The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1860-09-28
Rich, Rare and Racy-How Premi-
ums are Obtained at Agricultural


State and County Fairs. 1t is from the
Rural New Yorker, and will be found
highly beneficial to all officers who fill va
cancies in committees;
Col. Moore: Some years ago / got ac-
q,iainted with one of your contributors
who edited the Wool Grower, and he used
to put me in print. must say my vanity
was flattered by seeing my name printed
in the paper, with something's | said, and
something's | didn't say, and we've kept
the papers ever since. After all, every
body likes a little fame but some are sat
| isfied with q smaller amount than others.
| Well, | have not the editor any more to
set me out, SO i have been thinking ]
would just try and see IT you would put
me in the Rural on my own hook-espe-
cially as ] wSnt to ten yoa all about my
| going to the ttate Pa;f, at Buffalo, the
other day.
CONCLUDES TO co.
As it was not so far but what we could
90 with our own team, mother and con-
cuded we would hitch up and have II
week to see the sights and some cousins
we had not seen for long time. Mother
that's wife, you know thought we ought
to take something to the Fair. tcld her
to take a tub of her butter, but she didn't
think it was good enough, but thought |
might take some of the stock. But l
thought it would be a great bother. How
ever, Sam was pretty strong in the faith
that we could beat everybody on horses,
and wanted to take old Nance. She's a
right smart beast, is that old mare you
may depend.
TAKES THE MARE.
| Well, we packed OIL Sam, for was will
ling to give the boy a holiday. 1t does
the boys great good to attend these kind
of Fairs, do believe, after seeing all
saw there.
GOES IN.
We got safely to town on Monday night
and Tuesday Invent up to the Fair grounds
to see what was going on. ! got in, hunt
ed up Sam, and found he'd got the mare
entered, and had got his card on her head
and good stall, and all things comforta
bic. The animal arrangements were first
rate generally, and during all the time of
the Fair the supply of fodder was good.-
| think that Maj. Patrick, who was every
body in managing things, trump sort Of
man.
HEARS SOMETHING.
As was standing up near the business
office in the crowd, | heard couple Of
men talking about premiums. One said
to the other:
Are you an exhibitor
"Ies."
$50 am I, and we had better look to the
Committees"
"Why SOP"
You see the Committees are never all
full, and if you are on hand at the big
| hot hot lad To cli
in friend, which is a mighty nice thing
sometimes
well, | am showing patent for max
ing cowcumbers, and if you can can get
the prem.um it wi.i aiaksiny fortune"
"And ! am showing new kind of bob
tailed hens and q premium won't set me
back"
"Well, YOU get Inc on your committee
and will name you for mine"
"All right, goin to win when you can
, Thinks |, perhaps if that's the way the
| thing leans, | may as well take care o
myself as any one else. Everybody fol
himself seems to be the rule on these oc
casions. So off streaked to the cattle
pens to find Smith, who is my neighbor
t you know. Smith is in the patent bul
, line. (Mr. z. evidently means "improv
, ed.") Says |, Smith, you're shown:
bulls, and am showing old Nance, ant
2 | guess il merit counts we can win. Anc
t that's the talk on paper" Then | tolC
q him what I'd heard about the committee
"Is that so?"
EXACTLY"
r well, think old Nance is the bes
t mare in the yard"
G And you have got the best bull on thu
ground"
> Then told him we must be up at tn,
D tent in time.
e Well, sure enough, when the commit
tees were made up, | was on Smiths bul
committee, and he was on the mare com
> mttee.
c THE COMMITTEE GOES OUT
t The head man took the book, as hac
:. the things in it, and we were introduced
to each other. and went down to look a
j the bulls.-We were on the red bulls. 81
t we went along and looked at them, ant
q | didn't say much till we came to Smith
bull, and looked at him pretty carefully
pulled his tail, punched my fingers into
: his ribs, and went through the motions
h as had seen the Others. Says |, thar
: n bull that looks like it," Smith hao
combed him all over with II fine toothet
, comb, and brushed him with hair brush
and he did look slick, for he was just a
G fat as a hog. And from all saw, thnl
n fat at Fairs, like the lawyer said abou
!, charity covers multitude OF sins.
:, GETS THE HORNS PoKED AT HIN.
II Just as ] said that the fellow VIII
e had bull in the next stall comes up t
me pretty fierce, and says he:
WHAT do you know about bulls"
G "Well," says |, II think know wha
Al ,,o ,,paI for in INV cantion -
= May be-" says he, you are on tn
y committee?"
IS II have that honor" says /.
IS "But," says he, "that bull hain't &C
is any pedigree"
y "Well.n says !, she had father an
u mother didn't he?"
"Oh! yes, but then nobody knows VIII
& they were."
sc "Well, then, nobody knows but the
>, were just as likely as your bulls p
?" rents"
a "But sir, look at my pedigree. Thei
&c it is, sir. Got by imported Shrt-tail ol
IT of Skim-milk, by Thunder" and i
,f showed a string OF names as long as yol
arm.
"Well," says to the committee, "a,
r. we to Judge the pedigree or the animal!
d And they said "the animal of coursei
to "Then," said to the fellow, "will yo,
rs bull get better stock than this?"
Ds "Of course he will," says he, "for he
u got pedeigree, and that bull hain't."
y, WELL" says l, "your bull has got som
rs body to brag for him, and the 9th
I'd hasn't, that's certain" And that sort
IS, knocked him. But" says /, "I've know
people who felt grand over their pedgre
,o and I've seen heap of people wi
y, couldn't go further back than their fat
nu ~. ,.nl mot nor ihnt hannal than, oil