Litchfield enquirer., 1879-12-25
The New York Dairy Fair.

same building on Third Avenue used by u
 American Institute; and one is astonished
 he gazes upon the numerous exhibits whic
 completely fill up this immense structure. cannot give your readers in this brief art
 cle anything like fair description of this e, hibition. Upon entering the hall, which co,
 CTS about two acres. an immense pile of chees
 greets your eye. This is made in the form (
 Cleopatra's Needle, and is labeled ''The Da
 ryman's Needle" The exhibit is by H. K. {
 F. B. Thurber, comprises every kind of chees manufactured in this country, and is abou
 forty feet high. reaching to within about thre
 feet of the top of the building. Its weight
 5000 fbs., and it's base is formed of |
 cheese, weighing HOO tbs. each. Then ther
 is pyramid of Higgins Dairy Salt in sacks
 weighing 40. 900 pounds, and another one o Ashton salt, weighing 60, 900 pounds Ther are numero us pyramids besides, and cones o American and foreign cheese to be seen al over the hall.
 | Long tables are devoted to exhibits of but ter. Special tables are devoted to the State of New York, Ohio, Wisconsin, Illinois ant Iowa. There are also many tables of cheese arranged according to the States from whicl they came, and which everybody seemed to b tryingor sampling. Wetasted of the best chees' from many states, but found none better thar are made in Warren or at Cornwall, yet WI failed to see sample exhibit of Connection manufacture.
 At one table oleomargarine was shown, and freely distributed to the visitors. One or two of the samples tasted much better than a gooC deal of the butter offered at our stores and, whatever people may say, it is certainly vast ly preferable to poor winter butter.
 In the back part of the building there was a show of fancy cattle of all.breeds; Holsteins, Attorneys Jerseys, Guernseys and Ayrshlres M. and D. Wells, of Wethersfeld, Conn.,, show fifteen Ayrshires None of the Echo Farm herd were there. except the wonderful COW ''Filbert" that MT. Starr sold for $15OO, a few weeks since. Nor was any of the Echo Farm butter seen there. understand that MT. Starr does not manufacture butter for ex- hibition; only for table use.
 In ofe corner is cheese factory in full op. eration, and the way that the salted curd dis appeared down the mouths If our city cousins was amusing, but the makers managed to get some of it into the hoops, and into one of the celebrated gang" presses. There were churns without number, each of which, if correctly dls- cribed by it's patentee, is the best in the world, most of them making several pounds more of butter than there was cream in the churn.
 Patent milk cans, patent workers, patent creameries, were there in full force Butter color was present everywhere in fact it's advocates have recently discovered that the rainbow is made of butter color, and that, without it's use, the seasons will fail and time will be no more.
 Then there was dairy house in which milk was sold at five cents glass; whether it was drawn from the old COW that was so lavish down at Coney Island last summer, we could not ascertain. There were patent milk ped lars and milk wagons and, more important than all to the retail dealers patent pumps One man was helping on the milk cause by a steam drill, which would, at trifling expense furnish any farm with the pureat- of water from the center of the earth.
 Addresses upon dairy subjects gre given every evening, and good band furnishes music. On nthe evenings of our attendance, M X. A. Willard was endeavoring to show farmers that they used to make more money years ago than they do nova matter upon which many of our County farmers would not require much argument. An old gentleman, evidently a farmer from the ''rural districts, remarked to another, "It is a mighty plausible theory, but it's adogoned hard thing to practice" We sup pose Mir. Willard solved the paradox-on pa- per.
 Three hours were quickly passed in looking at these many forms of great industry of our country, when the fountain ceased to play and the lights grew dim, and it was time to leave. We went away wishing that every one of our farmers could come here and learn something to benefit them, and the query suggested itself why cant our farmers, this fall, meet and show the fruits of their skill, and improve each other in this great department of their work? K.
 It is not quite correct to say that the execu- tive council in Maine have returned majority of democrats to the legislature. But they returned an opposition majority of democrats and rreenhackers Iii is snnnosad thaf fhi.