The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1874-08-13
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The board of Managers of the Monroe
County Agricultural Society having decided
upon holding fair this fall, we should set
about the work of making it complete sue
cess at once. There is hardly a man, woman
or child in the county but who can do
something in this direction, and all should
take pride in doing full share. We are
satisfied that we draw nothing on the imagi
nation when we say that the officers of the
society are determined that nothing they can
do will be left undone to make this and
future fairs of the society a means Of secur-
ing the advancement Of our Agricultural in
terests, and the opening up of the road to
state Of farming perfection hardly even
thought of by our tllers Of the soil. To this
end they have arranged most liberal prem
ium list and an order OF business which cannot
fail to have salutary effect in wiping out
the evils which have hitherto been cause
Of ofIense and complaint. There has been,
we admit, cause for great portion of the
fault finding which followed each fair in the
past, but the determination, founded on ex-
pcrieuce, which now influences the action of
the Managers, to throw every possible safe
guard around everything connected with the
care of the product of exhibitors, the award
ing of premiums. and the general manage
ment of the fairs, must result in giving salts
faction to ALL We hope, therefore, that all
recol!ections of the evils Of the past will be
buried in oblivion, and that all will go to
work determined to make September's exhi
bition a matter worthy to be proud of, and an
effort that viii draw from spectators opinions
that viii prove honorable to our skill as hus
bandmeu, as mechanics and as housewives.
There is no earthly reason why we, in our
fairs should be so much farther behind our
neighbors than our Agricultural condition
warrants, and it is only because We are SO be-
hind that more liberal premiums are not of
iered by our managers. We have but to
exert ourselves mcasurably with them, to
draw fully as large and delighted audiences
as those which contribute to the success Of
the Wayne, Lehigh, Bucks and Luzerne
County Agricultural Socities, and to secure
10 contributors just as liberal pay. Our far
mcrs should now begin to select out the best
specimens of their several crops, our stock
rsiscrs of their horses, cattle, sheep and hogs,
our fruitiSts of their fruits, our gardners Of
their products, and our housewives Of the
evidences of their handwork, determined to
have it on exhibition in its best condition to
draw attention and secure the interest Of the
locker on. And we have cabinet Makers
and tinsmiths, and carpenters, and tailors,
and blacksmiths, and gunsmiths and wagon
makers, and clothiers, aud foundrymen, and
painters, and all the other trades, and mer-
chants too, all Of whom should feel, what is
most emphatically the truth, that by contri-
buting to the fullness and richness and at
tractiyeness of the fair they are advertising
their skill and wares at an outlay the return
for which cannot but prove a hundred fold
even in dollar and cent point Of view, leav-
ing the matter Of local pride out Of the ques
ton Let US try the experiment for once
this fall, and see if it does not pay in every
sense of the word to let the outside world
have our work to judge from as to what we
really are, and what position we are entitled
to occupy in the land of skilful, busy work
ers. 1t always pays to do this, but in no way
does it pay so well as in an emporium ofcon-
centrated skill, where comparison cannot fail
to point out merit Just such an emporium
Go the managers Of our Agricultural Society
contemplate building up, and if their efforts
fail it will only be because those who are really
most closely interested fail in the perfor-
nance Of an important duty to themselves
We hope that our people will not allow
this reproach to rest against them.