The Council Bluffs nonpareil. [volume] (Council Bluffs [Iowa]) 1857-1867, 1859-08-06
UNITED STATES FAIR.

The seventh annual exhibition of the Uni
ted States Acr cutural Society will be held
on the grounds Of Mr.. Graves, Mt Cottage
Grove, ear Chicago, from the l2th of Sep
tember to the 18th inclusive.
Col. Capron, Superintendent, is now en-
gagged in erecting the necessary buildings,
g., and has already 100000 feet Of lumber
on the ground.
The Premium List reaches about Slj.U
to which are 10 be added volunteer premiums
by the citizens Of Chicago. The cash pre-
miums range from 500 to s..
Entries can be made from the 5th to the
| 18th of September at noon. Persons inten-
ing 10 exhibit must become annual mem
btrS.
The premiums are to be paid on the last
day Of the fair. or the wsek thereafter, ut
Chicago. Sales may be made by the exhib-
itor> during the Fair, under regulations pre-
, scribrd by the Superintendent.
In the Cattle department, the highest prize
is 800. For the best three year old grade
cows. $50 mich cows, do; best yoke of
working oxen, four years old, $50; steers,
SD; bullock. So COW or heifer, SO.
For the est thorough bred stations and
mares, SlnU: stations and mares for all
work, $50 saddle horses, 30: trotting stall
lions and mares, SlU0 each.
For sheer, the hest premium offered is
$50: Siau. Uttered mutton, SO; goats, $50 !;
poultry 50, ana a premium of $40 for the
best collection of poultry not less than an
hundred in nunl1er.
The best sample Of corn, wheat, oats. rye,
barley, buckwhcat, grass seed, millet, g.,
s.; best sugar from sorgho, $40 potatoes,
S5 otner vegetables, So best butter, $50 !;
best cheese, $50.
In the Horticultural Department, prizes
of so are offered for the best apples, pears,
peaches and plums 500 for the best native
grapes SlOfor wines: $40 for dahlias, ver-
benas, roses and cut flower S25 for the best
collection of house plants.
Liberal prizes are also offered for the best
bread, cakes, fruit cakes, fruit, butter, do
mestic fabrics, knitting work, and ornamen-
tai work and the other products of the
household department.
Silver and bronze medals are offered for
the various agricultural machines, all me-
chanca and manufacturing productions,
paintings, daguerreotypes, architecture, in
struments, chemists, products and musical
instruments.
For the best managed farm in the United
States. diploma of honor and silver med
al is offered, and the same for the hest
plantation, also best farm crops for 1859,
the same.
The same prizes are offered for the accoun,
of the best experiments, and essays upon Ger.
tain agricultural subjects.
There are ]28 classes of premiums embra
cling everything in agriculture, science anc
art, worthy Of merit. Of course We have
given but brief synopsis, there being thou
sands of articles which come in for prizes
The Secretary announces that "neithel
labor nor expense will be spared to render
the exhibition Of 80 worthy of the city ir
which it is to be held, of the sGreat West
where it was located by a vote Of the Socie
tv and of the United States of America
whose citizens will compete for the prizes.'
The proprictors of the following public
houses have pledged themselves to the Soci
ETY. to charge but the following rasesper da,
ard night during the holding Of the Fair
fremont. Richmond. Briggs and Adam
Houses, $3.50; Metropolitan, Massassoit
Revere and Matteson, $500; City, Sollitt
Garden City, Hatch's, Foster and Sherman
so; and the New York and Merchant
hotel, Sl25.