Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1857-10-28
The State Fair.


porant typographical errors but in other respects
was as accurate as could reasonably have been ex-
pected. In giving so extensive lis: we were COM
pelled by want Of time and space, to omit mention
Of other matters and in ction with the
Fair, and confine ourself to mere enumeration.
The Reporter now returns to the subject to complete
his labors.
And first as to the exhibition. As intimated in
our last, in point Of number the articles contributed
this year hardly up to those of previous years.
but in regard to their quality they were fully equal,
if not superior. TakeE a whole the exhibition
successful one; and it had peculiarly North
Carolina character. Our sister States contributed
little nothing to it, and it served to show, in an
eminent degree, not merely what can be DONE but
what really has been done to advance and improve
the industrial interests of people. Every article
contained in Floral Hail. with the exception perhaps
Of a sewing machine and improved kind Of fire
arms was the result of North Carolina ingenuity,
skill and taste. The articles of needle-work will
challenge competition anywhere, in variety and exc
cution. In articles Of domestic and other manufac-
lures, there were to be found specimens, from
the most delicate and highly finished silks and laces
down to the humble rag carpet or the roughlywoven
negro cloth. The native agate was there, side by
side with the choicest fruits of earth from North
Carolina nurseries; and there too, might be seen,
IN charge Of these things, honest specimens of
North Carolinas daughters.
In glancing around this Hall, the truth flashed
ont that the refining influences Of association and
education were making themselves manifest through.
out the State-assccation unscfsh, for the common
good education pure and holy, springing from the
mother and home. The domestic arts predominated;
but the fruits of the seminary the college, and the
old field school were wanting In a word, pro.
gsess was Enthusiastically stamped upon the whole.
II we turn other branches of the exhibition the
same gratifying evidences apparent. Horticu
ture and agriculture are non regarded as sciences
The discoveries and improvements daily making
not now sighted and passed over Innovations
Improved agricultural implements regarded
in their true light labor sap'ng, money sdring,
CROP SAVING MACHINES 1t is now becoming under
stood that crops exhaust the land of certain elements
necessary to their growth and that having exhaust
ed it of such elements it is fruiteSs expect
tnuance of those crops that all lands do not pos
sess the same elements in the same degree, and that
therefore, are not to expect the same description
Of crop from every description of land !; that crops
themselves vary in their elementary properties and
require lands suited to their growth; that crops not
only extract certain properties from the land, but
also yield it others, which become suited to other
and different crops These things, we say, now
becoming understood, and therefore, rotation Of
crops and the supplying Of the deficient exhaust
cd elements by manures containing them are the or
der of the day. 1t is also clear, that the atnos
phere has important agency in the production of
vegetable matter, and therefore modes of "cul-
tivaton" are adopted and the soil is properly ex-
posed to the air and sun.
And again, it is becoming generally known that
good horse or COW or sheep or pig chicken
be well fed upon what it takes to feed bad one
the utility and value of the the other have
long been understood-and therefore the superior is
fast suppanting the inferior stock. And whilst the
demand for improvements is increasing all sides,
the artizan is becoming stimulated by competition,
and his advance keeps pace with that of the rest.
All these truths are apparent to the most super
fetal observer at our Fairs. The agricultural pro-
ducts exhibited at the recent Fair unmistakable
evidences of them; The quality of the stock in every
department showed very rapid improvement; and
in all branches of handicraf there evidences of
ability for successful competition.
1t would be easy task to single out, justly the
ladies who contributed most to the value and extent
of the exhibition in Floral Hail. We will not make
| the attempt
In the contributions Of stock we may safely name
Dr. Holt, of Davidson and Messrs. Grouse Irvine,
! Lynchburg, Va. In horses, DR.. Strudwck and Mr..
j. Turner, of Orange; Mr.. I. Broadnax, Rocking
ham: Mr.. j. H. Neal, Washington Mr. S OBrien,
Person, and Mr. W. Russell, Caswell. In poultry,
| Mr.. j. Moss, Wake.
In mechanical products, Silas Burns & Co., Wake;
| N. Boyden Son, Salisbury; j. NJ. Towles, Wake;
W. B. Williams, Warren; Jones & Hooker Orange;
| Granville.
| In this enumeration we aude principally to the
number of articles presented by the several contrbu
tors. So much for the exhibition.
| OF the Fair itself, in pccuniary point of view,
| Judging from the numbers in attendance, We would
say it was eminenty successful. The facilities for
reaching it were much improved The various rail-
road companies did every thing in their power to
facilitate travel and the transportation Of articles for
exhibition, and in return for their iberay reaped
an abundant harvest themselves. We learn that
Notwithstanding the great facilities possessed BY the
North Carolina Railroad Company, they were un-
| able to convey all the passengers who sought to
come by that route. By next Fair the Atlantic &
North Carolina Road will be in full operation, and
then we will have stretch of railroad extending
| east and west of over 400 miles, pouring into the
centre its anxious thousands to the States Industrial
School. Thus do internal improvements greatly as
sist not merely in educating the people by bringing
them together to learn and understand their wants,
but are the means of assisting them to give full de