The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1873-10-21
VIRGINIA STATE AGRICULTURAL
SOCIETY.
Tne Coming Exhibitiom.

This exhibition is to take place in or neal
this city, at the Fair Grounds, on Tuesday
the 28th, Goth, 30th, and 3lst of the
present month. All entries must be
made by letter to the secretary, or at the
business office in Richmond, previous to
the 25th instant. The schedule of premi-
ums are classified in the following order
DEPARTMENT I-RAw AND MATERIAL
PRODUCE.
Glass Minerals, mining, metallurgy,
geological and mining plans and sections,
best collection of useful minerals, marty
green sand, gypsum, hydraulic limestone,
marble, calcareous tufa, and such miner
ais as are useful in pigments.
Class 2-Chemical and pharmaceutical
products and processes, and vegetable and
mineral substances employed in manufac-
lures.
Class 3 Farm Products) The award
for the premium on tobacco will be made
by the executive committee at their Janu-
ary meeting, 1874, and contestants are de-
sired to leave their samples and statements
at the office Of the secretary.
Glass 4-Section |, garden and orchard
products; section 2, orchard products !;
section 3, floral products; section4, Ameri-
can wines, the exhibitor must be proprietor
or manufacturer, and the wine branded with
the name and place of the manufacturer sec
tion 5, malt liquors, lager beer and pale ale !;
section 6, best still cider made in Virginia,
best sparkling cider, best vinegar section
Z, best specimen of native brandies,
purest distillation of whisky, must
be exhibited by or for the manufacturer;
section 8, domestic products, butter,
cheese, dried small fruits, canned fruit,
bacon, ham, honey, peaches, tomatoes,
grapes, ounces, pears, cherries, cltron
preserved in cans or jars; jelly made of
current, plums, raspberry, strawberry,
grape, gooseberry, cranberry, apples,
and Siberian crab jelly; section 0, bread,
cakes and confectionery.
DEPARTMENT III.
Is classified under several heads of ma
chinery for agricultural, manufacturing,
engineering and other purposes, mechanical
inventions, illustrative of the agents brought
to bear by the human ingenuity on natural
products, machines for direct use, incud-
ms, steam, hydraulic and pneumatic en-
gines, wood working machines, agricultural,
horticultural and dairy machines. horticul-
tural implements, domestic machines and
implements.
DEPARTMENT III-MANUFACTURES
THE RESULT OF HUMAN INDUSTRY
OR NATURAL PRODUCTS.
Household manufactures and ladies
fancy and ornamental work, manufactures
of cotton, wool, silk, &c. furniture made
in Virginia, leather, furs,, hair, straw, &c. !;
paper, stationery, types, printing, book
plipn ot,fl ap1 aIn fanl,
brass, pewter, hardware. surgical instru-
ments, porcelain, marble, slate, &c.
DEPARTMENT IV-FINE ARTS.
Is made up embracing statuary in
marble bronze, plaster, water-colored
pictures, drawings, engravings, photo-
graphs, wax and flower work, musical
instruments. a>a
DEPARTMENT MAMMALS.
MIR. S. W. Ecklin is the chief. Horses
and mules it is expected will be an at
tractive show.
At meeting of the, executive committee
9th of April, 1872, the following resolution
was unanimously passed.:
Resolved, That the several agricultural
societies of the state, holding fairs, be re-
quested to send three delegates each to the
State Fair, and that these societies be re-
quested to make an effort to induce ex-
hibitors obtaining premiums at their fairs,
to exhibit their premium articles and
awards at the State Fair.
|. The schedule offers fair premiums, and
it is to be expected that we shall have an
unusual exhibition and large attendance
present. Many additions are being made
to the Fair Grounds; extensive prepara-
tons are going forward to make this one of
the most grand exhibitions ever before
held in the city.