Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1871-10-19
For the Repabiicsn.' s%N
The Eate Agricultural Fair
EDITORS REPBvLicAs ). was pleased

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There were quite a number Of, meritori-
Gus machines FOR plowing. seeding and
harvesting, not mentipned-prob badly for
the reason that the exhibitors themselves
did not take, sufficient interest in their
own products to call special attention to
them, and possibly You may have neglect
ed to advertise them editorially for want
of proper Inducements in material aid.
| More room is needed under cover, for
the display of manufactured articles, ta-
BILE comforts, fruits, flower. pictures, etc.
The house prepared was we'll filed A
few years of success, such as was hs d this
year, under the careful and vigilant man
ageincnt of intelligent, go ahead, working
farmers, such as filled the offices, would
produce fund equal TO all the necessities
Of the Society.
The display of cat;le waz good, not
| large, but fair in quality. JOS. Wester-
velt had milch COW on exhibition, which
for symmetry of form and gentle appear
ance, would attract notice and con1aiand
a premium where stock raising is spe.
cialty. Mr.. Sherman's Berkshire pigs
were about as fine specimens Of porkcrs
as VIC have ever seen. l heard at least
one enthusiastic farmer say that better
| pigs were never raised Some fine sheep
| were on exhibition, but the display might
have been much better Many Of the
farmers, who are relied upon to make
fairs interesting, We're afraid that It wuuld
| not be much of a show, and the officers
would run the Society in debt. as the
] town chaps had done when thev under
| took to conduct the fairs on former occa-
sions; and l heard several of them say.
Il had some fine stock at home that I
wish | had entered for preminna, no:
merely for the sake of the money and rep.
utation it would bring me, but for the
| qualification Of those who are fond
of seeing good, t.ne looking stock
| and for the encouragement of stock rails
ing in MARSHALL county" did not see a
chicken, nor turkey, nor goose, nor
any of the fcathered tribe-but was told
there were some very respectable hens
and their Jetlsrs on exhibition.
was very much pleased with the ad-
dresses, especially that part Of Mr. Reeves
speech in NAich he said:
II is Of little use f}r me 20 stand hero
and talk | an not tie man to make YOUR
fairs successful. am lawyer. All the
doctors, lawyers, preachers and merchants
cannot make IA fair. We are drones. We
consume. We add nothing to the wealth
Of the country. 1t is the men who pro-
duce, the hard handed laborers, the far
mer, the mechanic, artiZan designer. in
! ventor and manufacturer, W ho make fairs;
the man who plants a valuable seed and
rears something, not the man who hides
it; the man whose cunning hands fashion
from wood and metal Il useful article.
With d pencil can draw on paper a nice
moriicc and tenon but give me a square
ana scratch, The auger, chisel and mallet,
and cannot make it on timber. But
down here Is boy-poor; can't read or
WIlte-an apprentice. He can't draw it
on paper, but he can fashion it on the
stick, and it goes into house and be.
COMES property. l walk on good car
pet, Sit on good chair, sleep in a good
bed, sit down to good table, but pro-
duce none OF them. The chemist and in
ventor. the mechanic and manufacturer,
! the STOCK grower aud farmer, and the Ia
bore1 end designer, these are the men who
must make your fair Il success. | may
| help to Offer them inducements, but such
men as | .aay talk ever so much, and af-
ter all you farmers and mechanics must
take hold and produce and bring your pro-
ductions here Or there will be no fair"
How could words he placed together in
SO short a string as the first and second
sentences quoted, so as to contain more
truths The rest Of the speech was good,
but was less concentrated and more poet
&c. Mr.. Reeve could draw on PAPER
! nice post and post hole; but if he had the
/ sharpeSt of broad-axes, and one Of Ames'
best shovels, he could not hew out a7post
nor dig hole TO set it in. That farmer
who would feel very awkward and much
out of place on the rostrum making a
stump speech, could make a first rate
| fence, if he only had the assistance of a
| sharp lawyer to make draft of it, and
show him how it do the work. The
farmers are absolutely necessary to make
fair interesting; but then they must
have scientific officers, who know how 10
get the thing up, 10 tell them " hat to do,
| and how to doIt. Those fellows who do not
own good carpets, chairs, beds, &c, are
just the Kind of material out of which to
make good fair, but they are not worth
cent for officers. This is all perfectly
| plain to man who turns the subject over
and looks at it carefally and phiioscphi-
cally. Mr.. Reeve understands this per-
fectly, and he succeeded in carrying out
his theory admirably in the eiectionof of.
lccrs for the ensuing year. l shall ex-
pect great things of the new officers not
| withstanding the fact that real in earnest
farmers are not very largely represented.
| had hoped that some little respect
i | would have been shownto such men as
". ]. Hand, d. S. Conger Elias Jacoby
and ]. w. J&coby, for their very scom-
mendable efforts in getting up the most
| successful fair ever h5ld in Marshall
county; but then they know nothing
about managi ing such things for the ben
eft of acourt-housering. j intend to do all
| can to makethe next fair asuccess, even
ii can bring nothing hctter than NOR
tice for exhibition. PooR Boy.
| The New York Express says: Each
tick of the clock for the last ten years has
added 1928 to our national debt, and ev
cry time the second hand has made
complete revolution, S4J5.So have accu-
mulated to that already weighty incu-
bus. At every inhalation $l6.56 have
been put upon the debt side, and in what