Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1858-1860, 1859-10-17
state ra,r--sl..h and last Day,

We adopt the following article from the
Union and american of yesterday. Ii is from
the pen, we presume, of the senior editor of
that paper, the very efficient Secretary of the
Agricultural Bureau
Yesterday closed the sixth annual Fair of
the Tennessee State Agricultural Bureau.
The weather during the week has been I'M
usually fine and the attendance much larger
than upon any previous fair of the Bureau.
The competition in some of the classes was
not so large as was to have been expected.
but the articles entered for exhibition were all
very fine and more than usually meritorious.
In the class for blood stock, the competition
was very light, from the fact that several of
the largest ard most successful breeders in
Middle Tennessee were prevented from enter
ing their horses from the fact that they had
the distemper. That exhibited, however. was
very fine aud elected the highest commenda-
ton IRON experienced judges.
The horses, jacks and mules exhibited on
Wednesday and Thursday embraced larger
number than were ever exhibited heretofore
ut our State Fair, and they were unusually
fine, and afforded the visitors an excellent idea
Of the attention bestowed by our planters in
rearing the animals used in the GUILTY. alton of
their fertile fields. In this branch of stock
raising Middle Tennessee wilt compare favor
ably with Kentucky. celebrated as that State
is for the superiority Of its horses and mules,
and every man who visited the Fair on
Wednesday and Thursday must have felt en-
tirely satisfied upon this point.
There was u fair amount of farm products
entered, and the specimens were such AS to
satisfy all who saw them that the soil of Ten
nessee is capable of producing. in quality aud
quantity, equal to that OF any State in the
Union. Our farmers, ii we may judge by the
specimens they exhibited and the amount
prodaccd to the acre, have made very rapid
progress in the science of agriculture within
u few years. Improved modes of cultivation
| have been generally adopted, and have result
ed in great advantage to the cultvators of
| the soil. We noticed on exhibition some OF
| the finest specimens of corn we have ever
seen anywhere. and we do not believe the
wheat exhibited could be surpassed anywhere.
| There were great many other articles hib-
| tied in the class of farm products which would
! challenge competition from the most favored
regions OF our country, all testifying to the
truth of the remark that the farmers of Mid
die Tenn, ssee have, by the introduction OF
! improved methods OF culture, made very ra-
! piI progress within a few years.
The agricultural implements on exhibition
attract Il much attention from farmers and
Olncr-, AID we're IA veriicatlon of the wonder
| ui pr"grt IS that has been made in this de-
pL taent OF mechanical skill. The variety
Was much larger than We had expected to see,
while the wOI kmanshp was really superior.
The premium vi fifty dollars offered for the
best Durham bull, brought out six remarka-
bly, line animals as contestants, and one of
the best and most successful stOck-rasers in
this State, remarked that iC was the finest ex-
hlbitiOn he had ever seen, aud he has seen
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 to be proud. 1t has certainly awakened
u more lively interest among our farmers aud
mechanics than any previous Fair OF the
Bureau. The adoption Of a still more liberal
policy by the Bureau in aw arding premiums,
would umquestionably add greatly to the i'll
terest in these Fairs part OF the producing
Glasses, aud thus add largely to the amount
of articles exhibited.
The premiums awarded for articles ex-
hibiIcd in the Floral Hall were announced
Saturday. These we shall publish to-mor-
row.