Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-09-04
THE MARYSVILLE FAIR.
THIRTEENTH AGRICULTURAL DIS.
TRICT EXHIBITION.
Fine Pavilion-Splendid Exhibits
Fast Speed Contests-Great
Crowds OF People.
MARYsv1L1r, September 3. 1856.

MARYsvILLE, September 3, 1856.
Industrial fairs are true measure Of the
civilization of the community from which
their exhibits come This is true not only
in this country, but the world over. Visit
any OF the great industrial exhibitions in
the Capitals of Europe or America and, as
you walk through the exposition buildings
you have a truthful panorama of the civil
ization of those countries making exhibits !;
the great annual fairs held on the steppes of
Russia and Central Asia, at Samarcand and
Novogorod, and you may see in the wide
spread of booths just how far the people
of those regions have advanced on the road
to civilization and enlightenment. So it is
everywhere, and California is no execution
to the rule. A stranger can form a great
estimate of our people by the exhibits made
at our State and district fairs. In the stock
department, if You see thoroughbred and
trotting stock, you know that the people
have the means and leisure for horseback
riding and driving. The big Clydesdale,
Norman or Percheron stock indicates that
the farmer and freighter has plenty Of work
10 do, and IS
DOING IT WELL.
If you see the best blooded horses OF all
breeds you may be sure that the people are
in the front rank of breeders for home
and foreign markets, and that they are
alive to the fact that the best is the cheap
est and most profitable. The exhibits in
the other stock departments will tell you
whether a people have good beef, good
milk, butter and cheese, good pork, mutton
and wool for home use and for sale. Fine
Durhams, Devons, Uerefords and Polled
Angus make good beef on The tables at
home, and cattle for sale to help swell
the individual bank accounts. Pens of
Holsteins, Jerseys and Attorneys will
show whether people have plenty of
milk, cream, butter and cheese, or whether
they drink muddy coffee straight, buy
their milk in cans from New Jersey, and
their butter, strong and rancid from some
other country The horse and cattle de-
partments will disclose another important
fact, viz: Whether the farmers is skin
ming his land by raising cereals year after
year, without returning to the soil any part
of the fertile elements which he is taking
from it, and leaving an exhausted soil as a
heritage to his children; or whether he is
feeding his crops TO his stock. and return
lIlG ltIlltlLGIS u tllG SOIL ana ElalntalTl-
ing
ITS PRODUCTIVE CAPACITY.
The poultry exhibits tell us whether the
people have eggs and fowls and a varied
digestible diet, or whether they live OH
bacon and other food saturated with indi-
gestible lard.
The cereal and vegetable departments
will show whether the agriculturist tills
his land properly, sows and plants the best
kinds of seed, and then harvests well and
properly prepares it for market.
The green fruit exhibits will tell whether
the people are taking advantage of the new
order OF things, and getting in line to fur
nish the Eastern people with these luscious
fruits of the semi-tropics and to make in
comparably greater profits from their land
than from wheat and barley growing.
The machinery, agricultural implements,
carriage and wagon departments and ma
chinery products show how far a commu-
nifty is advanced in industrial art and
science. Good exhibits in this line indicate
the saving of labor in productive and cheap
products, so as to be able to compete in dis
tant markets and still make profit.
They will also show how far manufact-
ures in the district have progressed. If
the machinery products are good, we may
be sure that factories, FORCES and mills are
already established, and are being patron
lied, thereby giving employment to the
best of populations, the skilled artisans,
and saving the money of
THE PRODUCER At HOME
The mercantile displays will inform us
whether the merchants are an active, en-
ergetic class, buying for cash, for they can
prosper under no other system, and whether
they buy with judgment and taste; or, on
the other hand, whether they belong to a
fossiliZed age long past, and the people
have 10 go to some distant place to spend
their money, to get what they require
Look at the exhibits of ideal art and you
can tell more of the character of the peo-
pie Of district than in any other way. In
this department should be included every
thing not of the absolute necessities OF life
1t should include all the furnishings of
the house in the city or the country those
things that make up the refinements ele-
gancies and educational influences of home
life; the paper, pictures and other decora-
tons on the wall, the carpets and rugs on
the floor, the furniture in the house and
the flowers ON the lawn-all that makes
the home beautiful and lovabie. If the
exhibits of all these are Of high order we
know that the people are intelligent, re-
fined and cultured. In short q district fair
is perfect and true reflex OF the type of
civilization in the district.
THE THIRTEENTH AGRICULTURAL DISTRICT
Is composed of the counties OF Yuba, Suffer,
Yolo and Sacramento, but owing to the
means of transportation between these
counties Yolo has never exhibited at the
fairs or attended them in any numbers, and
Sacramento reserves her exhibits for her
State fair. The exhibition, therefore only
represents 9uba and Suffer counties so far
as district exhibits are concerned. Yuba
and Suffer counties are situated in the heart
of the Sacramento valley. The soil is good :;
clear, crystal streams from the SHOWS in the
great mountains furnish an abundance of
the best water; belts of pine, spruce and
fir, on the Sierra Nevadas, give plenty of
timber for lumber and fuel; the plains and
valleys are dotted with groves Of oak, and
the climate is excelled by none on earth,
being half semi-tropical. The range of
productions is as great as in any other
known country; all the cereals and vegeta-
BILE, all the deciduous fruits, including the
apple, peach, plum, cherry and apricot, the
small fruits, the citrus fruits - oranges,
lemons and lines, the olive, the pome-
granate, persimmon; all the nut-bearing
trees, and every kind of grape-raisin, wine
and table-grow here in generous quanti-
ties and of the most perfect quality These
counties were among the first settled III the
American OCCUPATION. The transporta-
ton by water gave the miner farmer
and merchant cheap and
RAPID TRANSIT
To the seaboard. Schools, churches.
newspapers and manufactures were
early established, and gained a sure
footing and fiourished here. The earliest
settlers were the best of the gold and
home-hunting people, who had the enter
prise, energy ard daring to cross the savage
wilds in search of homes and fortunes, and
most of them had the foresight and iudg-
ment to stay here. Those two counties,
although small in area, have advantages
that compensate for any lack in size. The
landholdings are usually small There are
none of those vast tracts that bar progress
as in other sections. Every 100 or 800
acres has its family, with healthy and TO-
bust sons and daughters TO overlook and
help in the labor of the farm. There is,
therefore, an almost entire absence of ab-
sentee landlordism and tramp labor, those
unmidgated curses of other sections of the
State. Marysville is the commercial empo-
rum of this section, enjoying the trade hot
only of those two counties, but drawing
custom from Butte, Colusa, Nevada and
Sierra counties. 1t has a population of
5000 people, fine schools, libraries, success
full manufactures, big stocks of goods, large
building capital, and energy and enterprise
to make a great city. Suffer county has all
good land, is in sure crop belt, never hav-