Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1878-11-11
Falls Church. 4 fairs.

a correspondent Of the Wsshiagt1a Sisr,
wriliog from Fails Chu!eh says:
Tho summer is now ended, and so il tho hsr'
Yes. Corn is generally good Potatoes, as over
the country. extensively. arc very mesg1e
crop. The dry weather during the season when
thetuoers were forming did the work. Turnipa
are very short also. never had failure Of the
Russia turnip- the most famous OF All Of this
claas or brf 1ch of the esculsnt root fanily-5o.
fore this closing sesson. L had come to regard
them as never failing. Cabbage are short cop.
The cabbage butterfic7 have been IS plentiful in
tbs cabbage fields as leaves in Valambrcss, and
haze ruined the crop. Some of tho fields look rs
if they had been the scene of long continued,
holly contested, great battle, and the leaves sro
literally riddled.
The Lecture Association have given II;
two lectures of the course Of twelve. The pref.
don't of the association. ard Roy. Benz. w.
Pond, delivered tbs first: subject. ''5omethng
about Patents" vas good one. Second de!iv-
ered by Prof. Z. B. Hood, Of your city, VAS GA
Tho Air We Breathe and was replete with
very instructive facts Tne third is 10 be deliver
ed by Prof. Neil Graham or Tuesdsy evening
nezt. The Rev. Lester B. Plat, the ablo pastor
OF the Congregational church here has organi3.
ed bellies. letters club among the young men
and msses. 1t is quite popular with the young
folks. The third association in the place has no
dist o gushing title that have heard Of. lis
object is musical snd literary exercises and aoc;e!
interchange. This, too, seems to ba Il sHccess.
The tree is known By its fruit, and the town
By its Transactions What locality around the
Capital can match this in its activities IN .els-
ton to those subj ects that distinguish communi
ties2 A farmor's club is talked CT. There are
many experienced men in the agricultural part
OF the community. An association among The
predisl clc-s here. formed to relste ezpeIioa-
ces, compare results, discuss new methods Of
cultivation. etc, would DO exceedingly enter
PERTAINING and instructive in It's transactions to
the untrained-aye, even to the prac:ced. This
brings to MY mind some Of my own experience
dating, probably, fifteen years back. took the
position in sundry northern Ohio papers that to
grow fine crops and improve steers, sheep
horses, hogs and asses, ives very necessary and
important; but that these transactions were to
considered not as the end Of aspiration, but sa
aids to the production Of a better and better
manhood among the agricultural classes, ard IS
q means of leading them on 10 this higher aim
urged the managers of agricultural fairs to mske
the import 1T matter in the premium list, the
didn't make ripple even in intelligent northern
Ohio. saw this fall that in this State whero
common school education seems 30 be at 8 dis
count and whero tho State au.horitC3 have clos.
ed the pu bic schools by wrongful conversion of
the school money TO another or other purposes,
that the Piedmont sgTiculteral fair board have
led off, possibly, ahead CT the res! of mankind
by offering premiums for essays. Good for that
Piedmont board.
One of tho Feorey's or recent night lost two
loads of cabbage Dr.. Colt has had his surgl-
cal instruments stolen. Some one oise ha5 had
parts of harness. stolen. I hear that considerable
corn has husked itself aud gone TO maaket, or to
feed other families than those OF tho growers.