Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1853-10-26

| THE MODEL FARM THE WEST. We had the pleas
few weeks since of visiting the farm of Dr. VIM.
r. Holt, in Davidson county. Both the owner and
the farm have been known to US for some time by
reputation but different from most descriptions of
persons and things they really excelled our most
sanguine expectations This farm is situated in that
part of the county called the Jersey Settlement which
is celebrated for being by nature the most productive
soil in the State This, like most of the farms near
it. has been in cultivation for long time, and was
when DIR. Holt purchased, very much exhausted
many parts of it scarcely producing enough to pay
the expense of cultivating. But it presents very
different appearance this time for every field is in
high state of cultivation, which has been effected by
thorough drainage, deep plowing and correct APP
picatiOn of such manures each crop required for
its nourishment-
But the appearance of the farm did not contribute
so much to enjoyment the fine stock of vari-
Gus kinds, which saw The impression general
ly is, that we have fine stock in North Carolina
that they all of the "raw bone" breed-but this
is great mistake which may easily be corrected Ey
travelling over the State. There are upon Dr. Hollis
farm more than one hundred head of thorough bred
Devon cattle, and as many more of an improved
stock of sheep, all of which look finely, they have
fine pasturage to graze upon in the summer and the
best of hay to feed upon in the winter, though
CARDS shetering, they have Jared like native
stock, which goes clearly to prove that the Devon
the kind of stock which will best suit climate
and general treatment of stock. We Devon
Bull in the herd, which, for symmetry of form and
thorough blood, cannot be excelled in the whole
Union. He is descendant of the celebrated Milkcn
In the herd OF Mr. Bloomfield, in England. We think
that may promise the farmers quite treat in the
exhibition of some specimens of stock from the farm
of Dr. Holt at the State Fair in October and great
treat still in v.rsing with the Doctor himself
He is what call really scientific practical farmer
well informed upon every inject in connection with
agricultural Improvement. Farms 7's Journal
INSTITUTION OF STATE FAIRS We are now in the
midst of an age of progress, upward and onward "
seems to be the motto by which the whole country
is governed. Every possible means is in use to
der this emphatically fast age, and the man who
daes by the way side to mark the progress things
and calculate what next to do, may well set him
self down antiquarian and "sand out of the way"
for his foster neighbors Our brethren of the South
at time the first people of the age, but the
spirit has dused itself throughout the universal
Yankee Nation" and of the South who have so
long slumbered at post, have finally awakened
to eXertlon, and begun to appreciate numerous
resources, and already mark the difference.
The institution of State fairs have contributed more
than any other thing to bring out the great
ness of our people at the South The capacity to
produce specimens of handiwork equal to any ever
made in the North, has never been wanting The
inventive power much in the mind of the North
Carolnian or Virginan, in that of the native of
Connecticut, but stimulous needed to bring it
out No opportunity offered before to make a
public exhibit of what we are capable, and hence
eXertion. The field has been opened, however, and
in short time we may expect to rival our brethren
at the North in every branch of the arts, sciences
and mechanics. A few years since, and who, unless
he be the merest visionary, would have thought ola
State fair in North Carolina Or Virginia? And now
to walk through the grounds of the North Carolina
State Fair and behold the myrads of articles that O.
pen up from every departments to feast the eyes up
on and astonish the beholder-Agr the fine
arts, the mechanics and science all represented
and it cannot but infuse joy into the bosom of ev-
cry citizen of the Old North State he gazes on the
display she makes, the same sentiment which her
"Gaston" has rendered immortal The Old North |
State forever" 1
In a few days. like exhibition will be opened in
our own beloved odd Commonwealth - and may |
we not expect great things from her fair daughters
and sturdy sons? There is star among the con-
steliation which can show out with purer light; |
and from the east and from theswest from north
to south, from where the A1eghanies' heights /
are shrowded in the blue ether, to where the
Atlantic waves the golden sands of the eastern
shore and to the western borders of the State let
the lever rage and show to the nnionsand the world
that rgina viii not be beaten in this great de-
noustration. of the age. Petersburg Express.
ToBAcco IN Missouri The ST Louis News says
The crop OF tobacco now maturing viii doubtless be
The smallest raised the West for several years It
the Missouri crop for 1858 at 600 hhs
In So It was 600 hlids, IN 1852 81 600 hhds