Daily Democrat and news. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1859-1864, 1861-09-16
4ICHTH ANNUAL 1XHIDlTION
seett County Agricultural sss isty.
the LAST DAY OF TnH PAln.
PAYMENT OF PREAIUMS.


with prospect. Of tvlerably fair day. after
the heavy rain Of Friday afternoon and night
During the forenoon there was but little
done besides pertecting the arrangements foi
the closing sxsscissA The track vas too heavy
for making any displsy Of speed. or for show
ing the cattle IN grand cavslcads within the
trotting arena. The committee passed around
and tied the red tickets upon the articles which
the respective Committees had designated a.
the most worthy.
In view of the mastery efforts Of the stallion
Black Tiger. the Board decided 70 award him
q complimentary premium OF twsnt, do..a.s'
pom Visiting the stock after the Commit
tee had paesed around, We noticed the hne
herd Of Devon. OF II. n. Washton, of Du'
rant. hsadsoosly decorated. In thas line hs
has The best cattle In the ststs. and takes juss
pride in showing the result Of bis lsboss. W.
believe that Mr. ". carried away not less than
seven prizes. amounting to about forty dollars.
We wish be had taken twice - much.
Among the Swine Vim. Cressler, Of this
county, figured the most extensively in red
cards. HE hogs are Of the Chester White
breed, and are juet such as our farmers can
| make money raising. No nan in this county
has been more successful than he In rsisiDg
Swine. and Of him the farming community
will DO we'll to secure the Chester White stock.
They mature at an early age and are well
made, heavy and produce delicious pork.
Among the Bulle, Beluos, owned by Bah.
cock, OF Cordova, took the red card as the best
OF any sge or breed. Fifty dollars we're well
awarded to II. N Washbon.
| Among the Horses oui friend Simpson, Of
Sabula. figured largely in prizes. He conld
! not nave done ,ne thing up ilore pIuua., ..au
he disposed of .he cards himself The cele-
bra "A Blackbird ewert the 800 pile, aaG fol-
! 10 Cd it Up with sew e.al other handsome set
tier upon the SOcisty's treasury. Verify. be
has not Lad his trip or trouble for moth.
ing We believe he carried away about 500
cash this trial. No one disputes his right 70
The money. The owner Of You"g Bashaw
took svay Q cool hundred dollars as his share
of the weeks labor. He earned his money,
and can have q chance to carr itsgsin on the
same eround. Tom Hysr took away 6ftJ dol
lars Of well earned money, and Black Tiger
twenty dol,ars. In al, these four horses took
three hundred dollars out Of the Sc ciety. To
say that they brought in five times that
amount would not be overtslking the matter
in the leaet. They are the REST horses that
we krow Of. and justly entitled to the
prizes bestowed upon them.
10 Fruit. Mr.. Psarsall. Of Rock leland coan.
ty took the leading premium for tie best col
lection. but John Evans, Of Pleasant Valley
came in on the largest variety. Our friend
Sewsn Foeter, Q successful nursery man Of
Muscatine, came so near upon the fret that the
Judges felt compelled to award him a discre.
jlst,y merted. Chas. Hetzel Of Blue Grass
l.. 5. Blackman. Of Buffalo, Enoch Meap, OF
Davenport, J. NJ. ID. Burrows, Of this city
Dan B. shaw, Of Buffalo, and Geo. Custer, Of
Pleasant Valley. came in with handsome va.
r:e,ies and took away fine premiums.
The premium for the beet conducted farm
in Scott county, was very appropriately given
10 Edwin Smith, tie President Of the Society,
though the farm OF Chss Hetzel, OF Blue Grass.
stood fair chance OF obtaining it.
In the agricultural machinery department.
Davis, Watson l. Co. took the heaviest premi
ums. in threshiDg machines. horse powers, etc.
and Chsuncy krum led off handsomely Oh
plows. L. s. Vieie & Co. took several premi
ums as also jii John Deere, OF Hofine
AFTERNOON.
Thu aitsrnoos, sxseeisss eoomseesd With
the Orstion BY Judge Dillon, to be found on
the second page of this paper. after which the
SLOW RACE
was called on, end Eve entries came forward
to the stand. Five horees With fancy names
we're mounted BY men, neither Of whom sat
upon his own horse. VIM. Posten rode Irish
Washerwoman. Tom. Kelly rode Flora Temple,
H. c. Cressler rode Ethan Allen, Fl. S. Lower
rode CONSERVATION and Chss. Horton rode
Patchen. They were sent around once, and q
distance fixed. Tue slowest horse vac to have
the purse, (S25) provided be Vas not distanced.
The fret heat was won by CONSERVATION. On
the second heat Pstehen struek out at . wild
rate. He is . feet animal, and WAS held back
in the first heat - . blind undoubtedly, but
at this time he dashed off with . degree Of
fury which would have astonished . young
tornado. The others, with but one exception,
did not seem to understand the game, and telt
hack. forretful of the distance pole and the
animated locomotive before them. Patehen
constantly opened the gap st every stride and
cau g down the home stretch under the lash,
| entirely distancing the other four competitors.
and much to their chagrin took the purse.
Time l.06
Bstvssn the fret and second hssts, . laugh.
die tascs cone Of. eossistiae .ei . race b.
tvssn two Of the most hidsous lookirg Jacks
In the whole county. The smaller enc got Of
Handsomely q lazy walk under vigorous
lsshss. snd Dssson Dsrdens rider found his
besst bolting = ssd fro, hest auosg the crowd
and then over o. The sraa. presenting . most
ludieroos appearance. The little one Get MP
lssy lcps, and the Dsseoa settled down into
snail psss under the most anusrcitol eudeslisx.
The little one vss sntieed in By sharp sppli.
cation Of the whip and seduStiye cabbage.
lsai held BY an interested party q provok.
ing distance before his nose. asd tAs D,a,ea
loped In few rods behind. not in the lea,s