Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1859-02-04

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Mr. EpIToR:-My fourth proposition was
to suggest a plan 10 improve our County
Agricultural Society SO as 10 make its annual
Fairs more Interesting and enhance its Pc
euifiaV prosperity: The interest Of Agri-
culture is paramount TO all other interests,
and Being a farmer by occupation aad feel
ing much Interested in the success and per.
manepce Of our Society, my plan for ad-
yancing lis interests is comprised in the fol-
loving suggestions My chief objections
to the previous management are LIST. That
too much prominence has been given to
running horses, horse racing and agriculture
are two distinct interests aud ought not to
be blended. I'd. There has not been in
the past speaking enough on the great sub
Iject of agriculture. What We have had has
generally been given by members of the
legal Frofession and city editors imported
from abroad, who probably never held a pillow
in their lives and OF the details of Practical
husbandry know about as much as a pig does
Of holidays. The speakers stand ought to
be kept occupied from the commencement
to the close Of The fair by intelligent and
/ experienced Farmers, which our county
I can furnish in abundance, such men for in-
stance as N. Dustin, David Bush, John Cum
ninghanl, Wan. Williams, II. McMaster, r..
| Wilson,, Geo. Atkinson, Z. Stevens, ].
McCammon, H. Moore, and many others
that might be named, men of age and ex-
perience,, of practlcal common sense, and
whose statements would be both reliable and
valuable. The Board should select such
men this winter as speakers Tor the next fair,
give each a distinct subject for discussion,
and my word for it they will all give US some
lining worth listening to and of practical
importance to the great interests Of agricul-
ture. / learn that there is at present a
handsome unexpended balance in the treas
ury OF the Society, and would suggest that
it be expended IN the purchase OF some 3D.. 10
OF 90 acres TO be added 10 the present fair
grounds-fence il all ia, and alter preparing
u suitable border round the entire Elephant
it with grape vines, whicirif kcptwell train.
ed against the fence will not only add great
ly the appearance of the Enclosure but in
the course of a few years. will afford an
abundant supply of good Iruit, TO be eaten
by the public during the fair. [ would sug-
| gest that a premium be offered for the cheap
est and best Stump Extractor-this will be
necessary to prepare our grounds for agri~
cultural machinery ; the extractors are 10 be
exhibited on our new purchase, in taking
out the ~stumps--then pillow the land on the
DAYS of the fair, harrow it, subsoil it, aud
SOW one part 10 wheat and another to grass.
Give premiums to best a~plowers, borrowers,
rollers, grain d~riilers, and seed sewers, or
TO the implements used in sowing this grain
and grass seed during the exhibition. The
wheat and grass is to be used-to exhibit the
improved reapers and mowers during the
next harvest. The hay is to be used TO feed
the stock during the fair--the wheat is to
be threshed on the ground during the fair by
improved threshiDg machines; the straw
used to bed the stock; the grain taken over
to town, Toured, baked ard brought back in
the shape of good fresh bread, to be eaten
by the public. Plant in the spring one acre
or more 10 Sorghum or Chinese Sugar Cane
have it cultivated-the juice to be ex-
tracted and manufactured into syrup or SUI
gar during the fair, to exhibit the best ma
chinery for that purpose-and the product
can be converted into candy, tnffy, etc., to
be eaten by the public with the grapes, warm
biscuit, fresh bread, &c. Also let there
be fifty or more sweet apple trees planted
on tue new purchase, nave tue apples used
for making cider during the fairly the i'm
proved mills on exhibition, and the product
distributed to those in attendance, to wash
down the other good things. a.-' .sa.I
And now, MIR. President JoNEs, und.afessrs.
Directors elect, we expect you to render
glorious and memorable your reign by in-
augurating and carrying out some great acts
by which the interests of agriculture in our
county wifi be advanced. The above sug.
gestiuns constitute the outlines of my plan,
which ] think would work satisfactorily. L
shall neither copyright my suggestions nor
take out a patent for my discoveries--se
that If you concur with me, you can adopt
them ia whole or in p%art--or, if you have a
better plan Of your own, putyit in operation
Let us make our annual Fair q great insti-
mtiou--give il attractions that will draw
all, not forgetting the sla~dies--and, being
blessed with railroads running north and south,
east and west, such a crowd will flock TO
them from our own and neighboring ceun-
as will astohish %you-and if you please
you can, if deemed advisable, charge lhemsa
high admission fee, for if my plan Is cars