The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1859-09-17

paign takes the lead in the dark beautie
while Horace Miles of Winnebago, N
: Ruble of Wisconsin, Mr. Periam and NJ
Wentworth of Cook take the lead in til
Suholks. The stock of this last gentlema
is very fine in form, but wanting in size
Mr.. X. has the imported SOW Puze, whic
took the first premium of the Gloucestc
Fair, England; his boar Moses Whale,
jr.," for size approaches the Berkshire
\ cross of the Suffolk with our commo
stock make firm porkers. 4 few Esse
, pigs are on exhibition, but attract little a
tention.
The specimens of sheep are highly cIed
liable. Wool and Mutton are both takei
into account, while the long legs and eH
tremely fine wool have made compronl
Use, and are hoping corresponding reward
E. F. McCornull of Sangamon, Hammond
and Burns OF Dupage and I. S. Spmen o
Nermillion are the PRINCIPAL exhibitors.
FARM PROJECTS
make but a small display. In vegetable
the fremont House garden is ahead of al
competition.
/ In machinery the show is not large
We have given it but little attention
( Among these We're several machines at
tracing considerable attention under the
superintendeucc Of Fay d Co, Machinery
Depot, l32 Clark street, Chicago, ". II
Doane, agent, which attract much atten-
ton. One of Fay ~ Co ; new iron frame
sash machines is kept running most ofthe
time sticking various kinds OF sash. mold
ings, blind slats, &c. Also one Of Dcaue {;
Mason resawing machines attracts Il large
crowd of lockers on, all anxious to know
how this machine with 30 much ease, cuts
cants joist and plank into boards and 81
ding. These machines form one OF the
most Interesting features i'll the Nechani-
cal Department.
Van Doren & Glover's Steam Rotary
Plow, Reaper and Mower combined, did
some plowing this morning, but its results
Were certainly not as successful III turnin =
over the sod as We could have desired but
the the inventors think, by giving a differ
ent inclination to the plow-share, the de
sired end viii BE- attained. We hope 50,
for, If successful, il VIII be almost all the
agricultural machinery a farmer VIII re-
quire For besides being IS claimed. a
plow, and perfect mower and reaper, a saw
for cutting timbers can be easily attached
!; i also. they claim, perfect d:tcher Ia
addition, ii has portable engine, capable
of supplying a.. the motive power needed
by the a.ricuituralist 4 u ditchrr. it Is
said THAI it dig and throws dirt out from
one to thirty feet, and by runnin. it twice
over the ditch 1t makes II two feet deep.
and three TO four fee, wide This machine
Is five horse power, and viii cost 5000
'
ton spirited. Nearly all are superior i'm
p!cInent>. and 90 the manufacturers good
credit The hr>; in the long line j, a lot
Of them By : , skinner, Rockford Six
diamond plows. Edmund D1vi, Winucba-
20 Fonr Ly james GRAY. Walrcuyille.
with standing coulter. Nr. Gray, you had
best put on the wheel cutter and leave off
that old foEy append.re. Your plows are
good. and the fastening of the standard 10
the side Of the beam we like J Nilkin-
son. of Morris, has two plows, one deep
t:lle- but not t. our notion. These -hang-
hal, deep tiii".. can be of no great value
\ subsol rlow or deep tiller should not
nave the beam much higher than the
horse head
T. d Brewster, of Peru. makes the lar
cest display. having thirtv-~vycu finely
finished specimens. which attr,,y; no small
attention. Fur,t i Bradley Of Chicago.
have three Chicago clippers. John Deere
of Moline, has eighteen of his cast steel
plow., among them tie Double Michigan
plow. which. though intended for deep til
larc, J.. in our opinion. of great value for
prairie breaking. for with this plow prairie
can be broken III March, April or Noycyn-
her, and Vet roll as well as that plowed in
jane i'll the usual way, this We have de
fros cd he, ~
these plcws is the weed hook Of which we
made mention in our last Farm and Gar
den" letter Anderson Il Bosworth of
ogle county, show tweuty-one piows ali
well made, among them we note a Days
Tillcr, No. 3, which picases Us the best OF
any we find on the ground 10 make the
last furrOw in trench plowing : Lonrcor
has three plows, one with an iron beam
which he has entered, as containing newly
invented principles, may be valuable, but
these iron beams are hardly needed when
wood is good and cheap. J. Nandergritt
of Bureau county, shows an iron beam
plow. G. Gould of Pecatonica, has one
plow on the ground We as Illinoi-ian-
may feel proud of this show of plows which
in pertectness of Implements has never
been excclled.
&. b Baker, from South Pass, Union
county, exhibit, thirty varieties ofseedings,
and thirty Of grated apples Many OF
these Seeding apples Were propagated by
suckers, III fact many of the orchards i'll
this part of the State are made up 10y Ia
king up sprouts from old orch ards, and
among these supposed seedlings we find
old well known sorts which have been dis
guised by the soil and climate of this part
of the State In this lot we note for the
first time Smith, Cider which is becoming
so popular in Ohio and Indiana Now that
our friends know its true name they will
give it more prominent position. We
shall expect to have occasion to report fur
ther discoveries Of the kind In this lot
the Buckingham, Nandevere Pippin, r. /.
Greening, Pryers Red, Yellow Beliilower,
and White Winter Pearmain hold prom
inent position Mr. B. has selected several
several of the real or supposed seedlings
for orchard culture, as possessing a high
value for productiveness and long keeping
The next lot is that of III. c. Freeman, of
the same place formerly, and known as the |
of one of the La Sale coal
mines. but now largely engaged in fruit
growing for the Chicago market. He eX- |
hibits fifty varieties of apples, among them !
several fine lots Of seedlings, similar to |
those of Mr. Baker White Winter Pear |
main, Rambo, GreeninS, and Gloria Nun
d. figure prominent among his gratis /
Mr.. F. had fine lot of Pawpaws, which |
grow abundantly on his grounds. Why |
will not some person invent some safe !
mode of sending this Northern Bannanna