Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1860-08-02
FARMERS, COLUMNS.
Tennessee Srnte Fair.

Tennessee state Fair.
The attention Of the citizens of Tennessee and adj
joining States is called by our excellent 6gricultu
raj contemporary, the So1ahe7a Homestead, to the
fact that the Tennessee State Fair, for 1860, viii
commence at Nashville, on Monday, September 10th,
and continue during the week
The Agricultural Bureau of the State, adds our
contemporary has already held six annual exhibitions
and they have put measures on foot to make the
seventh far superior any heretofore held, and j.
should be the pride of every person in the State to
lend helping hand 20 sustain this valuable instita-
ton.
The Premium List has been fully revised. The
list opened to the lcOrd and all entrance fees for er
ton renOved so that exhibitors are afforded every
opportunity to make their display at as tring cost
to themselves as possible. They will undoubtedly
take advantage of this liberal arrangement. and
make the largest exhibition held in the State
Many additions and improvements have been made
to the premium list, and every department
greatly enlarged and extended, so as to embrace all
kinds of valuable domestic animals agricultural and
other machinery all kinds of manufactured articles
farm products, horticultural products, ETC., etc.
FIVE HUNDRED DOLLARS each are offered for the best
Jack
The Premium List likewise embraces hundreds
of articles in the Ladies Department that has never
before found place in it. Floral Hall will be al
most exclusively devoted to their use and it is ex-
peoted that this part of the exhibition will be
precedented, and viii alone fully repay the time
and expense of visitors.
Numerous improvements are making upon the
already ample and convenient Fair Grounds, thus
rendering them the most comfortable and commo-
dious of any in the Southern States. The various
Railroads running into Nashville have kindly con-
scented to carry passengers aud live stock to the
FAIR at half price In order to avail themselves of
this reduction, the Railroads will issue tickets for
Nashville at the usual rates, which will return the
holders Free by having them stamped by the Treas
urer of the Association the Fair Grounds Am
| pie arrangements are made for cheap conveyances
to and from the Fair Grounds, by railroad omnibus
and carriages.
Programmes will be furnished free to any person
| addressing L. P. WILLIAMS, Secretary Agricultural
Bureau Nashville, Tennessee.
The Wheat Crop.
While wheat is under an average crop in the
Southwest this year, and in Tennessee and Kentucky
1t may be called failure except in favored spot
or two here and there in the Northwest it has turn
ed out excellent yield-being only large to
quantity, but also good as to quality The Spring
wheat of Illinois has not been SO good for many
years. The wheat of Indiana is fair generally, and
in not few instances that we have seen referred to-
very superior. The crop of Ohio is some what on
the magnificent order. The yield is large, the qaul
ity good, and the grain has been harvested in fine
| order.
! We have before us individual cases of the crop
| in this State, some of which are well worth men
loning.
The Tappahannock and Lambert varieties appear
be the two kinds which best resist attacks of wee
vii according to prevalent opinion among the farm
4rs of Ohio. The Purkey White is one of the mos
l productive varieties known. We had our eye upon
this wheat last year. and hope the seed stores viii
,btan supply of it, so that it may have good trial
| n Tennessee the coming season. The editor OF the
| OHIO CaHiUatOr thus refers TO HENRY C. NoBLE's
;rop. grown Columbus From field of Ter
acres of White Purley Wheat, which will thresh ou
rom thirty to thirty-ive bushels to the acre, Mr.
NOBLE has just handed single tiller of seventy
stalks which, at moderate estimate, contains three
thousand grains of wheat as by count most of the
heads contain fifty grains each. This field is
On an old pasture sod, clay land and stood at an
average height of about five feet Tie straw is very
stout. The field was sown on the 9TH of September
and ripened about five days later than the best Medi
| terranean"
G.S. JCNIs. another Franklin county farmer, harv
| ested field of the Tappahannock, which turned GU
thirty five bushels to the acre. d. w. II. HOWARD
| of Fulton county, harvested field of the Sale:
wheat, the yield of which is stated by the Toledo
| Blade at upwards of thirty-fve bushels per acre
| JOHN H. GARDNER, of Hardin county, presented a
the office of the Republican sheaf" Of wheat
composed of seventy-four stalks upon the heads OF
| which were eighteen hundred and fifty grains OF
| wheat-the whole being the product of single
/ grain Of tie Mediterranean variety. Mr. H. LADD
of Jefferson county, says in to the Ohio Frm
er, ave have not had so good wheat crop in this
section of the State since 1855. 1t is really cheering
to think we are to have a decided surplus of this
great staple grain, instead of having import for
| home consumption as has been the case for some
| years past.
And from all parts of Ohio similar accounts reach
the farmers of that State putting their wheat
| in very carefully. Much of it was drilled in. And
to the care observed at that time, doubtless much
| of their present good fortune is due.