Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1857-10-14
The State Fair.

We presume our City will be densely pack
ed next week, with people from all parts of
the State. It should be the Farmers reyel
when they should be present with horses,
cattle, and every variety of home industry,
to encourage each other in the glorious labor
of tilling the earth and making it produce
the largest yield, aoithout empoperishinga. 1t
ia puAllana-srLA.- think what human
skill and human toll can accomplish-how
it can indeed make tthe wilderness to blossom
as the rose > and bring out from the exhaus-
ted field of broom sedge the golden harvests
of waving grain.
It is expected that this will be the best
State Fair we have had. Let US hope it may
be so. Let vi hope that the coming one may
be even better than this for we like progress
in whatever may effect or advance the inter-
ests of human labor.
A contemporary has most truthfully remark
ed, that it has long been evident to every OBJ
serving mind, that farming conducted on an
improved plan or with some regard to scien-
tifc principles, was the great desideratum
which our State needed to give an impetus
to her prosperity to restrain the spirit Of
emigration, and build up towns and cities in
our midst not less splendid nor less a~f1uent
than those which have sprung up on the bar
rem shores of the Northeastern States
There can be no object more commendablt
to the patriot or philanthropist than the de
y%elopment of the physical resources of hi
country, for with this will go hand in han,
her progress. 1t will enable a thriving yeo
many to receive the blessings of education
to appreciate moral purity and substantial
worth to live in temperance and comfort
without the degeneracy of luxury, the ours
of curses-ignorance, and the temptation an,
humiliation of perjury and want. And
is on this class that the greatness of a eour
try depends:
princes and Lords may flourish, or may fade
A breath can make them, as a breath has made
But a bold peasantry, their country's pride
/ When once destroyed, can never be supplied
} 1t is then for this purpose-the diffusion
agricultural knowledge and a love of agr
cultural pursuits-that the Society was O
ganized and the Fair instituted. To me
together and compare thesresults of montl
of toll and solicitude to have a new eners
e created in the bosom, to rival the e~xcellen
of others, to feel a vivid interest in somethir
. more remunerative, congenial and pacific tn;
o the noisy arena of politics, and more honor
BILE and ennobling than the chicanery
speculation to enjoy-for there is to t
farmer no keener pleasure-the exhibition
.e ingenious and useful implements; mechanic
and agricultural, Of articles indicative of
nestle economy, elegance and industry,
4 blooded animals, from the trim courser in
1T pride to the priceless milch cow with extf
h ded udders in a word, to acquire and g
; a zest and relish for agricultural pursuits
4 these are some of the desirable objects a
effects of the agricultural reunions, VIII
should commend them to all, who wish
s. expect permanent improvement.
BG-Mr. Brown furnishes the Certifc
I OF his ~neighbors, who have tested his rer
r.: dies for the cure of Bots in Horses, and tn
n unite in declaring it a speedy and positl
cure for this malady which has swept off
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