The weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1858-1860, 1859-07-16


-, eev,otA nual exhibition Of The United
ssates AericultssAl 6osiesy viii be held on the
rsosnas Of NJ Graves, At Cottage Grove, near
Chicago, from the 18th Of September to the 18th
inclusive.
Gel CApson, superintendent. IL new engaged
in erecting The necessary buildings. &c, and has
already zoe, 700 feet Of lumber ON the ground.
The Premium List reaches about el5, 900, to
which are to be added volunteer premiums By
the citizens Of Chicago. The cash premiums
range from ZOO 70 Is.
Entries can be made from the 9Th to the 18th
OF September ct noon. Persons Intending 70
exhibit must become annual members.
The premiums are to Be paid on the last day
Of the Fair. or the week thereafter, ~ Chicago.
sales may be made BY exhibitors during the
Fair, under regulations prescribed By the super
intendent.
500. For the best tire. year old grade cows,
$50; mich cows, do; best yoke Of working
exen, four years old, e20; steers. tl5; bullock,
ea6 cow or heifer, $35.
For the best thoroughbred stations aud
mares, &l00; stations and mares for all work,
$50; saddle horses, $50; trotting stations and
mares, 800 each.
For sheep, the highest premium offered Is
$50; slaughtered mutton, $40; goats, $40 poul'
| try. Is, and premium Of tl0 for the best col
| lection of poultry not less than an hundred in
| number.
The best sample of corn, wheat, oats, rye,
| barley, buckWhext, grass seed, millet, &C., %
best sugar from sargho, $40; potatoes, IS
| other vegetables, So; best butter go; bes
cheese; $40.
In the Horticultural Department, prizes Of So
| are offered for the best apples, pears, peaches
and plums $40 for the best native grapes; $lt
for wines. $40 for dahlias, verbenas, roses ant
| cut flowers; $25 for the best collection of houst
plants.
Liberal prizes are also offered for the bes
bread, cakes, fruit, butter, domestic fabrics
knitting work, ladies work, and Ornamental
work and the other products of the household
department.
Silver and bronze medals are offered. 70
the various agricultural machines, all me.
chanical and manufacturing productions, paint
ings, daguerreotypes. architecture, iDstru
mepts. chemists products and musical instru
ments.
For the best managed farm in the Unite'
States diploma OF honor and silver medal j
offered, and the same for the best plantation
also hes, farm crops for 1859, the same.
The same prizes are offered for the account o
the best experiments, aud essays upon certail
agricultural subjects.
There are l2s classes of premiums embracing
everything in agricultural, science and art
worthy of merit. OF course we have given bu
brief synopsis, there being thousands Of arti
cles which come in four prizes
The Secretary announces that I" neither labo
nor expense will be spared to render the cxhi.
bltion of SO worthy of the city in which it is t,
be held, OF the "Great West" where il wa
loo ated BY vote OF the Society and of the Unitet
States OF America, whose citizens wllscompett
for the prizes"
The p7opretors o. the following public house
haye pledged themselves to the Society Il
charge but she following rates per day an,
night during the holding of the Fair:
fremont, Richmond, Briggs and Adam
Houses, s2,to; Metropolitan, Massassoit, Re
we're and MatterSon, 10. 90; City, SoAite, Gardel
City, Hs.ch's, Foster and Sherman, $3.50; Ant
ihe New York and Merchants Hotel, $l.25.