Daily Davenport Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1864-1874, 1865-09-14
DAILY'DEM0


Mac Bon4s
. The officers e ~ s>ala Agrisuliarsl
Society give every assusancs lat H. -
preaching State Fair, TO be held 1t Bur
Aington on the 2eth, 27tb, 2sth and 2ath
ofssptcnbcr. viiihs n allr~pscp worthy
q Iowa entespfls ana sericultassl devel
opment The Fair is to be held on thu
grounds ofthe Dcs Moines County Agri
cultural Society, located about one Apd {
half miles from the business portion Of Bur
hngton.
The Committee says:
The grounds comprise thirty acres
and are enclosed with tight board fence
eight feet high. There are five hundred
stalls for cattle and h0rses, pens for sheer
and swine, commodious halls for the pro
tsction and display Of fine arts, domestit
industry, products Of the orchard, vine
yard, garden and fire. side There is also
a splendid half milo track, forty feet vide
and an amphitheatcr that will comfortably
seat three thousand persons. The arrange
merits will be perfected for successful
exhibition. The premiums have been in
creased above former years, and very great
inducements are offered to stock raisers, Il
inventions, mechanics, and to all classes oi
6nc arts and domestic economy to bring
the products of their industry and ska
into friendly competition. The local com
mittec will make arrangements Tor the
safe, speedy and comfortable transportation
of people from the city to the grounds -
Thrtlffercnt railroads in the State and
the several Mississippi packet companies
make the usual acknowledgements al
half fare, and stock free. The hotel keep
srs agree 70 entertain visitors st their usual
rates per day
On this latter point the hotel charges
there is positive assurance that the imposi
tions so loudly complained of last year
will not be repeated. For the credit OF
Burlington, no less than for the fair faAe
Of our State, it is to he hoped that the
promise will be fully kept. We doubt
not that it will, and urge all our farmer
readers who can possibly do go to visit the
Fair and exhibit specimens Of the pro-
duct Of their fields, garden, pantry OF
workroom:
The Illinois state Fair.
We avail ourselves of the following well
condensed review of the Illinois State Fair,
held at Chicago, last week, given by the
Burlington Hawkeys:
The exhibition Of stock and machinery
exceeded any former display in the Westl
Among the fine cattle on the ground were
some from Iowa, which attracted consider
able attention. c. d. Bent, of Grand View,
Louisa county, sent very superior herd of
thirteen Devons, including a couple OF
y lendid bulls. The herd is one which
speaks highly "a favor of the stock grow
ing facilities of the State of Iowa. W. II.
Beverly had IL herd Of short horns, among
them Patrick Henry u splendid two.
ycar-0ld bull of magnificent proportions
and good antccslcnts, and Mr.. Clay u lot
ot DevOns on exhibition. John Wentworth,
from his farm near Chicago, introduced q
herd of short horns, among others Con
stance and Thorndale, imported in 1857
Thofulalc,s-R red bull, a magnificent ani.
NAL, scartc three years old, ly Duke oi
Geneva; dam Mistress Gwynne lie also
sent a splsndid Alderncy COW with bull
calf, tdtompctc for special premium. John
II. Spears Of Menard, has a splendid herd
of fourteen Durhams, including the cele-
brat,d 5" Duke Of Menard.' five years old
The herd is n beautiful collection of ami
mails. James Hill, Of Macon county, Hi
nois, had thirteen very fine cattle Of III.
Durham breed. some Of which will beal
comparison with any in the world. j. IL
Pickerill, of Macon. we'll known 'culti
vator" of the breed, had also herd Of
splendid cattle. J. c. Bone, of Sangamon
county, had herd of short horns, and the
Insane Asylum ut jacksonville sent . very
fine lot Of Durhams, eighteen in nunll,er
including two bulls, ten cows and six
calves. u. A. Gage, James H. Brown 4
Son, Of Sangamon, and others from the
great cattle region Of the Prairie State, in
iroducel their best stock for the show
The premiums on stock we're liberal. The
display of horses was not very large. The
show of sheep and swine were unprece
d.ntcd. The display of agricultural ma
chincry was the largest ever on exhibition
at one placc-entirely too much to be seen