The Daily Nashville true Whig. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1851-1855, 1855-09-15
Agricultaral and Meensnical rsirs.

The season for Agricultural and Mechanical
Fairs having arrived it may be well enough
to remind our readers of the great Importance
of these gatherings One of our agricultural
exchanges very truly remarks that farmers are
not migratory, and therefore lose the advanta-
ges gained by the experience of others, unless
they annually devote portion of their time
TO visiting public fairs. Merchants, mechan-
les and manufacturers are readily informed of
all the current improvements of the day con-
nected with their various vocations, but the
farmer is required during a large portion of
the year to remain within the boundary of
his own farm, and is, Therefore, restricted to
the results of his own experiments, except SO
far as he may find those of others recorded in
the agricultur i journals. These alone seem
to be insuficientfor many of his purposes
he requires to meet and converse personally
with farmers from different parts of the coun-
try. lie also requires TO see specimens of the
products of Others, and learn from those
producers who do not write for journals their
modes of cultivation. BE should see all the
improved tools of the day, and these are not
only to be met with at fairs, but they may be
there seen in operation, so that he can judge
fairly of their effects, value, etc. Indeed, an
agricultural fair is to the farmer what the ex-
change is TO a merchant, and it is scarcely pos
sible for him to post himself up even with the
day without visiting these exhibitions. The
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ture are here to be met with, and addresses
are often delivered, which fully compensate for
the expense and time spent in travel.
Where else can the farmer see so large a COL
lection of improved stock, and, indeed, how
else can he supply himself with best speci-
mems for his own farm2 Beyond the interest
of the farmer, it is a duty he owes TO society
TO encourage, by his presence, such exhibitions
as tend to elevate his craft. He should re-
member that his vocation is more important
than all Others, and therefore, as a citizen, he
should give it his best thought and entire .exer-
tons.
No one has ever visited fair without learn
ing some new practical fact, or at least with
out seeing variety Of result which would 60
FAR to endorse or refute those they were trying.
II is impossible for any intelligent and obser-
wing farmer to visit fair without receiving
some benefit He can either obtain some i'm
proved implement, some valuable animal, OF
some improved seed, as compared with those he
already possesses.
No class of men require association more
than the farmers their vocation generally de.
bars them from mixing with the world at large
The remedy is to be found at fairs. AT such
places they meet with others who, like them
selves, are in search OF novelties, and thus they
may exchange ideas, form new and valuable
acquaintance, and above all, make new re-
solves which win add new impetus to their flu.
lure success. A few dollars SO spent is not
badly invested. We hope, therefore, that all
interested will make it a point TO attend the
State Fairs to be held in October The benit'
accruing to the mechanic and manufacturer o,
no less importance than those derived by the
Farmer.