Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1879-10-08
Sergeant Sig. Corps, U. S. A.
Michigan at the state Fair.

ALPENA COUNTY.
Jas. NJ. Case is here with many
chosen specimens of wheat, among
which are some samples of wheat,
that attract much attention. Many
samples of oats, peas, barley and
fully ripened corn, and when 1t is
understood that these are all field
crops, that thousands of bushels
could be produced of either sam
pie, that in vegetables Alpena
could compete with any Of the
shore counties, in plums with HUI
ron county even, and in apples,
though the attempt to raise them
dates back but a few years and has
been prosecuted under very great
difficulties, could make fair show
ing. The merits Of Alpena county
will be measurably understood,
though they could not be properly
shown as regards agricultural ca
pacity within the time and means
allotted for the present solid but by
no means diffuse exhibit.
Altoona COUNTY
Occupied two departments and
filed her quota with exhibits of
all the cereals in the straw and
in the half bushel. There were
four collections of winter wheat,
two of spring wheat and the cele-
hrated white Russian spring from
Prof. Pierce's collection of hybri-
dised wheats. This wheat COM
bines many of the valuable quail
ties of the winter wheat, and is a
most promising acquisition to the
farmers of Michigan. OF oats
there were three varieties, two of
them mixed and one of white.
The latter weighs A pounds per
bushel, and two bushels were en-
tered for premium specially award
ed by the Detroit Board of Trade.
OF apples, the r. l. Greening,
Red Astrachan, Gravenstein, Peck's
Pleasant, filling seventeen plates.
and FIVE plates of noticeable seed
lings. There were three plates of
plums and one plate pears which
attracted much attention for the
entire absense of "circulion."
Special exhibitions by northern
counties will be the order of the day
hereafter, and if followed by the
rush of settlers that invaded Kan
sas after the especial exhibit at the
Centennial, any investment of mon
ely and zeal will return to every
branch of business in city and
country.
CHEBOYGAN COUNTY
Came down from the north with
plenty of plump wheat, oats, beans,
peas, corn fully ripened, some
fruits, and a good variety of pota-
toes and roots, and such will come
down stronger every year hereaf-
ter, as will also
PRESQUE ISLE COUNTY.
which shows wheat and more wheat
and herein lies the strength of
this Northern Michigan movement,
which is soon to change the wheat
center of the State, and bring ele-
vators into requisition, where only
little while ago was only fish,
fur, and lumber operations. Che
boygan county shows also oats,
peas, some fruit, and the inevitable
Northern Michigan immensely of
potatoes and roots.
The effect of all this is to attract
intelligent attention to the advan-
tages of Northern Michigan as a
farming district; there is tide in
the affairs of men which, taken at
the food, leads on to fortune. There
is an opportunity for now filing mp
unoccupied portions of our State
with practical working farm
population which, if rightly taken
advantage of, will work inestimable
benefit to every interest. No line
of business will be exempt from
the benefits which immediate and
thorough settlement and cultiva-
tion will confer, no line of business
is exempt from the obligation to
aid to its fullest extent in securing
the needed development. Now
that this grand send off has been
effected, will business men and the
general people see it If not, why
mott
The lesson which the people OF
the localities chiefly interested
need to learn by the recent exhib-
il is that they must when the next
opportunity occurs broaden up the
emergency, pool their prejudice'
and their products and make ar
exposition which will squelch al
future cavil concerning the capaci
ty OF Northern Michigan; tn,
lesson to the whole people of Mich
igan is that
North'ard the course of empire takes it way,
and bye and bye the "northerl
hordes" bringing down their pro
ducts Of the soil developed to
great extent through the accumula
tons that have come from he
munificent endowment Of pine tim
/, Der, will somewhere in the Sagina,
valley organize the real metropoli
of Michigan. and to the cente
rather than to any point on tn
circumference will tend the wealt
which shall manifest itself in tn