The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1863-09-12
Tho County Fair.

count.
And first and foremost, it must be adj
mitted that in all save the exhibition OF
horses and in the trotting matches, or, In
plain English, racing, the fair has been a
signal failure. The exhibition of cattle
was only fair, and much behind previous
fairs. Of swine there were but two or
three entries; sheep, but one; poultry,
three or four; dairy products, half a doz-
en- farm products, ditto vegetables, a
few by NJ Brush and Patrick Hayes; pro-
ducts of orchard, an entry or two by w.
D. Neff, few by Patrick Hayes and few
oy Leland; Of garden, few entries by
Patrick Hayes; of fruit, some splendid
exotic grapes by B. C. Cook, and some
beautiful green gage plums by Mr.. Leland ;
flowers, few entries by Mrs. Raymond
and Mrs Brush Green House plants, one
entry bv B. C.. Cook. In the way of pant
ings, &c, some very fine specimens of da>
guerrean pictures were presented by j. E.
Porter and by Mr.. Alshuler of this city,
and by Bowen & Rawson of Peru. As to
ladies fancy work, the show was unusually
meagre; but the few articles on exhibition
were certainly very superior. Mr.. Sweet.
zer and Mr.. Fyfe showed fine specimens of
their work in tho way of sickIes, &c, and
Mr.. Stone, and we believe Messrs. Barton
& Markle, had on exhibition quite fine
lot of saddlery ware. In farm implements,
Mr. Hunsberger showed half a dozen ar
ticles which lie is selling at his agricultu-
raj store in this city Gilman & Co. ex-
hibited the celebrated Balls Ohio Reaper
and Browns cornrlanter, articles which
they are manufacturing, and which it is
not inviduous to say, have few superiols
in their line Mr.. Maierhofer, as usual,
exhibited his Incompatible plows. Huston
& Macy exhibited their popular CORN
shelter, and corn planter, both Of which
they are manufacturing in this city
Address & Scott exhibited some fine corn
cultivators. Mr. Mason, for Cushman d.
Co., exhibited corn shelter that is Curl
osity in its way. 1t not only shells corn
equal to any other, but also cuts straw
grinds apples for cider making, and cuts
up roots, &c, for feeding to cattle. 1t is a
cheap, strongly built, compact machine,
and certainly seems fully adapted to either
of these purposes lie also exhibited q
cane crusher, corn planter and horse power,
all machines made by Cushman d Co., of
this city, and believed to have no superior
in their way. And lastly, Mr.. Gage, of
Dowagiac, Mich, exhibited his celebrated
roller seed drill, an implement which we
should say was eminently worthy the at
tention Of farmers.
of course, in this hasty glance, We have
omitted many articles-sewlng machines
for instance, of which there were half a
dozen, the knitting machine, quite an at
traction, and some others We propose
when we come to make up a report of the
premiums awarded, and get the reports OF
the COMMITTEES, to notice, not only those
articles, but many others more in detail.
AS we said, the great feature Of the fair
was the trotting. The first days trot was
between Black Douglas, Prophet, La Sale
Tom and Kitty Douglas, mile heats, three
best in fve-won by Black Douglas il
three heats.
The second day g trot was between Kitty
Dou .las, and Prophet, from Morris, ant
two other horses entered to fill up. il
was beautiful race betwee the first two
"a neck and neck affair throughout, Kitty
Douglas only winning by having the in
side track. the third best was won by J
w. Armstrong, against spirited compel
itor whose name we failed to remember.
The feature of yesterday was to be
Ladies equcstrlanship in the morning, anc
trot in the afternoon. AS the ladies
however, were not ready in the morning
both we're thrown upon the afternoon,
which prolonged the exercises to SO late
! an hour that we were unable to stay and
report We shall give the result and Sin.
cidents" in our next.
The fair We said, was failure, and it i,
easily accounted for. For several years
chanics in the exhibition has been evi
IDENTITY slackening, and the managers o
the Society, to avert financial ruin, have
been obliged to cater to the taste for horse
racing. So the fair has run into horses
Any number of horses were entered fol
premium in all divisions a horse race
always draws crowd, and SO plenty o
tickets are sold The Ereceipts foot W
large as ever, and financially all is fair and
prosperous. The only remedy is, for the
farmers and mechanics to step forward
and support their own fair. If they fail tc
do so, they must not grumbie if it is mo
nopolized by the horse Jockeys @
! GERRIr SMITH has also turned copper
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