The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1873-11-01

premiums as aboye.l Best plan of dwelling.
house combining comfort, convenience, and
economy, 500, A. Y. Lee. Honorable men
ton is made of plan of dwclllng-house
made by Charles Il. Read, Jr. Best speci-
men of fire-proof brick, stock brick, and
plain brick. $40, Forbes 4 Allard, Baltimore
Brick Company.
Thoroughbreds.-Best stallion, four years
old or upwards, $50, T. W. Doswell's Orion
second best stallion, four years old or up
wards, $50, I. w. Doswelps King Lear.
four, S25, r. Fl. Fife's Robin Adair; second
best entire colt, three years old and under
four, $20, w. II. Eubank. Best entire colt,
two years old and under three, William A.
Lambert. Best brood-mare, four years old
and upwards, $50, j. L. Darlington second
best brood mare, four years old and upwards,
$40, John A. McCaurs Readie. Best fily,
three years old and under four, 1926, T. W.
boswell; second best filly, three years old
and under four, SIS, Chastain White. Best
filly, two years old and under three, a. G..
Babcock.
The Committee on Thoroughbreds recon-
mend special premium of so for Mr.. Jen-
Hlei lsnulacl IaSlli, oy Imported araDlan.
SPECIAL PREs4tMs.
Committees recommend the following spe.
cial premiums A. j. Miller & Co., for ma
chincry and circular saws; G. VI. Roberts,
new English milking machine II. NJ. Smith
& Co.. for L. H. Lee 4 Brothers, tobacco
ridger; Clifton Spoke Factory for spokes; A.
B. Crowell, shaft-coupling; Watt & Call. two
railroad-pluughs, and one stump extractor:
special notice TO II. and B. +. Bean for mail.
pouch: W. G. Cox, brass castings and loco.
motive bell.
MACHINERY.
Best horsepower. S25, ii. NJ. Smith Il Co.
Best ralwar-power, $l5, II. NJ. Smith Il Co,
Best combined machine for threshing, sepa.
rating, and cleaning, S25, j. w. Cardwell d
CO. Best cookie machine, -, H. NJ. Smith
& Co. Best machine for cleaning whea. oil
smut, SO, Ii. NJ. Smith & Co.'S Eureka"
Best machine for separating and cleaning
peanuts, So, II. NJ. Smith & Co. Best brick
machine, SO, Henry Martin, Chicopee, Mass.
Best drain tic.machine, $50, Professor j. K.
Page, University of Virginia. Best planning
machine, $40, Rahm & Hunter. Best
combined mortising and boring-ma-
chine, SIS, a. j. Truxel. Best grain
drill with guano and grass-sced attach
ment, $50, Bcklord Il Hoffman. Best
hill. Best broadcasting-machine, s., II. NJ.
Smith d Co. Best lime or tertiiZer-spread-
cr, so, II. NJ. Smith & Co. Best field-rolIer,
so, III. NJ. Smith IL Co. Best clod.crushcr,
$40. Ii. NJ. Smith & Co. Best agricultural
boiler for stock food, $40, Paul Barga-
min. Best pump for deep well, s., Ii,
C. fn for, h,llo
well, s., II. NJ. Smith & Co. Best water
wheel Qurbinc), 80. Talbot Il Sons. Best
washing-macllinc. s., Old Dominion Manu-
featuring Company, for American cataract
machine. Best clothes-wringer, 81, II. NJ
Smith & Co. Best churn, So; best fruit
dryer. 81. Wingtield. Taylor Il Brown. Best
rat and mouSe-trap, 81, Noting IL Brother
Best set OF wagon harness for two horses
made in Virginia, 81; best set OF carriage
harness for two horses, 50; best set Of buggy
harness for one horse, certificate and s., ;
). Cottrcll.
MISCELLANEOUS.
Best rifle or shotgun made in Virginia, pre-
mium to II. w. 1ignor. Best Iithograpl
work, SO, Southern Lithosraph Company
Special premiums to Wingfsld, Taylor &
Brown for lour-barrel, butter kcg, tobacco
kcT, and oyster can.
Mr.. George W. Meyers. agent Of the Cor.
louisville chair-factory, exhibited specimens
of their genuine old Virginia white oak and
walnut chairs-some with split and Others
with patent perforated bottoms. The largo
arm-rocker, the small rocker without arms
and the Office armchair received first pre-
mums. They received the severest tests O
strength and were pronounced most com
Portable, durable, and handsome. The work
turned out by the enterprising company
represented by Mr.. Meyers is Of a character
that does great credit to our Virginia me-
chanics.
Western Products on Exhibition.
The contribution of the far West to thu
Fair attracted great deal of attention anC
is worthy of special mention because of the
closer commercial relations now springins
up between Virginia and the West. W.
allude to the liberal display of agriculture.
products of the region traversed by the Bur
lington and Missouri River railroad, exhib
tied by Mr.. O'Dowd, the agent of that com
pany.
The shelled grains, such as corn, wheat
rye, oats, barley, buckwheat, tiaxseed, &c.
were shown in glass jars, uniformly mum
bered and labelled, with plain statemen
attached to nearly every lot indicating
where raised, who by, when planted, Wheu
harvested, the yield per acre, and the weigh
per bushel.
Flour, meal, hominy, Nebraska salt, soils
sub-soils, and variety of other matters, wer'
shown in similar shape. Corn in the ear ant
huSk appeared in great variety, and all dis
tinctIy marked in like manner. Of grasses
and grain in the sheaf, cornstalks, wood
&C., the display was very beautiful, ant
plainly illustrative Of the strength and fer
tility of the soil which affords so rich ant
luxiIriant growths. Some were shown
rs cut. and others with roots and soil at
tached.
The Fair Of 1873
NAV be fairly pronounced success in nearl
every respect. Few, if any, features OF it
management can be unfaVorably crltlclsco
President Lee and Secretary Leigh and thel
assistants have been indeEatlgable III thel
eXertions, and were earnestly sustained o:
the Executive Committee. If the eXhlol
,ion proves as remunerative rs it has Deel
agreeable the friends of the Society may wei
be satisfied.
THE FARMERS MEETISG.-It had been an
nounced that there would be meeting 0
the farmers of Virginia, who had come t
Richmond to attend the State Fair, in the
ball of the House OF Delegates last night
At 8 O'Clock few did assemble, togethee'
with a hall dozen citizens OF klcnmond
Shortly after O'Clock Colonel Bradford,
of Bedford, suggested that Colonel Curtis
one of the patrons of husbandry in thiS
State, should address those present on the
subject of Oranges. Colonel Curtis ther
proceeded at some length to give histor1
of the organization, which he said wa
framed by a few farmers Of Alabama, Mis-
souri,, Minnesota, and Vermont, resident