The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1886-10-09
THE FAIR.
\ GRAND SUCCESS.
Cecil Co. Maintains Her
Reputation.
A GRATIFIED MULTITUDE
All the Departments Well
Filled With Exhibits.
rIIT rain naNc ar r,hr plNIhN
A GRATIFIED MULTITUDE
THE FOUR DAYS OF FINE RACING

THE FOUR DAYS OF FINE RACING
The Largest Display of Blooded Stock
Ever Seen in This Section.
10000 IN ATTENDANCE.
Notwithstanding all the local weather
prophets had predicted on Monday after
noon that Tuesday would be rainy day
and that the Seventh Annual Fair of the
Cecil County Agricultural Society, like
the sixth would open amid pouring rain,
happily these forebodings proved to
have no foundation, and the opening day
of our exhibition was a charming fall
day. The fair grounds were early a
scene Of activity, and many were en-
gagged in putting things IN good shape.
Exhibits fairly poured in and the secre
tary and his assistants were kept busy
entering the exhibits on the books of the
society. The exhibit this year was large,
ia many departments larger than last
year. From any part of the exhibition
grounds a visitor could not deny the
beauty of his surroundings, while from
it's more elevated points beautiful land
scape was spread out before him. The
convenient location of the grounds is nc
less apparent. it's proximity to the rail.
road station being one of its chief advan.
tlges.
AGRICULTURAL DEPARTMENT..
AS you entered the grounds the ample
space to the left was reserved for the ex-
hibition of agricultural machinery.
Prominent in the foreground stood that
leading representative of the wind mill
family, the Eureka, exhibited by VIM.
Brown, OF Rising Sun, the leading ma
chine of its kind in the market. The
Eureka" had no competitor on the
grounds. In binders and reapers the COM
petition was sharper and the display OF
''Hrhe Champion" was the largest. The
bracing six tents, aud Is men. They ex-
hibted 10 harvesting machines several
of them III operation by steam power,
noticeable a mong the IN being the New
Steel Binder and the New Steel
Mower" This equipment the largest OF
Its kind ever seen on these fair grounds.
was recently exhibited at the Pennsyl-
vania State Fair, Dover, Delaware, and
will go to Mount Holly. L. Ii. Lee 4
Bro, are the general agents in B-lti-
more, ard VIM. T. Boulder, the agent at
Elkton. Their exhibition space covered
a square so $50 it,, embracing all lead
ing agricultural implements. 1t was GER
tainly the finest ever made at Eikton.
Next to The Champion exhibit, Geo
Wltworth, OF Elkton, showed The
Champlon' wagon. 1t is new depar-
ture Ill Wagons" In striking an obst:uc-
ton it jars neither wagon bed, tongue
Or team. That lis something for farmers
to tank about.
Right alongside stood the celebrated
Bird S horse culuivator and corn drill.
What every farmer will take i'll at a
glance is its broken tongue for working
hill sides, aud its levehng qualities living
made at Rising Sun. The William Deer
ing Co., exhibited their celebrated steel
self-bnder, their new light mower aud
their six foot giant mower. E. Nj. Cool
edge represented these machines. 100
of these machines are il use in Cecil
county, at least So their agent reports.
Walter Penuell, Chester Pa, exhibited
machine that every farmer must have.
A double beveled grind stone for sharp
ening mower and reaper knives. This is
the boss.
Henry Wright of fredericksburg, Nd,
exhibited, The Keystone Hay loader
made in Illinois. 1t had no competitor
on the grounds, because it has none i'll
the market. G. B. Jones exhibited the
Eclipse Traction Engine, made at
Waynesboro, Pa, and also the Vibrating
Turesher made by the same Co. II. w.
Mathews exhibited TIE Phoenix Trac
ton Engine, ard Mlller's New Model
Thresner, and the well-known Buckeye
Irvine Binder, and the No | Buckeye
Mower. Andrew Lybnd represented
these machines Gu the grounds. Slmuel
lay lor exhibited the Little Diamond
cultivator. p. G. Strickland sells this well
known machine, which has the ntlepe,
dent movable tooth. This is a feature.
Z. &. Strlck land exhibited the Osborne
Jr. Steel Frame Binder, aud TIE Steel
Frame Mower The Boss Roller, and
the Lion Fodder Cutter and Crusher.
These are all we'll known machines lie
also exhibited the New Buckeye Glass
Feed Fertilizer Drill" ID. c. Standiford
exhibited Pavilion. at which the virtues
of Listers pure bone Fertilizers were told.
| Standiford reports about 500 tons of the
fertilizer sold during this Spring and Fall
seasons, at the following places: Elkton,
Oxford, North East. Rising Sun, Port
Deposit and Nottingham. Mr. Thos. II.
Traver's represented as general agent
the well known "Orchilla" Guano. He
reports its sales for wheat sowing three
times larger this year than it was last
Its crop record this year. excels any pre-
vious year. J. G. Burney of Utica, n
Y, exhibited the Eureka Mower" |,
is center draft, aud 6 feet cut. f. c.
Collins is the local agent. Geo. d. Ra
cine exhibited "Emuire wheat and ferti
lzer force feed drill" This machine is
almost exclusively used in Elk Neck
which grows the best wheat in Cec
county. One of our best farmers Ben
jamin b Wolf takes one to Virginia W it'll
| him.
The carriage department occupied tent
south of Mitchell Hall. The exhibitor.