New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1870-03-18
STATE FAIRS,

and particularly OF tins clty' mo
and expected TO give notices OF the same
The fair is to be CONDUCTED under the I'M
mediate auspices and supervision of the |
Agricultural, Mechanical and Biooded
Stock Association of Texas, rules and |
regulations having been adopted that will
secure order and system in the arrange
ment of everything.
The Fair, according to the Union, will
be divided into ten departments, embra-
chg al the products of the country, as
follows:
The first department is divided into the
following classes: iield crops; -four, meal
and gram; bread, cereal fooo; butter ana
cheese; fruits, garden vegetables, roofs,
seeds. ETC.; honey, dried frult, preserves,
pickles, ground spices. canned fruit, meat
and ASA: confectionery, candies, sweet
meats, fruits IN liquor, coTdlals, syrupi, etc,
native wines, spirits, and malt liquors.
The second department Is divided mo
cutlery and edge tools; manufactured IRON
steel copper and brass WORK; nails, cnAins.
iron ware, etc; cotton ties; cooblng stoves,
ranges and heating apparatus; IRON castings
of all kinds; furniture and cabinet WORK,
breilas, manufactured wooden and cotton
goods: boots, shoes, saddlery and trunks;
paper, book binding and printing; brushes,
basket making, coOpering and h5hlng taChie,
gums, pistols and hunting 9pparei; water
titeIers, soda apparatus, refrlgerators, crock
cry and glassware: sawed anu dressed iulh
Der. bricks, lime and marble; joiners' aud
turner's work; vehicles and chIidren's car
Iiages.
The third department is divided as fol
lows: Jewelry aud silverware; piano fortes
and musical instruments; dentistry; sewing
machines; needle work, embroidery, WAX
work; hair work, etc.
The fourth department is CLASSIFIED as foi-
lows: Paintings in Oil and water coiors-
original: crayon drawings. ETC.; electric,
magnetic, and galyaniC apparatus; phlio-
soDhical and surgical instruments, etc.;
photography.
The fifth department has the following
c!assifcatons: Horsepower machines tor
plantation use; power machines Tor gamer
ing crops; machines for preparing crops ior
market; farm and plantation implements,
farm or plantation machinery ana lmple~
ments; implements and machinery; ma
chinery (various); machinery for WorhinS
wood; wheelwright work.
The sixth department is Tiled with the
following classes: Cotton; sugar, syrup,
molasses; leaf tobacco, manufactured u,
bacco, cigars; provisions, sailed and cured
meats: hemp, rope, and Irvine; rosln, p!tch,
tar, tuIp milne ana oil; wool. moss, hioes,
,aliow, and wax; Texas leather; Texas soap.
The seventh department is thus divided
into classes: Draft horses stations, geld ngs
and mares, for single harness; saddle horses;
Thoroughbred horses; mules; jacks ana
ienets: matched horses; sweepstakes Tor all
breeds.
The eighth department has: Tioroughored
cGttle-Devon, Ayrshire, Hereford, Aioer-
new, Bramah. Durham; cattle other tLan
thoroughbred; mich COWS; TAT catue; yoAt
oxen: sheep, long wooded, Southdowns, tat
sheep: Cashmere goatf; swine; poultry,
chickens. ducks, geese, turkeys, pea fowls,
guinea fowls.
Tie ninth department is devoted to dogs
settlers, pointers, Scotch terriers, NeWfouou-
laai.
The tenth departments divided into oeau-
,iful classes roses aud hcrbaceou5 plants;
horal designs.
1t is really refreshing and encouraging
to find our Southern people going SO
generally into these exhibitions OF the
products of the South. These movements
are calculated to stimulate the energies OF
our people in the right direction. The
South is eminentIy and truly an agrIcui-
t1ral country, and her people are now On
the high road to greater wealth and pros
perity than ever before known. The cul-
tiyatiou OF the soil Is about to be brought
to a greater state Of perfection here than
ever before. Our people will vie with
one another and with the people OF the East
North and West in the production OF ali
things that can be grown upon the farm.
Stock will claim more attention than ever
before, and rapid improvement in the
breed Of cattle horses, sheep, hogs and
even poultry may be looked for from this
out. And fruit, something that has been
seriously neglected in tho past in many OF
tie Southern States, will soon become to
be a great source of profit to those of oar
people who have mind to enter upon Its
cultivation. When every farmer here, as
in other sections of our country,
shall think that his farm IS incom-
plete without its orchards, then will
fcuit become plentiful, and when this
their attention TO putting up canned pre-
serves, or they can raise the sugar, and
will have everything that is necessary to
enable them to do 1t, and compete sue
cessfully for market. Canned meats Of
all kinds can be put Up here as well as in
the North. and in Texas, where meats are
50 cheap, this branch business will be enter
Q / into largely before a great many years,
aada large number of persons will eventu
ally thus find employment. Al.
though this is especially an agri'
cultural and stock-raisiog country
that is the best reason why it should also
become manufacturing country; and il
must gradually and rapidly become such
a. the lands are taken up and occupied
| Even now, manufactures Of different
kinds are being introduced all over the
country. This is evidenced by Tie vast
amount of machinery that is being con
stantly shipped TO different parts Of the
Southern country, particularly to Texas
| When a railroad makes its way
into that favored country, which VIZ
hope it will do before great many
months, then, Indeed, there will be stir
ring times in both Louisiana and Texas
Then will New Orleans and Houston
shake hands, and have daily oommunica
ton with each other, and most of the i'm
migrants that now fad their way into thc
| Lone Star State ihrouph the upper part O