The Grand Haven news. [volume] (Grand Haven, Mich.) 1858-18??, 1859-09-21

every husbandman a gentleman farmer,
instead of compelling him to perform the
drudgery usually incident to that calling
meet the eye. Passing thees, you en-
ter Agricultural Hall, where every variety
Of product of farm and garden is display
cd in all tho pride with which Diogones
Of old pointed to the cabbages which he
had reared with his own hands, and
showed truly to what perfection the vegc-
table creation may attain under the fos-
tering care of rightly educated husband
men. Here were exhibited stalks of corn
of monstrous size, some of which meas
ured eighteen feet in length with ears
some ten feet from the ground, raised in
Egypt" Cheese hoped, in circum-
ference equal to those worn by many
full dressed belle that paused to admire
their great rotundity and dopth-Ham-
burg cheese, genuine, cheese of pineapple
shape and size, and the old fashioned
sage cheese of our grand-mothers. But
ter, of the choicest make that fair hands
could form into exquisitely wrought rolls
or pack into well scalded crooks. Bread,
cakes, crackers, DC, &c, together with
fine samples of potatoes, corn, wheat, bar
ley, oats, millet, flour, meal, &C., as we'll
as the greatest variety of the vegetable
kingdom that gardens north and south
can produce.
Connected with this Hall, was the ex-
hibition of the different styles of bee hives,
from that of Fifth Avenue size and pre-
tension, TO that that can be made by the
boy of nine years with carpenters saw
and jack-knife, together with boxes, glass
es and jars Of honey, so attractive yei
unapproachable as to compel many a
brave to turn "mournfully and wistfully'
away, and pass into the Domestic De
partment; and here pen and descriptive
power fails to give any adequate idea O.
the beauty and magnifcence that reigr
within. Suffice il to say, that let per
son competent for the task pass through
city and country, and gather therefron
all the finest fabrics that can be produced
in every department of domestic indus
try, either by hand or machinery, of wear
ing apparel, household furniture, uphol
stery, jewellery, &C., &C., and one may
form some faint idea of what might b,
seen in this department, in connection
with that of the household department
which next invites the attention of tn
visitor, and of which only this passing
notice is given at present.
, On the outside of these halls, and form
ing the outer line of the grounds ar
placed stalls for cattle and horses, and il
the rear of the two last mentioned, pen
for swine and sheep, leaving space 70
fowls, game DC, nearly in front Of th
one last mentioned. AS you turn to
{ ward the entrance way you pass lon
row of seats, where, one on the payment c
20 cents, can find rest for his wear
Q limbs, and enable muscles and bones I
resume their natural shape once more
r after tho terrible pressure to which the
: have been subjected by tho passing
: squeezing multitude.
Thence onward, you pass the judge
0 stand and different offices connected wit
!, the business department of the Fair, La
S dies Setting and Refreshment Room,
n Icc-Cream Hall, &C., to the place of or
Q trance, the whole enclosure embracin
!, forty acres and enclosed with substan
> tial board fence.
INTERESTING OBJEors.-Among tn
| most interesting implements Of husband
ry on exhibition and of those that seem
ed to stake" with the vast multitude {
: visitors, were two steam plows, to wit
Fawke's steam plow, Lancaster" an
one manufactured by Mr.. Waters, of d.
: troit. Fawke's steam plow Lancaster,
: with the shares detached, is in appear
$ ance not greatly unlike tho tender of
:. locomotive. A driving wheel, six feet
r diameter and five and half feet in widtl
r is situated Immediately beneath the mai
d bulk of the machine, in which is the Wa
@ ter tank. To this wheel power is con
municated from two steam cylinders, {
@ nine inches diameter and fifteen incht
t stroke. The boiler is placed in an VI
4 right condition, over and little forwar
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