Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-10-05

and have grown up strong and healthy, and a
farmers outfit is no fit at all without these ma
chimes.
The only cotton mill in the state $50 they say)
is located here. 1t is small model mill, run
ming full speed at present on seamless bags for
grain, producing each day "big pie;;" but
natures bounty about Rockford is too much for
one cotton mill on bags. So judge, as no
ticed the familiar stamp, "Amoskeag-a seam
less" fraternizing with Rockford make. Hi
nos in this comparison did not suffer.
A paper mill, for the manufacture Of straw
paper, is running with commeudable industry,
yet, judging from the enormous straw "ricks, ="
to be seen outlying every mans farm yard, we
should say that water power and machinery
can't catch up with the supply.
The country about Rockford is the finest in
the state On our farm, some three miles from
the city, we had unlimited opportunity for OBJ
| seryaton. The farm is owned by the Martin
Brothers, and when you have tramped all over
their grounds YOU have seen 1000 acres of as
| handsome land as you would wish to
see; and cannot imagine any improvement.
| They have this season about two hundred acres
| in corn, and any Worcester county farmer look
ing over this corn field would most surely be
AMAZED, and ready TO acknowledge the corn.
Fifty to sixty bushels per acre is a fair yield.
This years corn product makes smiling faces at
the Martins farm; their two hundred cows,
horses enough for city livery stable, neat cat
tie not counted, and those other kind of cattle
called hogs, that could not be counted, all hav-
ing good appetites, and industrious feeders, so
that before another seed time and harvest, the
ten thousand bushels of corn and other products
of the farm will get thiuned out some.
The Martins furnish abundance OF pure milk
to the citizens of Rockford. They do not water
the same, and one good reason why they do not
is because the water in this vicinity is not good
enough for such companionship. They have a
cheese factory of their own, and undoubtedly
claim to excel our Worcester county in quality
of cheese made. A horsepower machine on
the farm with ten sturdy horses as motive pow
er, was threshing out oats at the rate of one
thousand bushels per day, and they had little
more threshing to do when left.
The Winnebago agricultural society had its
seventeenth annual exhibition here during the
week ending the 23d inst. The show was big
one, and parties, looking like honest judges,
averred that the display was the finest
ever made by the society, and if a generous
attendance on the grounds was a guarantee of a
meritorious show-a good show they had. The
fair grounds are quite near to the business center
of the city, and are peculiarly laid out by ma
ture for the uses to which they have been dedi-
Gated. One of the finest displays l ever wit
messed was the exhibition of stock in the grand
march around the trotting course of the grounds.
The pageant was led by six handsome mules
twho ever saw handsome mule?) drawing
huge Pennsylvania wagon, more ancient than
pretty, looking more like a Gloucester fishing
schooner than wheeled vehicle for use. This
rig belonged to Simon Ruble, of Beot stock
farm notoriety. Mr.. Ruble's imported Norman
horses were on the grounds attracting universal
| attention.
Mahomet, only five years DID, weighs 1000
pounds and is valued at SO 900. Ruble has an
| enviable farm. and looking at the man / should
say that his farm had not been gained on {
feather bed. Since seeing these Norman horses
Imore fully appreciate Rosa Bonheur's wonder
full painting, "The Horse Fair"
Going the grand round of the fair ground
seeing horses, cattle, sheep and swine, listening
to the eulogizing, expressive remarks ofeach eX
hibitor, expounding the reason why his horse
cow, sheep or hog, was the best, l was forcibly
reminded of quotation from Shakespeare, Of
some other man, l. G.:
(Which are the most beautiful birds?
My little ones, said the crow"
Fruits, especially apples, are in wonderful
abundance in this section of the state, and the
| display in floral hall was exceedingly fine.
Rockford people and Winnebago county may
well rejoice over the perfect success of their late
far, only regretting the almost insufferable
DUST put in lively motion by persistent wind
on the last day of the fair. The proverb says:
''There are no fans in hell" Rockford must be
better place, for the fans few days past have
been going briskly, and as streets and roads
have not tasted water for nearly four months,
you are further reminded of dust.
Winnebago farmers can put the following
quotation in their pockets, and not feel as
though they had stolen something:
"Whoever can make two ears of corn or two
blades of grass grow where only one grew be-
fore will deserve better of mankind, and do more
essential service to his country than the whole
race of politicians put together not excepting
| our own Ben" &c.