19. Have you succeeded in eradicating the weeds from your farm, if so, by what methods, and what weeds are most troublesome?

DOMESTIC ANIMALS.

20. How many oxen, cows, young cattle and horses do you keep, and of what breeds are they?

21. Have you made any experiments to show the relative value of different breeds of cattle or other animals for particular purposes, and with what results?

22. What do you consider the best and cheapest manner of wintering your cattle, as to feed, watering and shelter?

23. How much butter and cheese do you make annually, from what number of cows, and what is your mode of manufacture?

24. How many sheep do you keep? Of what breed or breeds are they? How much do they yield per fleece, and what does the wool bring? How many of your sheep usually produce lambs and what number of sheep are usually reared? How much will your sheep or lambs sell for per head to the butcher?

25. What do you consider the best and cheapest manner of wintering your sheep, as to food, watering and shelter? How many in proportion to your flock (if any) do you lose during the winter?

26. How many swine do you keep, of what breed are they, how do you feed them, at what age do you kill them, and what do they weigh when dressed?

27. What experiments have you made to show the relative value of potatoes, turnips, and other root crops, compared with Indian corn, or other grain, for feeding animals, either for fattening or for milk.

FRUIT.

28. What is the number of your apple trees? Are they of natural or grafted fruit, and chiefly of what varieties?

29. What number and kind of fruit trees, exclusive of apples, have you? and what are among the best of each kind?

30. What insects have attacked your trees, and what method do you use to prevent their attacks?

31. What is your general management of fruit trees?

32. What other experiments or farm operations have produced interesting or valuable results?

FENCES, BUILDINGS, &C.

33. What is the number, size, and general mode of construction of your farm, buildings, and their uses?

34. What kind of fences do you construct? What is the heighth and length of each kind, and their cost and condition? Have you constructed any wire fence? If so, what has been its cost, and what its advantages, and how made?

35. To what extent are your various farming operations guided by accurate weighing and measuring? And to what degree of minuteness are they registered by daily accounts?

36. Do you keep regular farm accounts? Can you state the annual expense in improving your farm, and the income from it, with such precision that you can at the end of the year strike an accurate balance of the debt and credit? Would not this practice conduce very much to close observation, careful farming, and in the end much improve your system, as well as better your fortune?

37. Give the annual receipts and expenditures on your farm, specifying each.

The persons making applications for premiums on farms, must submit written answers to these questions, which will be furnished by the Secretary, to all who may apply for them.

The statements to be forwarded to the Recording Secretary at Detroit, on or before the first day of December, 1853.

THE FIFTH ANNUAL FAIR.

The Fifth Annual Fair of the Michigan State Agricultural Society was held at Detroit, on the Cas and Jones' farms, between the Chicago and Grand River roads, and west of Third street, on the 28th, 29th and 30th days of September, 1853.

The Election of Officers for 1854, took place on the Fair Ground, at half past 3 o'clock P. M. of the 30th, when the following officers were duly elected:

President-GEORGE C. MUNRO, Jonesville, Hillsdale county. Treasurer-H. H. BROWN, Detroit, Wayne county.

Secretary-J. C. HOLMES, Detroit, Wayne county.

Executive Committee-Jay R. Monroe, Paw Paw, Van Buren county; Samuel M. Bartlett, Lasalle, Monroe county; John Starkweather, Ypsilanti, Washtenaw county; C. W. Green, Farmington, Oakland Co.; G. V. N. Lothrop, Detroit, Wayne county; John Miller, Adrian, Lenawee county: A. Y. Moore, Schoolcraft, Kalamazoo county; Payne K. Leach, Utica, Macomb county; Charles Dickey, Marshall, Calhoun Co.; Thomas Clark, Lapeer, Lapeer county.