The Massachusetts spy, and Worcester County advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1825-1831, 1827-09-26
WORCESTER:
WEDNESDAY,, SEPT. 90, 1927.
CATTLE SHOW.


- CATTLE SHOW.
We trust that the comparative silence witt
which the husbandman's anniversary has an
proached us this year, is not Indicative of an,
diminution of the interest which has heretofor,
been felt forit. For the ploughing match, thai
interesting portion of the exhibition, as great
number OF entries as usual has been made
We have heard nothing in particular as to the
probable goodness of the show of stock, but as
the number of fine animals in the county is
every year increasing, and the inducements to
bring them forward for exhibition have not d.
Ininished, we believe that an exhibition at least
equal, and we trust superior, to any former one
may safely be calculated upon.
The editor of the Connootiout Mirror, who
has peculiar way of saying good things, has
the following remarks, which although adapted
to the meridian of Hartford WILL as the Alma
nae makers say, serve without essential va
ration for this place.
"We beg leave to remind our Agricul-
tural friends and others, that the Sd and
4th OF Oct. 1.-THE days of the Cattle Show
and Fair are at hand, and if they would
doJustice to the occasion, they must +" be
up and doing.'
We can tell them, that sitting at ease
till the day of the exhibition, and on that
day to come into Hartford, with Lady at
each elbow, may make show-but it does
not make Cattle Show; nor will thrum-
ing the Piano and dancing the Boutanger,
(although fair enough) ever make FAIR.
To make Cattle Show, men must raise
live stock, and enough of it, and of suffi-
cient variety and they must take it to
some favorable spot for exhibition. And
to make Fair, the ladies must make but
ter and spin tow and fax, and weave them
and these, that is to say, their butter and
their cloth, and we would add their stock
lngs, and their flannel, and their carpeting,
and their hearth rugs, and even their grass
oonnets,-must undergo public eXamin-
a'lon' ane Committee must sit in judg
Now let our country citizens be up and
doing. Let the brethren, not only see to
it that they have bulls, and cows, and fat
ted "two years old,' but let them resolve
and prepare to driUe them. Our good old
South Green is once in a year gratuitously
offered, for The accommodation of all
"horned kind"-and do let it therefore,
this year, contain every thing horned
land enough thereby which our farmers
raise.
And let the sisters see to it-that the
fruits of their industry, ale in preparation
for exhibition at the StateHouse.
Let them prepare their butter for inspec-
tion-and by the way, if it were put
down. in earthen pots-we would advise
them to see to it that it be not " frowy."
Their cheese also-may it be ready, and
may it be good. Let it be neither too salt
or too strong-and let it contain proper
proportion of skimm'd milk, and cream
because the former renders cheese hard
and impervious to shippers.
Picked Peppers, also, we shall look for
on the day of the Fair, together with ar
ticles of embroidery! and Diaper will be
much in demand, as several are about to
. I've marrioa';A and many who have passed
the marriage ordeal, have young children
on hand! We will only add, in regard to
tho sisterhood, that as it has hitherto con-
tIibuted much to the preservation and even
the prosperity of our annual fall exhibit
tion-the Injunction, be up and DOING"
will be enough to insure, (for this season.
its very cordial and desirable support"