The Cleveland leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1865-1865, 1865-09-14

vii be pecunisry success or not.
Special Correspondence If the Clevslsnd LE1D DEB.
COLUMBUS, Sept. 13, 1865.
The State Fair opened to-day under
favorable auspices, and the Sixteenth An.
nusl Exhibition of the State Board of Ag.
riculture gives promise of being the best
and most successful of any. The Fair
Grounds are located in beautiful oak
grove of convenient access from the city.
They have been admirably fitted up in the
asxerAl Departments, and lack only seats
under the shady oaks frr tho rest of tha
heated and weary. The weather is torrid,
but so far no rain, and but little dust
Yesterday was devoted mainly to entries
and arrangement of articles, and up to
noon to-day tbs same work has been going
on. Everything is now in readiness for
sightseeing, and the people are pouring in
by rail and every sort of conveyance, to
enjoy the instructive holiday season. The
receipts for entries and entrance fees so far
exceed any previous State Fair.
We are specially glad to see that North
ern Ohio is we'll represented in nearly
every Department. Messrs. YOunglove,
Massey & Co., make a splendid show of
labor savers from their famous Agricultu-
raj Implement Works in Cleveland; and
the number, variety and superior work
of the implements of husbandry
from similar manufactures in Ohio, evince
the untold value of machinery, in ad-
vsncing the development and growth of
our great commonwealth. Though over
three hundred thousand of her patriotic |
sons have been enrolled in the Union army, |
ne industrial pursuit languishes.
Mr.. John Kelley represents the garden
BIS of Cleveland with fine display OF
thirteen varieties of grapes, twenty-nine of
vegetables and thirty varieties of dshlias.
Mr.. Kelley shows proper spirit touching
Stats Fairs held in Central and Southern
Ohio and is sure to bear off large share
If premiums. He has done SO in the past.
One of the richest and most attractive
displays is from the Cleveland Woolen
Mills of Alton Pope & Sons, consisting of
cassimeres. ladies' cloths, fancy
lAnnels, &c. The goods are all of superior
luAlity, and do great credit to the skill and
of the snterprising manufac-
urers. They are turning out fifteen hun
Lred yards per day, and cannot begin to
.ssasllu- the Aaraa4d fne hair af rIa arlioles
In the Fine Art Hali-extenslYe, au-
nirably arranged and well-6lled, by the
beautiful specimens exhibited by
be Cleveland Business College draw
rowds Of admirers. Fine Art Hall is
luch in advance of any previous exhibition
t State Fairs in Central or Southern Ohio.
In fruits, Erie county bears away the
aim in grapes, Wood county in apples
nd pears, and Huron in Peaches. Mr.. W.
!. Barney, of the Quarry Vineyards, San
usky, exhibits forty choice varieties,
nd D.. @. Richmond six. Mr.. Bar
ey cultivAtes the Adirondac, Anna
concord, Dians, Delaware, Hartford, Pro-
hc, Norton's Virginia Seeding, Rebeccs,
Alliss's by ybrid, Alvey, Crevelling, Catsw-
q, CuyahOgs, Edinburgh, Rerbamont,
onis, Israella, Isabella, Logan, etc, etc
Mr.. h. B. Lum, of Sandusky, has plate
f seeding grapes on exhibition, which he
as tested to be remarkably hardy, pro-
Ifc, and palatable as table fruit. Mr.. L.
an extensive and successful grape grower.
!. We are informed that the crop of grapes
n the main land, Penninsuls, S., in the
-icinity of Sandusky, is much less dam
ged by rot this season than on Kslley's
sland. The crop is an enormous one,
hough some vineyards, especially on the
slAnd, have suffered extensively. There
re but few grapes on exhibition from
jouthsrn Ohio vineyards One exhibitor
f Madeiras from Hamilton county claims
hat all other varieties have bsen affected
" disease this this season, and that the
dadelra is now the most valuable of wine
.rspes.
Messrs. G. s. s. Boult, of the Norwslk
Nurseries, far excel in the show of peaches.
hey exhibit twenty-fOur varieties, many
f the choice early, which they have man-
ged to preserve in presentable condition.
Messrs. Elwanger & Barry, of the Mount
Iope Nurseries, Rochester, N. Y, SIS usual
{ State Fairs in the West show q splen-
id collection of Pears, numbering eighty
We varieties. They also exhibit twenty
wo varieties of Plums, 3 choice collection.
Their enterpriEs in the matter is the more
reditable from the facL that no premiums
re offered on fruits grown out of Ohio.
We must defer notice of Wood county
ruits, &c, till our next j. A H.
ReWsuaDer Account