw ploughed land came fonvard very slowly, looking quite yellow and sickly. Ve hoed burs the second tiuic before .their? was largo enough to hoe once, though planted at the samo time; and the same, ratio held good through the en tire season: so that an early frost, which came just as WA i A.rt '.titltrirw tin rl f t nr 1 1 tlini.a in 4imA (a nit iil i.ii.tj liiiiLiiiL Liw diiu .: tiL LiiLiia ill nun: ..... 11111 a- " ' , -. ." - nearly one-half of the crop. Our crop is, I should think, fully one-third heavier, and perhaps one-halt, .in addition'to bcinf uU,out of , the frost. ; Xext spring wc intend putting jn a subsoil plow, (which pattern do yqu thjnk the best?) .as our sail is clayey, with a hard, lean ubsoil. I expccttour affectionate friends will tender us each a straight jackot in that case ; Yours truly Greil rithd,'Sa!quehanrii Co P., Oct, 0, 185.
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