Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1859-10-16


Yesterday closed she sixth annual Fair Of the Ten
nOsses State Agricultural Bureau The weather
during the week has been unusually fine and the at
tendance much larger than upon any previous fair
of the Bureau. The competition in some Of the
classes not SO large as TO have been
expected, but the articles entered for exhibition
were sIl very fine and than usually n.eritori-
ous In the Glass for blood stock, the competition
was very light, from the fact that several Of the
largest and most successful breeders in Middle Ten
nessee were prevented from entering their horses
from the fact that they had the diEtemper That ex
hibited, however, very fns and ELECTED the
highest commentator from experienced judges. q
The horses, jacks and mules exhibited on Wednes-3
day and Thursday embraced larger number than
were ever exhibited heretofore at our State Fair.
and they unusually fine, and afforded the visit
Ors excellent idea of the attention bestowed BY
planters in pearug the animals used in the cult
walton of their fertile fields. In this branch OF stock
raising Middle Tennessee will compare favorably
with Kentucky, celebrated that State is for the
superiority OF It's horses and mules and every
man who visited the Fair on Wednesday and Thurs
day must have felt entirely satisfied upon this point
There fair smount Of farm products enter
ed and the specimens such to satisfy all
who them that the soil of Tennessee is capable
OF producing. in quality and quantity, equal to that
of any State IN the Union Our farmers, if we may
Judge by the specimens they exhibited and the
amount produced TO the acre, have made very rapid
progress in the science of agriculture within few
years. Improved modes of cultvatIous have been
generally adopted and have resulted in great ad-
vantage to the cultvators OF the soil We noticed
on exhibition some of the finest specimens of corn
ksy nvar auvyTbora nj ,ya do not b.I;.v,
the wheat exhibited could be surpassed anywhere.
There were graat many other articles exhibited
in the class Of farm products which would challenge
competition from the most favored regions Of our
country, all testfying to the truth of the remark
that the farmers of Middle Tennessee have. by the
introduction of improved methods Of culture, made
very rapid progress within few years.
The agricultural implements on exhibition 1T /
trscted much attention from farmers and others,
and were verifcatiOn of the wonderful progress
that has been made in this department of mechan-
icsl skill. The variety was much larger than W. |
had expected to see, while the workmanship was 4
Teaiy superior.
We have referred TO only few classes. M1st of /
the othprs we're well represented; not however. as
fully a State Fair should have drawn. The small
ness and the limited number of the premiums (Only
enc being awarded for each article without regard |
TO the number and merit of the competition) may
have been TO a considerable extent the cause Of this
We feel fully satisfied that first and second and
even a third premium would eXerta most beneficial |
effect in stimulating farmers aud mechanics to
exhibit specimens of their skill and ingenuity
The premium Of fifty dollars offered for the best
Durham bull brought out six remarkably fine ami
mails az contestants and one Of the best ana most
successful stock-raisers in this Sate-remarIci that
il was the finest exhibition he had ever seen and he
basseen some remarkably fine animals exhibited in
other States.
Upon the whole, the Fair was a success Of which
the members of the Bureau have just cause 20 be
proud. Il has certainly awakened more lively
interest among our farmers and mechanics than any
previous Fair Of the Buresu. The adoption of 4
still more liberal policy by the Bureau in awarding
premiums would unquesdoaably add greatly to
the interest in these Fairs the part Of the pro-
ducing classes and thus add largely the amount Of
the articles exhibited.
The premiums awarded for articles exhibited in
the Floral Hall were announced yesterday. These
We shall publish IN few days.
AWARD OF PREMIUMS