Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1860-08-24

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Iowa City, Aug. 3, 1860.
Editor Of the State Reporter:
SIR have been officially advised, by our
Executive Board, that the eighth National
Exhibition of the United States Agricultural
Society, will be holden at Cincinnati, from
the 18th to the Goth of September, 1860, both
inclusive. t..
The premium list now in. my possession,
covers forty closely printed octave pages. ar
ranged in one hundred and tacenty-three diff.
fferea,t classes and embraces specific premiums
to an aggregate of more than twenty thousand
dollars, besides a multitude of gold, silver,
and bronze medals, and ample provision for
every conceivable product or fabric Of merit,
not enumerated.
On horses alone, the offerings number one
hundred and thirteen, amounting to six thou
sand, five hundred and ninty five dollars.
Persons DESTROYS of consulting it, in ertenso,
will be furnished with copy, on application,
either to me at Iowa City, or by letter to the
Secretary at Cincinnati.
Even synopsis of this very extensive list
would occupy too much of your space for
gratuitous insertion; but for the immediate
information of those citizens of Iowa, who
feel deep interest in the matter, request
you and your editorial brethren to notice the
time and place of this great Exhibition, with
the following short extract from the regula-
TONS" viz:
Exhibitors making entries by mail must
remit the fee of three dollars, give their name,
postofiice, county, and State, and then state
separately each entry, giving the number Of
the class in which it is desired to compete
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animal; the name of each machine or nipple.
ment, (the date of patent, if patented, the
place where it is manufactured, land, if tho't
proper, the selling price, must be given. All
entries must be made at the Secretary's Office
before the 10th Of September, except of fruit,
flowers, and vegetables, which will be received
up to Monday, September II.
1.-THE Agriculturists, Stock. breeders, Hor-
ticulturists, Promologists, Mechanics. Artists,
and other Industrial citizens of the Republic,
and of the adjacent British Provinces, are re.
spectfully and earnestly solicited to contribute
to the exhibition, that it may be one Of gen.
eral interest in all its departments All in
struments, machines, utensils, apparatus in
tended to be used in the preparation, culture,
or seeding Of the soil; in the harvesting,
transportation, or manufacture Of produce
or in the various requirements of agriculture /;
or in promoting the comfort Of agricultnrists
and of their families, will be admitted to the
Exhibition, as entitled to Discretionary pre-
lniums, il worthy, and the Society will en-
deayor to suitably reward exhibitions Of other
specimens Of mechanical skill, female handi-
work, or artistic taste.
"A cordial invitation is extended to gentle
men legitimately connected with the Press
to attend the Exhibition Tickets will be sent
to all editors orreporters who may apply, and
show that they are entitled to them.
"Editors sOho may notice the Exhibition
sciN pledss forward copis, Of their paper to tie
Secretary, at Cincinnati"
LEGRAND BYIxGroN,
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