The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1883-10-12
Harford's Holiday.
TH. E FAIR
TUESDA Y.
A FINE EXHIBITION.

TUESDAY.
The tenth exhibition Of the Hartford Coun.
ty Agricultural Society began at the fair
grounds, near Bel Air, on Tuesday. The
day was pleasant and the attendance good -
The display in some of the departments was
perhaps not up to the average in point of
number, hut what was shown was the best of
each kind
Probably so many good Hartford county
horses were never seen on the fair grounds.
Blooded horses were shown by r. +. Rut
ledge, Jas. r. Whiteford, r. M. Howard and
VIM f. Wilson. Saddle horses by Wilton
Grcenway, r. NJ. Howard, S. G. Davis, Jr.,
j. r. Whitcford, S. Archer and G. w. Scarf.
Light Draft by II. III. Bradford, Thos. ALI
bone, E. H. Webster, John Arthur, John
Ruff STREET., Frank Jacobs, II. G. Cronin,
William e. Hanway, William d, Osborn, s.
Dawson, ii. c. Preston }. l. Mccormick and
A. M. Fulford. Horses of General Utility by
CT. Scarf, w. Abernatha, Hugh Bay, Amos
J, Day, Thos. Bradenbaugh, John G; Rouse,
David Gray, l.. ii. Amos, John r. Baldwin,
II. r Sherizer, f. ii. Prigg, r. f Hanna b.
Howard Amos and others. VIM, Ii. Smith
son and j. p. Mitchell both exhibited fine
spans of horses, and both took premiums.
Heavy draft horses were shown by A. II.
Patterson, VIM 4. Divers, G. +. Scarf Mat
thew j. Heron, and j. w. Hanna. A
splendid team of four mules was exhibited by
John G. Robinson. They had no compeLi-
ton, but would have been hard to beat
The Jersey cattle were fine. OF these
number were exhibited by Robert Moore, of
Baltimore county, Dr. VIM. S. Archer and
others. Some unregistered Jerseys, shown
by Joseph L. Ashton, were very handsome,
showing all the marks of pure blood and fine
butter qualities He received premiums on
all of them. James Lees registered Short
Horns, Harry Wilson's Devons and John
Streets grades were all as good as can be
found of their kind.
Cotswold sheep were shown by Miss May
Williams, j. p. Silver S. b. Silver e Bro,
and E. p. Amos. Southdowns by VIM. Mum
nikhuysen, VIM. Smithson, G. II. Scarf, G.
E. Amos, Miss May Williams, William
ID. Lee and B. F. Minnick. Shropshires by
II. d. Farnandis and grades by VIM. Web
ster, J. l.. Mccormick, Thomas Dever and
others.
The show of Poultry was never equalled ON
the fair grounds for numbers and varieties.
Mr.. George Cotton, President of the board of
police commissioners, was on the grounds,
with large number of handsome fowls
Other exhibitors in the same line were VIM.
Scarf b. F. Minnick, Arthur Bosley, j. W.
Erdman, G. H. Lake and Edward Haviland,
Miss May Williams, Mrs. Shepherd, Mrs.
Sarah Midway and others
Berkshire Swine were shown by JAS H.
Quinby, Thomas A. Hays and Henry ID.
Farnandis. Essex by William Munnikhuy
sen. Grades by F. B. Haviland. Jersey Red
by B. F. Warner.
The dusty millers were represented by J.
M. Herman, Reckord & Sons and N Oscar
Stokes.
The only factory canned goods on exhibit
ton were by DR.. G. A. Rutledge 6 Bro
The carriage makers were well represent
ed by John A. Hanna and John Smith, of
Bel Air; w. s. Bulett, of Delta; Max Wag-
ner, of Baltimore; d. ID. Waters, Thomas
Cain, Joseph s. Pogue and P. Palmer.
John r. Farley had fine set of harness on
exhibition.
There was good display of machinery by
E. H. Foard, l.. H. Lee & Bro, Ball & Bro,
Aultman & Co., William G. Haviland & Co.,
Mrs. A. M. Freeman, Griffith q Turner,
Moore Bros, W. SmithsOn Forwood, f. ID.
Hallock, ID. Reynolds and W. G. Smith.
Joshua Thomas 81 Bro, exhibited traction
engine, the evolutons of which attracted
much attention.
The display of field crops, unfortunately,
was scant VIM. GLADDEN. showed stalks of
corn, the ears on which grow close to the
ground. Mr.. GLADDEN. says he produces this
result by carefully saving his seed and by ap-
plying the fertilizer at the first working. A.
b. Hollingsworth showed some fine Chester
county mammoth yellow corn.
The display of apples and other fruit was
enough to make the mouth water. William
Webster had % varieties of apples on exhibit
ton, and in all there were 255 entries of this
fruit. Mr.. ]. H. Ball showed ripe strawberries
gathered in his garden Tuesday morning, as
well as choice grapes and plums. Howard
ayhihifad fina xuhita tahlp pttnnplri ms
Different varieties of vegetables were
shown by Rev. E. d. Finney, E. Fl. Webster
and Geo. p. Cook.
The ladies' department contained many
beautiful articles of the handiwork of the fair
sex, and there was tempting array of pre-
serves and other good things.
The Domestic sewing machine was exhibit
ted by William G. Jeffrey, the Royal st. John
John by J. N. Henderson and the Wheeler
and Wilson by Geo. F. Jones.
Edward Moores, of Baltimore county, ex-
hibited Stieff pianos and organs
Miss Emma Shepherd, of Baltimore county,
young lady of fifteen summers, gave some
fine music on the Stieff piano. Miss Shep-
herd is also fine performer on the violin,
and at the residence of Mr.. John Moores, in
the evening, delighted some apprecatlve
friends by giving number of airs on that, to
a lady, difficult instrument. .....
G. Il. Ehmann had on exhibition fine speci-
mems of marble work. -
An attractive feature of the fair is q band
of wild Western Indians" under the leader
ship of Texas Mark, an Indian scout and in
terpreter Their tents, about ten in number,
are pitched in the open space enclosed by the
track, while their ponies are pastured
around them. At one o'clock the Indians
appeared before the grand stand and per-
formed various antics, which served to
amuse the crowd, few Of whom had ever
seen a real Indian before 1t is said that
these Indians are remnant of one Of the
New England tribes from the State of Con-
necticut, and that some of them had been ed
ucated at Carlisle College, Pa, and that they
were employed by the white man who had
them in charge, for the sum of eight dollars
week, to go around the country and give ex-
hibitions of war dances, marriage ceremonies,
ETC., of which they knew nothing except what
they learned from the traditions of their fore
fathers