The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1877-08-30
tho st. Adams Messenger.
The State Fair.

1t is only two weeks now to the twenty
seventh annual exhibition of the Vermont
State Agricultural society and wool grow
ers' association There are many reasons
why it ought to be the best fair the society
has ever held. The premium list is large
and carefully cast the regulations are as
nearly perfect as long experience could
make them the officers Of the society arc
among the most substantial men of the
state, whose very names are an assurance
of fair competition and honorable dealing I;
the grounds are large, pleasant, easily &C
cessible, with running water, an abundance
of stalls and building and covered audi
forum the opening OF the p & o., road
will enable the farmers of large and fer
tile region to attend and bring exhibits, with
less expense aud inconvenience than Lost
year and the general advance which has
been making in the various methods and
processes of agriculture and the mechanic
arts, especially the improvements in breed
ing dairy stock and the manufacture OF
dairy implements, ought to show now more
| conspicuously than ever before.
Thsre ia always inducement for exhibit
ing at the state fair, even though the arti-
Gle may be small, the premium but trihe
and the distance to be travelled and the ex.
penses to be incurred may be considerable
For there is no better place for real merit
to make itself felt. 1t often occurs that O
good horse, or promising COW, or an az.
ricullural implement or machine of i'm.
proved manufacture, will fail, as many 8
man and prophet has failed, to find due
honor and appreciation in the neighborhood
of its production. But let it be taken &c
the slate fair, where all interests are gath.
cred, where men of experience, observation
| aud above all, impartiality. are to judge,
and il 1t has merit it will have credit. The
premium, even though it may be large, il
in NO case any considerable proportion OF
the benefit that accTues to the exhibitor.
He satisfies his own judgment by the ap.
proving judgments of Others, and in bu.
slness point of view, he introduces his ami
NAL or article to the world. Not only that,
but he has consciousness of being live
man in his day and generation and Of do
ing his proportion towards making up an
| exhibition that sffords instruction, profit
and delight TO his fellow men.
But true and forcible as these consdera.
tions are, applied to the state at large, they
rest with especial emphasis upon the peo-
pie Of the vicinity where the fair 10 held
Not only should they strive TO equal or ex.
Gel predecessors, but they should realize
that the more valuable aud attractive they
make the fair for others, so will 1t be for
themselves. There are single towns in Yer.
mont, and great many of them, too, which
could gather in dag such display of the
fat OF the land as would win commenda-
ton anywhere. We have seen them, where
they was no society. no regulations, no pre-.
MUM list, no long preparation, hold fairs
that surprised their own inhabitants scarce
ly less than outsiders. Within radius OF
twenty-five miles of the state fair ground
there are more than twenty-five such towns.
l will cost nothing to enter their exhibits.
Let them como with their big town teams,
(Which always seemed TO us the finest thing
to be seen at fair) with their fruits and
vegetables. their grains in sheaf and meas
urc, their Durhsms and Jerseys, their but
ter and cheese, their embroidery aud cloths,
their pictures and flowers. and last and best
of all, with their whole families. Now ie
the time to conclude TO do II, TO get the To-
tended exhibits In order and to mako the
preliminary arrangements. There should
be no back wardness for fear this article or
that may be only second or third best. II
has not be0n ralsed or made, pampsred or