Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1859-10-04

Geuuga County Fair.

was present last week at the Annual Fair
Of the Geauga County Free Agricultural So
ciety held at Clarido1. This Society is com
posed of the practical farmers of old farming
Geauga and sustained by their voluntary con-
tributions. 1t has no fund and no aid from
any quarter, and its officers rely for its support
upon the willing and reliable yeomanry of the
county.
They have large and commodious Hall,
the lower story fitted up for the exhibition of
vegetables and implements of husbandry, built
at a cost of $1,000, and their grounds are open
and well arranged tor practical purposes They
are demonstrating the utility Of an agricultural
Fair free and open to all, and not mere horse
exhibition and general EOrse race.
Their President, Esq. Lyman, of Chester, is
thrifty intelligent faru er Of the old school,
who knows how to get up good exhibition,
and with the aid of ]. @. Treat, as Marshal,
the thing was got up right, and there was ex-
hibted epervthAg that the soil could be made
to produce and the tools they did it with, to-
gether with good filling up of the ornamental.
had supposed that the frost of last spring
had cut short the vegetable kingdom, so tina
not much of a show could be made, but to my
surprise / found this building Overflowng
with fruits and vegetables and flowers, and Of
the very best quality in abundant qusntities.-
There were squashes from 40.to liz lbs weight,
and pumpkins that would make a Yankee
dream of pumpkin pies when only half asleep,
and potatoes OF the largest size and by the tens
of bushels, and tomatoes, and onions and corn,
| and beets, and carrots, and melons, and tObac
co, and cucumbers, and ctrons and turnips, and
all the other eatahles that can be thought Of
| Farming utensils were scattered all around of
the modern improved style. In the yard were
$50 head of cattle, all of them as "fat feshed,
and well formed as the kline Pharaoh saw
come out of the river and feed in the meadow. "
One yoke was labeled 1920 lbs, another $40.
The farmers of Geauga say they are ready at
any time to compare cattle with any county on
the Reserve
Then came the industrial exhibition of the
Old Folks, spinning and carding, by old ladi os
one of whom was "a years old, and then the
old fashioned dinner Of pork and beans, eaten
ON wooden tTencheTs and pewter platters, one
of which is said to have been a May Flower
platter and has the old crown mark upon it
and then the ride on horseback in the old
fashion, the ladies' in the wedding dresses o.
their grand mothers, mounted on behind theil
husbands, dressed in the old fashions with knee
buckles and shoe buckles, and cooked hats
1 with child on before and another in the
mothers arms behind, thus going to churcl
with the whole family.
Then the Hall. There was a better an,
larger collection Of apples than l have eve
seen at any County Fair for years, and arrang
7 ed TO the best advantage, and with good film
9 up Of the smaller fruits generally. Oyerhea
= and on the walls were hung quilts, carpets
table linen, pictures paintings, penoilingi
. monochromatics, dagueuGtypes, stockings
), thread, yarn, rags and flannel There wa
G butter and cheese, pies and bread, and all kind
A OF fiXlns for the table, showing that farmer
: daughters do after all make the best Of house
u keepers, and their personal appearance at th
e Fair showed that on all proper occasions the
n could do up the polite and agreeable in ii
4, parlor.
The Floral Department was beyond descril
, ton beautifully arranged iu mammoth boque
n and iestoons, and scattered around in prolusiC
o among miniature moss-eovered cabins aud co
4 tages, with miniature occupants and with mi
iiture pigs, rabbits and chickens about the var
Z while a. one end was a bed Of more than tV
d hundred dahlias of more than fifty varieties,
/, contribution from the gardens Of Storrs d Ha
\. rison, Of Painesyie, and from the centre Of III
rose a cone a foot in diameter and four feet hig
entirely covered with dahas, the base con
Il posed Of the dark maroon oolored "Gem OF Il
uToNe, ana shaded mp Win the Aghter Nafl
ties TO the top, and crowned with the pa
white and beautiful agnes" forming displ'
AT suitable TO adom the centre table in the pa
), or Of the Floral Goddess herself THIS COZ
~ was, by Mr. Harrison and lady, at the dose
rs the exhibition, presented TO the ladies' of Il
h. Society, and for then and at their special soil
itatiOn, present the same to the editors of Il
Leader as a token of their appreciation TIL,
- also extend TO them and the Editorial corps
" Cleveland, an invitation to atteni the ne
= annual exhibition OF the Society, and partake
a the hospitalties OF Old Geauga.
,e Yours, b.
e. Thanks to the Ladies OF the Gsauga Couu
ut Free Agricultural Society for their beauti
y, Floral gin and kind invitation Both are Q
as cePted with unfeigned pleasure. II [EplTo
LRADER.