The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1870-11-22
THE BARNWELL FAIR.
4 DISPLAY ToBE PROUD OF.
The Official List of Premiums.
rreoM ORR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT

rFRoM OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT
BARywELL, s. c., November Is.
The second Annual Fair of the Barnwell 4g-
rlcultural and Mechanical Society closed to-day.
The weather was fine throughout, the skies being
clear and cloudess, and the air cool and bracing.
There were hundreds Of ladies and gentlemen
present from all sections Of the county and
State, the beauty and fashion as well as the
sturdy yeomanry being represented In imm ense
numbers. The grounds embraced an area Of
about twenty acres and were quite tastefully ar
ranged. ~"
The articles on exhibition Included almost every
thing in the way OF cotton horses, cattle, house
hold and domestic manufactures, drawings and
paintings farming implements, poultry, besides
large number OF articles OF miscellaneous char
acter.
The fair building was handsomely decorated,
and contained great many articles OF domestic
manufacture, Including wines, Jellies, pickles,
preserves, quilts, embroidery, DC
Colonel D. Wyatt Aiken, on the second day, de.
li7ered an excellent address, in which he took oc-
casion to warn his listeners against the false sys-
TEN of agriculture practiced In anteoelluha days,
and gave them some wholesome advice as to the
future. ...,..,, y.5
Tie fair may justly be considered decided
success, and too much praise cannot be accorded
the officers Of the society for the energy and per-
severance displayed In bringing about this result.
1t is certainly gratifying to know that such gen.
eral Interest is manifested In the agricultural In
terests Of the country, and we congratulate the
people OF the county on these signs or returning
prosperity Tie results Of these efforts will be to
add materially to our prosperity. II political in
dependence be thing impossible, surely social
independencei is within our reach for the fertility
Of our soil, the salubrity Of our climate, and our
annually Increasing harvests will combine to In.
sure 1t. Let us look With confidence and hope to
the future, and let o commendable unanimity
mark our efforts to raise our State and people to
The following is the of1cal list OF premiums
awarded at the second annual fair OF the 3D.
ciety:
Field Crops.
Greatest yield OF cotton from one acre, upland
Mrs. T. ]. Counts, silver.
Greatest yield OF cotton from one acre. upland
II. B. Cave, silver.
Greatest yield OF whest-W. q. Duncan, silver.
Greatest Weld of barley-W. II. Duncan, silver.
Greatest yield OF ouckwheat-W. b. duncan,
silver.
Best bushel Of wheat-W. Wallace Harley, silver.
Best bushel OF corn-W. L. woodward, silver.
Best bashel OF barley-W. d. Duncan. silver.
Best bushel OF buckwheat-W d. Duncan,
silver.
Rest bushe OF rlce-W. q. Duncan, silver.
Rest busfel OF oats-S. W. Troth, silver.
Best bale native grass hay--Johnson Hagood,
silver.
Best bale pea vine hay-W. L. Woodward, silver.
Best gallor West India cane sJrup-W. b. Dnn-
Best virginia short staple cotton-B. b. Brown,
Best and greatest variety OF field crops grown
by exhibItors-W. H. Duncan, silver.
Honorable mention Of one acre OF cotton OF
Jones N. Williams.