Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1860-10-05
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Mercer COunty Fair

\ FRIEND MAHlN-As you announced IN m.
Journal the other day, several citizens o
Auscatne, both ladies and gentlemen, wen
over to pay our good friends in Illinois /.
social visit and to attend their County Fair
1savasaa most delighttuItrip, through q ricl
farming and fruitful courtry. W 8 went down
ctG aDlury's Mill, and on the timber ridge
near the Mississippi bluff arose Eliza Creek
thence easterly through the rich rolling prai
rle; and returned by road farther east,
more in the prairie. So we had a chance Of
seeing the more of this fire country from,
whence so much of our valuable trade comes
with its rich products of the field, the far
animals, the dairy, aad the more tenptil 9
fruits Of the orchard. err ra,,iaae@., aa59G Il
The Fair was great success for /. County
Fair. We expected to see agricultural mat
ters properly attended to, in one of the bes,
farming counties in the State of Illinois.
which is saying great deal for any county.
But we did not expect to meet quite 90 large
a crowd OF people. Ithink the nu.nberlyas
equal 10 any State Fair held at Mascatine.
We were told by the Treasurer that it
would be sate to calculate the receipt. at
something oyeE 81 900 - hence, as many
went in by families, and by the crowd upon
a ten acre lot, we would estimate the MIN
Der at nearly 1000 people. They are united
there in trying to support their County Fair
have no Jealousy between town and coun-
try for fear one will do more than the other
or the other will DO less-no trying to see
how much money they can get out of the
Treasury, bat first see that the Treasury is
replenished before they pay high sala ries,
long bills and big premiums .- .-.
Tie stock OF horses was very fair. both
stud and team noises, and plenty of colts
which s'promi,e we'll" . ..-.....
Catts.-A few good On s, and but few. and
none superior. ..
One lot of six sheep comprised tie stock /! |
A little more timothy and bluegrass, (goo0 |
Kentucky blue-gra>s) with lite white c!o-
Ver-you Can find the seed Ut the stores in !
Muscatine. Mixed husbanLry is the true
policy. Oh, what relief it would have been
TO have had a halt ton of wool those Wei
seasons, when our wheat and corn failed
Hogs.-A very good show, bus We did
1ot see those fine iatteung herds of hogs
'oout the farms, as we drove up and down
The country.
There was meagre SOW Of farming uten-
a1 The mechanics We're no. out. There
vas the largest underground trainer ever
aw 1t Won run five !e4t deep, and make
drain large enough tor a small brook. The
'wner sad he could put it through our wet
loughs at Is cents per rod. Farmers. sci
hese drainers to work! Nearly all the tes-
imony is in favor of them.
Our friend Mr.. Pratt was on the eround
With one OF 'l'ickey's seed sowers," and the
INDICATIONS were that it would stake" among
oUd farmer..
ffuats,-Little else than apples, AID they
Vere IN extensive assortments, and many of
hem the best varieties of our country. Our
fiend McWhorten has been in the nursery
usiness in the county SO long that his trees
the farmers orchards are now showing
heir fruits. The general testimony was that
ak-bluff lands were best for tie orchard, vet
'e visited some. most beautiful and thrifty
richards in the prairie.
The domestic goods of ladies' manufacture
Fere various, numerous, and some of them
and others useful. A lady's fine
ress, which had been rent and u1endea &C.
ording to the science Of mending, was On
Whether the lady was married
r single. do not know, but this sbo we'd an
onest qualification for the office. SoYe
u'ts of great curiosity and labor. Less sit
ing and St wing, and more out door work in
lie garden, and your steps towards the
'raue sciN not be so rupi@. Let fruits an
owers take the place of the tedious stitches.
.a..s SuEL FOSTER.