New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1870-04-28
LOUISIANA STATE FAIR-FIFTH DAY.

LOUISIANA STATE FAIR-FIFTH DAY.
With pleasant though warm weathe
yesterday forenoon, and the closing of tn
principal places Of business in the city a
} eleven A. NJ, there was an immense crow,
} of the merchants and mechanics of th
J city, with their assistants and employees
at the grounds Of the Mechanics and Ag
ricultural Associations Fair. In addition
to these, almost every State in the Unior
was represented-certainly every Southern
State-end we observed Representatives
from the far-off Nevada, from Iowa lin the
persons of Messrs. Spoford and Shaffer
vice-president and secretary of the Iowa
State Agricultural Society, from Michi.
gan, Ohio, Massachusetts,, etc. 1t was
estimated by good judges that twenty
thousand people were in attendance yes.
terday, making a perfect jam in all the
halls Of exhibition. The receipts at the
gate were some $4,000, which would indi-
cate the number of visitors to be twenty
or thirty thousand people.
This may be called success. The
daily receipts must average $4,000, or
s27 900 for the nine days originally az
signed for the fair.
But it rained. hard, as usual, at three
P. NJ, interrupting the sports of the ring
The exhibition of the live stock of class
one, department II, by Superintendent
Brown, ETC., together with the races,
which we're to have been of dash of one
mile heats, for racking horses, and mile
heats for trotters of all sorts, best three in
five
The result from these daily rains must
be an extension Of the time devoted to the
fair, for week or so longer.
The success is such that a worlds ex-
hibition is already talked of for New
Orleans, in 1875.
1t is now evident to all that the time
allotted to the fair is insufficient More
than fifty parties would yet make entries
in Superintendent Bailey's department
alone (E, agricultural implements, ma
chinery, etc., if permitted. A month
would be none too long for this fair to
remain open. That of the New York In
stitute-similar in many respects to this
holds for two moaths with profit. It's re-
ceipts for last exposition were 100000:
expenses, $4,000; net gain, $4,000.
hn
ew days to one special purpose, then |
ew days to another, making sugar and |
lotion machinery the speciality of one Pc
.iod, live stock for another, fruits, flowers,
md vegetables, for another, and races to
mother! A second or third address might
'e an advantage, during the progress of
he Fair. AS it is at present, every one is
efogged by the too great number Of mat
ers to attract the attention. True, there is
DOM and verge enough for all. This Asso-
iation has one hundred and ten acres Of
round, while the most excellent Fair of
t. Louis, was for long time held upon
twenty-five acres only.
But we will not criticise where there is
} much that is good. This fair is doing ,
reat work for our city, onr State, and for
le whole South-aye, for the North as
ell. Numbers of old fogy planters, who
ice believed nothing but the pillow and
'e were needed, were yesterday inter- q
ted witnesses Of the various kinds Of +
lproved machinery from the North; the c
gar evaporators, boilers, clarifyers,
anulators, drainers, ETC., and OF the cot >
n gins, presses, linters, rice hullers,
unders, ETC., knowing that the present 6
* of laborers in the country necessitates +,
9 use of these lator-saving machines. Il
'rtherners, too, were on the ground, in g
ligent editors and men who are seeking Of
W homes, looking to see if there was W
employment for the Northern farmer is
Re in raising broom-corn, grasses, fruits,
5etables, and other things, besides
gar, rice and cotton, to which the South a.
hitherto been SO exclusively devoted. ~
e meagre show Of such articles, and the q" q
'orts Of the committees upon them, f.
WED that there is ample room for all. vi
flowing upon that portion of the av
unds devoted to experimental blowing re
J interrupted by the rain yesterday; go
number of plows were tried. There tn
been and will be no regular blowing
tch, some of our daily journals reports
he contrary, FL
Isl
o our agreeable surprise there was an no
rovement in Floral Hall yesterday. by me
addition of buds, boquets, and large go
ndance of beautiful ladies. A splendid gr
uet of over yard and half in circum. ex
nee was placed there by Pierre & Du- ao
J, the horticulturists, who already had i''
steful miniature garden on exhibition. !
few excellent vegetables and some of
erb strawberries of the Hovey and the eri
sons Albany seedlings varieties We're Gu
1 in Department A. These were so CIV
ted as to be but an aggravation. 1t is
: to see that the Association Will save !
u OF the prizes offered Tor fruits, from grS
absence Of the articles which were cia
ed for. There are no pears, Of Louis ior
! or other growth no ounces, apples AN
oranges nor lemons, bananas, nor Wv
ltains; no mespelus, no grapes, no
hing. Ing
ut, mon D1eu! there are washing
hines. Their name is legion. A good
ion of the hnildinns and nrnnnds uara