The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1859-09-22

liams, of Quincy.
National Fair, Chicago. .
1t was our privilege to attend the
seventh Annual Fair of the United
States Agricultural Society, held at
Chicago last week. The past Fairs of
of this Society had been attended with
such success that we were led to expect
much of this one, nor were we disap-
pointed. We cannot afford our readers
even resume Of what we saw, and
shall notice what we deem to be of
general interest.
The grounds of the Fair occupied
As acres, situated 8 miles from the
Court House and made easy of access
by means of the Horse Railroad, Hi
nois Central r. r. and Steam Boats.
Within the enclosure were several build
ings for the use of the Officers of the
Society, editors and exhibitors. There
was a Telegraph and Printing office in
operation during the week. Around
the enclosure were stalls for cattle,
horses and sheep conveniently arranged
for exhibition. Inside of these were
buildings for the display of articles in
the Floral, Pathological, Mechanical,
Household and Fine Arts departments.
AS we walked around the enclosure
we could not but think,
| "This world is all cattle show,
For cows and oxen given"
There were cattle from Maryland,
kentucky, Iowa, Ohio, Michigan, New
York and Illinois. There were Devons,
Durhams, Ayrshires, Hereford's and
all the other kinds. There were long
wooded, fine-wooled, coarse-wooled
straight-woolcd and curly wooled sheep,
There were Morgans and Black Hawks
almost without number. There were
all kinds of Hens and Dogs arranged by
some one in the same department, fol-
what reason we are unable to determine
We are not connoiseur of stock and
therefore do not attempt to discriminate
here, but if any among those of oul
readers who were present desire to cal
attention to any particular breed OF
animals among those exhibited we ten
der them the use of our columns.
Among the Agricultural Implement:
exhibited were two Steam Plows
Fawke's, which has been before the
/ public for some time and Waters, re
Gently invented in Detroit. The cir
cumstances under which the trial o.
these was had, prevented fair exhi
1 bition of their merits. The resul
showed however, that a Steam Plow j.
practicable and we shall not be sur
prised to see them running over oul
Ipraries ere many years shall pass.
i We also observed Machine fol-
Threshing and Hulling Clover ant
Grass Seeds, Manufactured by Birdsel
Brokard, West Henrietta, n. Y. Thu
invention seemed to attract great dea
of attention from farmers and ever,
one we heard, expressed himself wei
pleased with it. 1t seems to us tina
such a machine is needed as much as
Grain Thresher in every farming com
munity. d 81
i John p. Manny's, Self Raking ant
Binding Reaper was also on exhibition
and as we saw it operating IS harmo
niously as clock-work, we began to fea
that some one would invent MACHINE
to do our eating. From such ca
1 Iamity "Good Lord deliver u.s."
| An Automatic Rake invented by G
I'D. Reed, of Carpentersville, ILL.,, at
tached to Marshalrs Reaper, appeared
to be the best arrangement on exhi
bition. 1t required no extra gearing
but consisted simply of an arm witt
rake attached which, at regular inter
walls removed the grain in far better
shape than can be done by hand.
But we cannot enter into more par
4 ticulars, where there is so much tina
is meritorious.
! The Floral display was magnificent
In this Hall was a miniature Cottage
situated in Landscape Garden beau
: tifully laid out which attracted a grea
deal of attention. Tho exhibition 0
|. Dahlias was particularly fine. Ever,
color and almost every shade wa
! represented in the most perfec
flowers we ever saw.