The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1881-09-20


At the called meeting Of the Leon County
Farmers Club held on Friday last, the 10th
inst, Aessra ". 1 vason. President, 81. N. Fel-
kel and r. G. Long. were appointed committee
to devise and hse such means as they saw ct for
collecting moneys and products for the State
exhibit At the Atlanta Exposition. The under
signed being 4 Vice President Of the State Com
mittee was made Chairman of the above County
Committee, and earnestly solicits the cooper
ton of every citizen In the county. If an effort
is made we can make the largest and most varied
exhibit of any county in the State. Any man,
woman or child in the county who has any of
the articles mentioned in the appended list, or
knows of any one else who has them, or where
the Committee can probably procure them, will
confer favor by making II known 10 the under
signed, who is authorized to receive all articles
intended for exhibit and see that they are prop
erly cared for, forwarded and returned. The
name and residence of the party contributing
the exhibit will be attached to each article, and
the same will remain his or her property at the
close OF the Exposition, then to be returned or
sold, at the option of the owner
Leon carried off the banner at the State Fair
at Gainesville in 1875, and ought to be able,
Notwithstanding the severe droulh through which
we have just passed, 10 make such an exhibit as
will prove her to be permanently entitled to the
proud distinction of the Banner County of
Florida" r. Don Mcleod. Chairman.
LIST OF ARTICLES AND PRODUCTS DESIRED FOR
THE EXHIBIT.
Harm Products: Cotton, corn, wheat, rye, oats,
rice, field peas, peanuts, tobacco, sugar cane
and sorghum and their products hay, fodder,
millet, Hungarian and other grasses, cut and
baled
There should be large number Of bales of
cotton, as the best bale from Florida will win a
800 premium, and the premium bales from the
different States will then compete for the grand
prize oil 81 600 for the best bale in The Southern
States. We want all the way from to %
bushels OF the best corn, in the ear and shuck;
wheat, in the sheaf and threshed; oats, from 10
to 25 bundles nthe sheaf, and from 10 10 bushels
threshed; rye, the same; rice, the same; tobacco,
in the hand and well cured; sugar cane, from 80
10 500 stalks, red and green; syrup, from to 10
gallons, and sugar from to so pounds sorghum,
the same; hay, of all kinds one or more bales of
each kind; fodder, 25 to so bundles of the best
and brightest that can be got; miIlet-pcarl, Ger
man and golden, in bundles, and their seed
Ihreshed; field peas oil all varieties, not less than
half bushel of each peanuts, as many rs pos
sble.]
Vegetables Peas, beans, bccis, cabbages-in
short every variety of vegetable that Leon
county can raise, not forgetting big pumpkins,
squashes and watermelOns, especially the wafer
melons.
THE vegetable products may be sent from
time to time as late as December 18th, and the
more in quantity OF each kind, the better. They
will be kept on exhibition until they are in dan
ger OF becoming unstable, and then sold, to be
replaced by fresh sent on from time 10 time
Fruits: Apples, pears, Japan plums and Japan
persmmons7 whatever can be procured mature,
at any time between October 1st and December
18TH
Minerals Specimens of our soils, clay, kaolin
or pipe clay, rock Tor building or lime, bricks,
and the clay they are made of, mari, etc.
Dairy Products Butter, in glass packages of
not less than five pounds, and from as many
different exhibitors as possible.
Preserved Fruits: In glass, of every descrip-
ton. Great care will be taken TO pack safely
and return in good order.
This should be one of the best features of The
exhibit
Woods: Specimens of every variety of wood
growing in the county. II got out rough, the
committee will see that they are partially dressed
so az To show grain and finish.
CuriOSities and Objects Of Dirt and Vertu Any
one disposed TO contribute such articles may
rest assured of their entire safety and safe return
in good order.
FOaoers If there is one thing Leon county
can excel in il is in the making of a Floral Dis
play. The day fixed is the 25ih of October, and
it is hoped that every lover and grower of flow
ers will have something of the kind TO send on
or before the Goth of October, and will notify
the Chairman.