The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1884-06-06
The Spring Meeting.

The grounds of the Hartford County Agri-
cultural Society were opened on Tuesday for
the Spring Meeting. The exhibition was
confined to agricultural machinery and i'm
plements, carriages and trials of speed. As
there were no races the first day and no free
tickets there was not great rush TO see the
machinery and the carriages, and the attend
ance was small. The display of machinery
is large and affords an excellent opportunity
for farmers to compare the relative merits of
the different self binders, mowers, &C., which
will soon be needed in the harvest field.
The flying horses, the photographers tent,
the refreshment stands and the medicine men
were all on hand again, as well as the side
shows, with their barbarous music and ex-
traordinary deineations of the Modern Samp-
son, the snake charmer, the Circassian lady,
the electric lady, Punch and judy and other
wonders and diversions.
Among the exhibitors ofmachinery are as
following:
W. Smilhson Forwood, of Bel Air, Osborne
binders, reapers and mowers, wagons, drills,
hay rakes, Little Giant suky pillow, hay ted
ders, feed cutters, corn coverers, Planet, Jr.,
Garden cultivator, shovel plows, corn shelters,
force pumps. Fitzbugh hay fork and eleva-
Tor, Eclipse traction engine and thresher,
Watertown engine, fruit dryer, &c.
l.. ii. Lee ~ Bro, of Baltimore, Champion
binders and mowers.
Newark, Ohio, Machine Company, grain
drills, hay rakes, the Victor clover huller, &c.
Griffith 81 Turner, Baltimore, the Nc
Cormck selfbnder, Mccormick mower
Thomas hay tedder and Thomas hay rake.
j. M. Herman, Bel Air, johnson Binder,
reapers and mowers.
VIM. r. Emerson, Birdsail traction engine
and thresher.
j. d. Longstreth, Springfield engine and
thesher.
Benson 81 Bro, Wood Harvester This
machine has an ingenious bundle carrier, on
which half dozen sheaves of wheat are gath
cred and deposited in piles.
g. 9. Kinsey, Keystone horse power and
Ellis champion thresher and cleaner
Moore Bros, Fallston, Excelsior binder,
Adriance reapers and mowers, Peerless
threshcr, Bailey feed cutter, Iron Age cult
vators, Gale pillow, wheat harrow and Farqu
har engine.
p. f. Ball Il Bro, Coquillard wagons.
Henry Rockford & Sons, Buckeye binder,
Buckeye mower and Tiger horse rake.
s. l.. Spencer shows the model of a corn
fectivc device for Gamers.
A. s. Upton has the Peerless engine.
s. Il. Hanway, the weed slayer
The Champion binder is represented by
Allen Hoffman and J. b. Luckey. Mr. Hoff.
man also represents the Springfield Engine
Company, the Wizard Plow Company and the
Newark Machine Company.
N. b. & w. ID. Merryman, the Studebaker
Wagon.
Ii. & w. e. Klinefelter display their
Hartford county phosphate.
w. G, Haviland, the Belle City feed cutter.
The display of carriages is the largest and
best ever seen upon the fair grounds. Among
the exhibitors are Messrs. Charles Ii. Neff s.
Son, of York who show two jump-seat carrag-
es and four. buggics. They use patent tire,
which is so constructed that it cannot easily
come off the wheel. Their display is much
admired.
Williamson Il Bro. have handsomely
finished buggy of their own manufacture.
and buggies, of good style and finish.
The PheniX Carriage Works, of Bel Air,
display eight buggies, daytons, &c, includ
ing one elegantly finished and stylish phae-
ton of their own manufacture.
Nathan Grafton also has creditabe dis
play of work from his well-known factory
On Thursday afternoon there were two
races The 1rst was oil the 2.5O class, Tor
purse of 500; 1st $40; Cd, $50 Sd, $50 4th,
$40. The entries were:
Sam'l Chapman, na..............,....l2 23
III. Il L
DIR. Henry, Richard knox.................3 8
Won by Gardez, Iona Cd. Time2 so, 2.40t
2.494, 2.494.
The other was of the 2.40 class, for a purse
of $40; LIST, $50; I'd, $40 Sd, $25 4th, $15.
The entries were:
haIa TaI,, -
w. Greenway, Frolc. ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
VIM. Groscup, Eastern Shore Boy......3 A
j. ID. Kidd, Tanner oy..................33
Won by Frolic, Tanner Boy I'd, Eastern
Shore Boy Sd, Lady Auburn 18th. Time 24O,
2.40l, 2.45.
To-day, Friday, the meeting will close with
races of the 2.43 and $50 class, for purses of
$120 and $780,