Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1890-06-05
FARMING THAT PAYS.
GRAND EXHIBITION OF THE sUc-
cEssFUL AMERICAN FARMERS.


A Great Continental Expedition That VIII
Show Farming That Pays and How to
Mako 1t Pay-Also the Grandest Gem
eral Fair OF America-Races, Sports,
Bpectacles, Concerts, Art, Inventions
and Manufactures-The Great Attrsc-
tiOn Of 1890.
Political journals have in late years
made familiar the interesting and really
important question: Does Farming Pay!
On the one side it has been contended that
farming Is the worst rewarded and the
most toilsome and least progressive OF oc-
cupations; on the other that it is the best,
II not the best rewarded of business, and
that the farmer is the freest and most in
dependent of all classes of busy men. One
side represents farms generally as all
plastered over with mortgages, the ma
jority of which are sure to be foreclosed;
the other side presents the farmer as the
least indebted and the surest to pay off his
obligations.
Whatever may be the truth as regards
farming in general, 1t is an undeniable
fact that some farming pays, and that
some farmers are conspicuously success
full. There are farms and their owners
that have wide regulations all over the
country. These notable examples are
generally known for some specially, but
there are many of them, proving that
there are many specialties, and that many
branches of farming may be made sue
cessful specialties by similar care and
methods.
Evidently it is good thing for all farm
ers to have an opportunity to became ac-
quainted with these successful men and
their methods, and to examine their spe-
cially excellent products. Hence local
county and state fairs are good things SO
far as they 60.
But there will be, this year, one great
will collect from all the states and ter
ritories Of the Union, and from all the
provinces Of Canada, besides from some
! foreign countries, grand aggregation Of
the choicest farm stock of the whole
American continent, from the most fa-
nous focks and herds--cattle, horses,
sheep, swine, poultry-in all varieties;
and will add to these the largest display
ever shown in the United States Of farm
ing implements and machinery; and the
finest collection Of fruits of all sorts, large
and small grains, grasses, root crops, gar
den and farm vegetables, cheese, but
ter, honey, bees and all bee-keepers'
tools and methods; and also q
vast and costly exhibition Of all kinds of
machinery, manufactures, rich and valu-
able wares and goods, gems and jewels,
art work, Inventions; the largest and
costliest picture gallery on this continent;
and, in fact, everything that can please
or instruct.
This will be the Second Annual Detroit
International Fair and Exposition. It
offers premiums amounting to three times
more than any other association has ever
offered in this country, and it is conducted
ON scale larger and more liberal than
any great fair or exposition in the United
States has ever before ventured upon.
Nor will the useful only be amply pro
vided for, but every variety of spectacle
and sport, music and art, will furnish
charming pleasures for the multitudes
There will be every variety of horse racing
and xhibitions-running, trotting, pacing
and leaping-by the most famous and cost
ly horses In the world. There will bt
atheletic sports. There will be regattas
canoe races by Indians, and running
matches. There will be balloon ascen
sions and thrilling drops from the cloud
by both men and women.
The best music in America will be fur
nished in daily and nightly concerts b.
Cappas renowned Seventh Regiment New
York band, with forty eminent soloists.
: The magnificent Art Hall will be f1llet
with 800 Of tho choicest American ant
:. European paintings, statuary and othe
fine art works, and will
= also contain the two most famou
large paintings Of the present age, eacl
costing fortune-one by the famou
: Russian painter, Constantin Makoffsky
:, the favorite Of the Czar and the unchal
9 lenged king Of the great colorists o
e Europe, represented in. his surprisingl
beautiful painting of "The Judgment Q
Paris" costing $500 per day merely for th
expense of its exhibition; and the other th
f grandest religious painting of moder
a times, the masterpiece Of Munkascy, th
= world-famous Hungarian romancis
= @Christ on Calvary"
I. Every evening there will be the grandei
= and most startling pyrotechnic and DR.,
a = matte spectacular exhibition of the age
" Pain s. Sons magnificent "The Last Day
. Of Pompeii"-in which will be show
q = the ancient Roman amphitheatre, with l,
: :, fierce multitude clamoring for THROWN
= Christians to the wild beasts at the gladi
!. torial games; Its splendid view of-the Gil
y and its temples; the vast volcanic moul
= tain Of the sea; the sudden eruption of q
y volcano, and the terrific scene OF the d
y struction Of the city and the frantic rus
!, Of the frightened population TO escape I
e the sea; followed nightly by the most ra
J. and magnificent display of fireworks ev'
~ shown on this continent. This exhibiti6
y has been the most startling sensation
80 London and New York, and has been Z
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