The Tipton advertiser., 1876-10-26
IOWA AT THE CENTENNIAL.

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Her Grains, Seeds. Woods, Grass.
c., Fruit, Vegetables, aud Live
stock, Excellcd by None.
The Centennial Exposition of the
country grows in magnitude and won
der, more and more daily as it is COM
pretended. Perhaps no ones mind is
capable of doing it justice in all its
parts. Specialists only are capable i'm
their particular departments to tell
the benefits to be derived therein to
our State. The world i'm miniature Is
before her and Iowa compares herself
and hers-her grains with their grains
her seeds with their seeds-her
woods with their woods-her grasses
with their grasses-her fruit with their
fruit-hcr vegetables with their veg
etables-her stock with their stock
and when this is done then comes the
grand object of the eXhibition-to
compare notes to learn the conditions
and adaptability of the worlds pro
duets unknown to Iowa; to add to
her usefulness-tO increase her conf
forts and her wealth. Iowa is young
and new; Iowa is cosmopolite; she is
favored by geological formation; the
richness of her soil-her golden fields
and yerdant meadows-all encourage
her to compare notes with the worlds
products; all speaks to her enlight-
ened farmers to be at hand to see what
new thing is to be had for her advan-
tage; what the orient or occident-
what the past has worked out or the
present discovered that she has not
and will benefit her. The farmer of
Iowa is of all men the most to derive
real, substantial benefit at this grand
Centennial exhibition. Has old Japan
grains or grasses? She has not. Has
Ceylon wheat? She has never seen
it; have the Russians better grains
than she has grown; has England
geologically her counterpart-fner
herbage or more excellent thlage, she
should be there to see. We are an
agricultural people; from the soil
must come our living-our comforts
and our wealth; and the greater our
products and the greater variety, the
more sure shall we be to attain these,
and the longer we shall preserve the
natural wealth of our soil.
Iowa has not been sluggard in inn
proving the number of her products in
the past the long array of her exhib-
its and their variety speaks volumes
on her behalf She is modest; she
stands by her crops and says to all
comers; 81 can show you what can
do, and in exchange tell me if l can
do more?"
~ have" she says, "herc on exhi-
bition "A varieties of corn, so varie-
ties Of wheat, rye, oats and barley, 80
varieties of grass and field seeds, 200
varieties of vegetable seeds, 60 varie-
ties of timber seeds, so varieties of ma
tive and cultivated grasses, 900 col
lections oi t:lv fora of Iowa, 100 speci-
mems of timber native and cultivated
100 varieties of fruit in addition, and
not included in those wax models of
which there are 800. Total, 2,O64 sam
pies of kinds and varieties"
Is there farmer in Iowa who can
look over this wonderful variety and
not be benefited? And what are
they to the products shown by the
other nine hundred and ninety-nine
thousandths of the soil of the earth?
We feel proud of Iowa, when we
look over this array. A leading editor
of Harpcr's Weekly who has critically
examined all the products of agricul-
ture at the Centennial, said: Iowa
has the finest collection, and can give
more genuine information in relation
thereto-more that is useful and bene-
flcial-than any collection on the
grounds" Hurrah for Iowa. First
in war and first in agriculture. In
apples she is the leading producer,
grower and exhibitor, and it may
truthfully be said, for variety, useful
ness and richness of apples Iowa beats
the world.
In butter the gold and silver medal
of the Omitted States Butter and
Cheese Association was awarded to
Iowa; both being awarded to Mr.. J..
Stewart, of Delaware county. 1t is
the rich grasses of Iowa that makes
her gold and silver medal butter.
Corn is shown in the stock planted
weekly, from the last week in April
to the first week in July. Nineteen
ears from the first planting filled a
bushel, and the yield per acre was l2o
bushels. Corn planted July 4th and