Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1897-08-20
THE VIcKsB URG FAIR.

rapid progress.
In purchasing the grounds at
which the Association held It's
Fair and Race Meeting last fall,
it has provided for itself a perma-
nent home and the continuance OF
its interesting meetings is thereby
ensured. The price paid for the
grounds was about 100000 AL
ready the Association owned i'm
provements on the property, re-
movable at its pleasure, valued
at $500 90, and these will at an
early date be supplemented by the
erection of new buildings, and the
addition of other improvements.
Additional space for exhibits is,
indeed, imperatively demanded, as
many large displays of Agricul-
tursl Implements by manufactur-
ers are already promised. These
exhibits will be in the nature OF
a revelation 10 our people, and
will prove of especial interest to
THAT growing class OF agricultur-
lists-the small farmers. AS q
rule, the large planter has been
the first to use the improved i'm
plements put on the market here;
but OF the Fair this fall tests of
lall kinds of improved implements,
made under the direction Ct ex-
perts in charge of these exhibits,
will give every visitor an oppor-
tunity of seeing practical domon-
stration of the superiority Of new
methods over old.
The great firms of Manseur &
Tebbetts, Avery, Moline Imple-
ment Co., and many Others have
already displayed a lively interest
in this department.
Among the mos. entertaining OF
, the exhibits of this character is
likely to be the cotton-picker. In
addition to the cotton-picker there
will be improved hay-presses, pea,
lhullers, cultivators, plows and @
> thousand and one other varieties
, of the latest agricultural tools and
! implements.
o. More interesting, however, thar
? , she tools of any profession Of
/, businsss are the products thai
v they help to bring forth; and n'
: display is ever more entertaining
J to farmer, business man, lawye
land laymsn alike, than the re
: lmarkable products of our wonder
etful section. These will be showl
Y in lavish profusion by the Expert
!. mental Stations of both Mississip
ytpi and Louisiana, and by exhibi
g tions from all over both States
q II is the earnest desire OF th
- Association to impress upon tn
3 pee pie the ability of every house
10 holder to make Q creditable dii
B. play for himself. If he has hal
e dozen fine pumpkins or a bushe
j. Of fine corn; if he has a plate {
n fall or winter apples, pears c
1t grapes; if he has fine hay, cane
u tobacco, honey, butter, any or
of these things may be entered fc
competition for cash premium
without cost 10 himself. If h
wife has fancy work, or preserve
: or almost any one of the hundred
)" of little things the thrifty hous
wife prepares, she can enter Il
" competition at the Fair on I'll
same terms. In other words, Il
90 exhibition Is to be q. good o
!" country fair-one of those fal
that, though now almost THU
= of the past, are yet fondly +
called by many of Us.
But it will be something mo
than the old time country fal
for during the five days rsce-mee
ing that the Association includ
in its programme, the events. ha
y mesa and running, will be bett
- than any other racing that b
been seen in Mississippi. Und
the direction of the well-knoV
" Mr. w. P. McNsir as startir
Judge, aud with men of recogni1
integrity from Mississippi q
- Louisiana as judges at the fms
y visitors will be able 70 enjoy cleo
"a honest horse-racing.
The Cottla and Swine Depa