The Aberdeen examiner. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1866-current, 1883-11-15

The age in winch We live is an age of
progress. one more, your citizens
have witnessed the lngathering to your
favored city, the fine stock of the land;
horses, mules, cattle, sheep, swine,poul-
try, dairy, the farm products, the mill
fabrics, the domestic work. the garden
products, flowers &c. &C., from every
portion of your county and many OF the
counties adjoining, together with fine
stock from several other States. Your
citizens are peculiarly blessed, for these
annual Fairs in your city, cannot fail to
bring lasting and happy results, for your
people can appreciate and utilize these
blessings. Perhaps, there could not,
in the State, be found those more re-
fined, progressive and united in senti-
ment than the people of Aberdeen. The
writer of this article could not he with
you in the last Fair, yet he feels well
assured, from what he witnessed at the
four preceding ones, that it, too, was a
grand success. Knowing your people
rs he does and knowing the character
of soil of Monroe and the adjoining
counties, it would he almost herculean
task to convince him that your last Fair
was not success. The "black land
| belt" is one Of the most beautiful, the
most fertile counties on theiglobe and is
well adapted to raising of fine stock.
You have every character of soil suit
able, and well dapted to raising grain
and grasses. You have the very best of
clay and sandy lands; the richest of
| bottoms and hammock.
Here lie fertile praires, outspreading far and
Where once were heard, Old Oceans rush and
roar,
With myriads of aquatic shells lying side by
side,
Where her briny waves placed them in days
OF yore.
In the past the South has not been
thought capable of doing much in rails
ing fine stock ana in raising a variety Of
farm products, but, thanks be to a few
progressive men, scattered here and
there over the land, there hath been "a
new spell over the dream" and the
South, ere long, will not be the victims
| of these false ideas and erroneous im-
pressions The people South have no
need to look to the North, East or
West, for they have the power within
them selves to supply all their needs.
The great necessities rs well as the great
convenience OF raising Ill home PUP
plies have seiz ii hold, as it were, the
very vitals of the people South, hence
it is, there can be seen great change
in the minds of the people, and doubt
South. 10 day, there can be seen in
every portion of the Gulf States, fine
horses, mules, cattle, sheep, swine,
poultry, &c. &c, that will compare
favorably with those of any other por-
ton of these United States. Were the
people South longer to look to the North,
East or West for home supplies, it
would most assuredly he sad COM
mentary upon their manly worth and
Intelligence. lis not germane in this
short and hastily written article for the
writer to show or name what all the
South Can rlise or grow, but he will
simply ask, VIA is it she cannot grow
or raise that she needs?
II the writer we're asked what does
the South most need, he would answer,
her greatest, to day is aninntng spirits;
men of liberal, enlarged views, whose
patriotism is as brond as their whole
country; men progressive, and willing
to cast their bread upon the waters,
trusting that their children, grand
children and great grand children may
gather the fruits thereof III after years.
Among the many incentives to rouse
the people from their reprehensibe
sloth and dependence, The writer knows
but few as factors, that equal well man:
aged Annual Fairs. 'Tis here all who
may attend, Can see for themselves what
has been done here at home, aud COM
mon sens, will tell us that this is only
foretaste of what can and may be done
in our own land and country. These
Annual Fairs may well be compared to
II pebble cast into Il calm lake, whose
still waters thereby are made to extend
far and wide and to kiss the flowers npon
every bank. Surely there rests II great
possibility upon those who are en-
trusted with the management of these
Expositsions. They should pursue that
course best calculated to get the people
in terested and enthused. They should
use every fair, laudable means, to get
the greatest number possible, to join
the grand march of enterprise and pro-
gress. IT'S very evident. that one of
the main springs in the whole machine
ry lis well gotten,up premium list,
catalogue, both attractive and INIT
ing, Astounding IN gooi sense and iudg-
ment, manlestly fair in all Of its fea lures,
and then well scattered among the peo~
pie long in advance OF the time Tor ex-
hibition. Printers lux has much to do
now-a days with all enterprises that
prosper. BY these means the busy,
Industrious farmers have ample tina to
think, to make preparations for these
expositlons, thereby assuring large |
display of farm products ana fine stock,
without which, all FAIRS are pronounced |
and without which all Annual |
Fairs will sooner or later be as "dead |
cocks In the pit" Hence the importance |