The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1889-08-09
The Agricultural Fair.

Only little time now and the Salem
County Agricultural Fair, for the year
1889, will have come and gone and be
thing of the past. When properly man.
aged, agricultural fairs for an agricultural
district of country like that of Salem
county, and more especially Pilesgrove
township, can be made to the farming
classes a real necessity, and should be an
attraction, too, if the interest in the ex-
hibits be kept up. The management
should in all cases be under the supervision
of men who control their own business sue
eessfully, whether it be in the forming,
mechanical or mercantile line, and not
made up Of such as will work it so as to
render the greatest amount of profit to a
chosen few at the expense of the other
stockholders and to the detriment of the
association. 1t is just the place for
the suburban (and urban, too, as for that
natter population to gather and compare
notes with each other. There is something
in the very air pervading such places that
makes it. above all other places, a most
congenial resort for the agricuiturist. The
sights and sounds are not unfamiliar, and
the display of ducks, chickens. cows,
horses, pumpkins, big oxen, and other big
things is not a round about way of appeal
ing to their material sense. 1t goes right
u. "A
home here than at an art gallery exhibit
ton. academy Of the natural sciences, or
in visiting the city opera-more, in fact,
than anywhere else unless, perhaps, it be
at the village church, or on the old-fash-
Toned camp-meeting grounds. And why
not place for the farmer as well as for
other classes? Everybody and everything
else has some sort of holy ground on which
to tread. Bankers their conventions, mer-
chants their places of exchange, others
their club rooms etc, and why not the
farmer place he can call his own? So we
think it well that the farmer have sort
of mecca, where once year, and at least
one day in the year, they may come to-
gether and have good time, for if any
body under the Heavens is deserving this
latter it is the grower of twenty-five cent
potatoes, fifty cent corn and 90 cent wheat.
"Man wants but little here below.
some one once sang, NOR wants that little
long, and the poet could well have prov
en- his claim to inspiration il he had sub
stituted farmer for man in the above
couplet. The farmer, too, is the one most
benefited in the conduct of we'll support
ed agricultural exhibition. Here he can
learn what neighbor A B md have ac-
complished in tho way of improving their
stock, and as a consequence improved their
chances for making living. They can
not only inspect the big corn. mammoth
pumpkins and other wonderful productions
Of productive soil, but what is more inn
portant still, learn how the result was
brought about. They can compare notes
one with another, talk on this matter and
that, joke with the women folks, praise
their neighbours baby, Off the neighbor
happens to be present, il not the greater
fun still of tongue flashing him like Sam
HID, tell what brand Of fertilizer pays
best and where to be had. what breed of
cows, sheep. swine are the most profitable.
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