Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-09-27
Nichols, of ritohburg, N. caswell and W. A
THE RAIL- EXHIBITION.


small boot and shoe establishment, employing min
hands, and one of the celebrated Mckay sewiuj
machines for making boots, where may be seer
boots and shoes in all stages of manufacture. Tn,
Union stone company of Boston exhibited two EN-
DRY Wholesome for sharpening saws and the Other
for and light cutting toOls-also large assert
ment of oil stones and homes The Rollstone ma
chine works OF Fi,chburg eNhibita hand-saw turn
ng-athe, circular-saw and planer The Union ma
chine company of Fitchburg exhibit a steam fir
engine and hose carriage, which elicit much praise
There are quite a number of stoves including tn
Peerless and new American cooking stoves and thu
Oriental paror stove.
The contributions that make the most noise ant
startle everybody with their demonstrations arr
from Haskins' pneumatic alarm company, and con
sist of variety of signals intended for ON rail
roads and everywhere else that noise is necessary
to inform the public of the whereabouts ofanythins
that is discovered by sound. There are many othel
crediiabe contributions of manufactured articles
and in the future this department is TO be made q
special attraction in the exhibitions of the society
In the upper hall there is the usual assortment O.
fruit garden vegetables light manufactured arti
Giles, flowers, paintings, harnesses, etc.
Fruit-The display of fruit is excellent; the pear:
large and handsome, the apples, though not numer
GUS are all good, while the grapes fully sustain the
high reputation of the society for having a large
and choice collection. Among the principal exh
bitors OF pears are DR.. II. Ii. Brigham who has the
largest and best collection, j NJ Twichell, Pierce
and Alvah Crocker. The largest and best lot Of
grapes is exhibited by 4. Palmer of Fitchburg, and
embraces only two varieties, which the Concord
and Deawale p Whiting of Lunenburg A. Whit
ney of Oakdale, e. T. Miles of Fitchburg, and M. S
Heath also have very creditabe displays. G. p
| Hawkins of Fitchburg, j. d. Day of LeOminster
and E. Graham of Lunenburg have some excellent
collections of apples.
The display of garden vegetables is fair though
not remarkable in point of numbers contributors
S. s. Boutwell, of Fitchburg heads the list with q
mammoth squash Weighing los pounds, Alvah
Croker of Fitchburg, has a number of turnips
beets, squashes, potatoes, and cauliiowers, which
are excellent. a. P. Goodrich and L. Pratt OF
Fitchburg and E. Bird of Leominster add much to
the exhibition by their collections, while Nathan
Caswel is the largest exhibitor of potatoes.
Flowers-There wasquite an extensive display of
pot and cut flowers yet they are mostly confined to
a smalli number of contributors. Joseph Jackson
and j. NJ. Sawtell are the largest exhibitors of
flowers in pots. while the cut flowers of J. NJ Saw
tell and Mrs, g. S. Harrington are admirable.
Despite the rain, the forenoon's programme was
carried out to the letter. aud consisted of the trial
of working oxen, working steers, working horses,
the exhibition of town teams and the inspection OF
articles entered for premiums by the various COM
mittees which occupied the time until dinner.
Dinner was served in large tent erected for the
purpose, after which Mr.. johnson, state delegate
from the board of agriculture, was introduced by
the president, Hon. j. H. Jockey. DIR. James X.
Nichols the orator of the day, was then intro
duced, and spoke on the subject of scientific agri-
culture He claimed that the love of mother earth
| in every one was but natural instinct, and COM
pared the eating of plants TO that of an animal or
human being, and stated that every plant was as
particular to the kinds of food it took as was the
most particular of human epicures If we turn
| over pebble in of our brooks, we find on that
| a minute cell from which, at some future day, a
| plant springs The nature of the material gathered
in these cells is the refuse of men and animals and
is there fitted for food for the plants. In plants
and animals there are certain organs though differ
ent in structure, yet having similar office to per.
form. Some plants have their particular kinds OF
| food and cannot be made to thrive on land where
this particular food cannot be found.
The speaker gave very interesting description
of the progress of plants in growing commencing at
the time when the seed is put into the ground to
| the time of maturity, and dwelt for some time on
the different kinds of fertilizers in use carbonate
| of lime, he claimed, of value fertilizer,
while clam and oyster shells are totally worthless.
| He next proceeded TO show the various manners In
which plants supplied with hydrogen. A
gallon of water, he said passed through every stalk
nj wheat in the farmers grain field; and he also
described the manufacture of phosphate of lime
from bones and rocks. After much thought on the
subject the speaker had come to the conclusion
that it was almost an impossibility for manufactur
ers TO furnish a fertilizer worth the money that
farmers were obliged to pay forit and recommend
ed that every farmer should prepare himself so as
| to be able to manufacture his own
fertilizers. An acre of wheat extracts dur
ing the season nearly forty pounds of potash,
and used this fact to show why it is that farms
deteriorated 20 much in the course of a few years
Potatoes, he claimed, were the largest agents EN-.
ployed in consuming the potash In he field. In two
years crop of wheat will use upno more potash
than a crop of wheat would in one year.
The speaker closed his address by giving des.
cription of the different kinds of manure necessary
for the successful cultivation of the various kinds
Of field and garden crops, and showed that in thi,
country were to be obtained some OF the best
manurial agents in the world, all of which were de
| pOslteu ny nature anu discovered DY science.
The delivery of the address occupied nearly an
hour, and was attentively listened to throughout
after which remarks followed by number of dis
distinguished visitors who were present
After dinner the first thug on the programme
the trOt for purse of $3.50, open to all horses
that have never beaten $3.50, for which there were
four entries, all of which appeared at the call OF
the judges. The race was well contested, but the
sIo
speed, and won the race in three straight heats.
The following lisa
SUMMARY.
FITcHBURG, Sept. 26.-Worcester north agricul
tura society purse Of SEQ, open TO all horses thai
have never beaten So 800 to first, S35 to second
Sl5 to third
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Next came the foot race, for which there wer,
four entries, which won after close and OK
citing contest by H. Manning, of Templeton, VIII,
took the first premium of $40.
The next feature was the trial of matched horses
for which there were four contestants, and thu
premiums were awarded to A. Croker, of Fitch
burg, and L. B. Willard, of Ashby.
The balloon ascension was announced to tax,
place at 81 O'Clock, but had not been seen at six
and the probability is that the balloon ascension
instead of the balloon went up.
PREMIUMs.
Thoroughbred StOck-Jerseys-He 1st, j
Brown, Lunenburg. Bulls--2 years old, JOIN
Brooks. Princeton; year old, J e Brown, Lunen
burg. Cows-Best years old, } NJ Jockey, Leomin
ster; best years old, J F Brown, Leominsier
Heiiers-2 years old, LIST, j It Brown. Lunen
burg; 3D. J + Brown, Lunenburg; l year old, Ist
J Brown; I'd, John Brooks Princeton. Calves
LIST, John Brooks; I'd. j Brown.
Short Horns-Herds, Aug. Whitman, of Fitch
burg; I'd, Page, Fitchburg. Cows years old
LIST and I'd to Aug Whitman; years old, a Whit
man. years old, LIST, Whitman; "a, j Page
FFIt5chbuTg H6eifersol year old, A Whitman