Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1856-10-01
For the Standard
On THE BANK OF THE MUSE,
Sept. 24th, 1856.

81 ~ Sept. oath, 1856,
MEssRs ED1roRs As our annual Fair is now close
BY, Idesire to make few remarks, on the last ex,
hibtion and the approaching one. l have attended
several of your Fairs, and surprised to see, on
every OCCASION SO few natve-stock animals sent for
exhibition; especially two kinds of smaller animals,
that are of less expense in transportation-I mean
sheep and swine. Our North Carolina farmers seem
to think that the common plantation stock are not
desired. Well, this is great mistake. 1t is the
yearly display of the common animals of the farm,
that we all want to examine-brought together from
different parts of the State annually. We then can
tell the progress made in raising such stock.
There are in Cumberland, Johnston, Orange, Gran
vile, and adjoining counties, that have myself seen,
good and valuable breeds of native bred and reared
sheep and hogs that should yearly be sent for ex-
hibition; it is the very thing want to see. Far
mer Thompson wont bring his Sheep because he
thinks farmer Smiths sheep are better than his
Mr.. Smith thinks that Jones's the best in the
whole neighborhood. Jones says he don't care
anything about it-he will go HIMSELF but his sheep
shant;" and thus find empty row of pens
yearly, that should be crowded with the best speci-
mems of common stock in each neighborhoQd. If it
is with the wool growers, it is worse with the
bristles. The Easterncounties, through which the
Railroad runs, produce every year large number
of fine droves of swine; but their owners suppose it
is useless to send up specimens of their droves-"as
every body's will be better than THEIRS Let different
neghborhoods in these pork-raisng counties send
specimen pen, composed of and four or SIX
pigs, with their sire, if you choose-all can then
know what native breeds have been tried and proved
most worthy of the pork raser's attention. But do
not come up to the Fair, and after looking at the
stock on exhibition say, "Well, could have beat
that SOW anyhow, with my wife's old suke;'" but'
bring old suke along with YOU and her interesting
family. Every farmer is more or less pork raiser,
and he may not find it convenient to go into these
various counties, to look at stock scattered over
great extent of country but he wants to see, once
year, the stock of counties he has never visited,
placed along side of some from his own neighbor.
hood, and thus institute an accurate comparison.
1t is great mistake to suppose that these animal
exhibitions gotten up solely for some extraordi-
nary specimen never before seen and perhaps never
again, merely for the sake of gratifying the Gu
riosity of sight-seers, many of our farmers
seem to think. They are intended for practical ben
eft to be derived from the interchange of stock from
different parts Of the State which is generally the
result, thereby producing more thorough crossing
of various stocks Of the farm greatly to its improve
ment and more especially to let people what
sort of stock have proved to be best calculated for
lasting profit to the planters.
There always, at such exhibitions, many kinds
Of articles, in abundance in portion of the
try, that very in another portion and if
farmers will only bring something, however
trfng in ITSELF yet in the aggregate there will be
good show, and on salesday something that every
body wants. We have always seen farmers enough
Out great scarcity OF inc OF tnelr farms,
at each one of our Fairs. Let each one that comes
bring something, whether it is best of the kind
not, makes little difference and there will then be
fair exhibit of the productions Of the State that all
desire to see And there will then be that general
satisfaction expressed by ALL instead of dissatisfac
heretofore, to some extent, been prevalent.
Yours. OLD FARMER.
IT,,
OF QrAcKERY-"O blessed hcalth!" exclaims
Sterne, e" tbs thou who "enargest the soul and op-
all its powers to receive instruction and to
lish virtue. lie that has thee has little else to
to wish for he that is wrctched to want "thee
wants thing with thee The truth Of this apos
trophc every one must acknowledge; poor Sterne
spoke from sad experience. And yet familiar as
every man is with the truth herein expressed, no
mortal could compute the members who ruin them
selves in body, mind, and fortune by neglectng to
employ the proper remedies when health fails. How
is this neglect to be remeded! The evil has become
so consecrated by age, that the who undertakes
to amend it requires ordinary hardihood such q
man is Professor Holloway.
The honest laborer in the cause of humanity finds
sadder Encouragement, than liz the complacent
indifference with which people prefer rather to
dure long existing evil than to incur the trouble
has become, the difficult it is to remove it.
This is true in especial manner of the art of heal
ing, it was known and practiscd before the advent
of this wonderful genius whose mission has been to
re-establish the treatment of human ailments in q
rational way
One by one the venerable abuses that have dis
graced the past disappearing, and among the rest
the that have crcpt into medical practice have
got their dismssion papers, and arc obliged, to use
a vulgar phrase, TO cut and run" Where, it may
be asked, are the proofs? Proofs! Why there is
one great, patent, palpabie fact, which has been
starting the world in the face for the last twenty
years, and working its way through popular pre-
JUDGE into popular favor with success which is
the most unquestionable evidence of its power as
proof. The medicines of Professor Holloway have
been silently but powerfully eftecting change in
the science of physic which the world itself has
begun wonder at. 1t is well known that the causes
of all the disease and suiferngs to which people
subject very few, although their indications may
be numerously varied. The old plan of of curing
disease by affecting their results without affect
ing their primary causes Professor Holloway in
itatcd mode of treatment by the discovery of
his Pills and Ointment, which, whilst Immediately
graphing with the ultimate symptoms, reach also to
the seat of the disease and eradicate the first causes
thus destroying all subsequent liability to similar
similar affections. We do not mean to praise these
Pills and Ointment. We conne ourselves to starting
facts, and perfectly satisged that no eulogy is
needed. They speak for themselves.
Mobile Register.
The DEMOCRACY OF SToKEs.-We are pleased to
see the spirit which animates the Democracy of old
Stokes They seem to have zone into the canvosa