The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1902-11-07

Al tidt DuiiutnS were udruWaTS eS
hibits beautifully arranged; fertilizers
booths, electrical b,oths, and things
numerous, but people was in my
light" 80 iight(ed) out for the
- HN MACHINERY HALL.
On the way 1 encountered three
grain drills and a self binding reaper
but as these were not the things
was looking fer l kept moving. On
moving 1 passed noise, a mighty
one, and looking up saw a man try
ing to ruin his throat hollering, saw
an ad. "She eats them alive" and
noticed it was, eating snakes. AS
could see buzzards eating them
around home, my dime rested in my
pocket and 1 entered the hall, paid
my respects to some fine engines, saw
the best machine, 1 thought, cleaning
all sorts of foreign substances out Of
grain. A machine with which a
man could make money out of wind"
so 1 fell in love with it and would
like to own one. 1 saw "Jeems
Dandy" corn and cotton seed planter
and fertilizer distributor, and fell
heels over head in love with that,
and am thinking of getting one as a
good" part in farming. 1 saw a
nice little cultivator and pockcted a
descriptive circular and was told to
read it when l had the time. AS l
have not yet had the time 1 have not
read it, but will, and then show it
to my neishbors if they wish it. 1
examined then the State Farm ex-
hibit which I think was fine. Two
of the biggest hams I ever saw were
there. bet old Phil Armour nor
Swift never smoked bigger ones with
corn cobs and sold as Justly cole
brated" in all their lives unless it
was a horses ham. Everything
here was up,to-date or little be-
yond. | passed by the buggy and
carriage department and went to
where 1 knew from the noise that
some geese were acting the "goose,"
THE POULTRY HOUSE,
and found it even 80. The geese
were the fssssofthe poultry l saw,
and there were so many. and they
seemed to be trying to "cheer" every
body, and some Of them may be dead
now with sore throat. They were
past noisy, and every variety I reck>
on, in the world, even to the wild
goose, that can be distinguished
among thousand, by ear, from its
peculiar voice. There were some
fine large ones sure. Ducks, the old
ugly muscove and all other kinds 1
reckon, big turkeys, doves, and about
every variety of chickens that exists.
If there are any other variety / can
not conceive of any idea how they
would look, unless it was just simply
looking out Of their eyes, if they were
not the eyeless kind. There were
powerful" nasty looking ones, those
old gawky, musky looking, hollow
eyed, buzzard>headed, feather. footed.
scaly-legged things some people call
fine Brahmas and Coachins, that ap-
pears to me were made only for
Cinnamon to eat, but that is none of
my business, only they are the heath
en- chicken and the contractor and
spreader of poultry diseases: The
games were the neatest and plumpest
| saw, then the intermediate breeds
that rose or fell, according to my
opinion, as they approached either
Of the extremes, the lowest the Asi-
atics, or the highest the games.
ran afoul an old frizzly rooster that
| thought must have been the chicken
fattened on an Aultman u Taylor
straw stack. No doubt you have
heard of it. saw "broken-heart.
ed" rooster, and l pitied him. He
was in a pen with ducks and he had
no chicken to talk to, and he looked
detected. 1t was evident he did not
like such company. 1 saw some
chickens with combs and gills large
enough to make Lilliputian black.
smiths apron, but / admired the
good bone anu muscle in their neoks
l went then to the
STOCK PENS,
and if l am not an "export" on all
kinds Of stock, 1 know what l think
is fine, nice or pretty, and saw all
this except never saw a pretty
jackass, even if some are fine ami