Year: 1859

FosTERs BAR, Aug. 3d.


EDITOR DEMOCRAT In view of the coming
District Fair to be holden at Marysville this
month, having an earnest desire that it may
prove eminertly useful in furthering the agri-
cultural interest.of the country, am induced
to say word or two upon the subject. | do
not propose at this time to speak of what is
or what is not profitable to the farmer, or
what shall be the nlodus operandi of his ac-
ton to secure the greatest amount of profit,
or what species of stock will prove the most
remunerative or best adapted to his use, or
what labor-saving implements he shall use or
of whose manufacture, or to dictate to the
miner how he shall work his claim or on
what grade he shall sci his suices. Such
recommendations might look very well on
paper but to the practical man it would seem
the height of folly. The varied positions and
circumstances connected with men and things
render i'll impossible to recommend this, or
that with any general degree of utility. This
exhibition will, properly sustained and en-
couraged, result in much good by establish
| ing agriculture and home manufactures upon
a firm and more economical basis, and in
measure, doing away with the necessity of
importing large proportion of the articles
we now consume. Consequently, we shall
retain large proportion of the treasure we
export to meet our Indebtedness, which in the
aggregate amounts to about sixty thousand
dollars. This annually disseminated through
the various branches Of business, will give us
ease and independence and create and diffuse
general prosperity and happiness among the
masses. Thousands of dollars and q large
amount of time will be expended in get
ting up this exhibition, and whether this
money and time is proftably laid out or
wasted or perhaps worse than wasted de-
pends upon the action of those intelligent
farmers and mechanics and particularly those
scores of contributors who reside in the
northern portion of the State. Those who
will not attend can not of course desire any
benefit, but on the contrary, will do an ac
tual injury, as their presence is needed to
countenance and encourage to make it sue
cessful. Some portion of the show may not
be what they would desire, but they must re.
member that this Society is Democratic in its
character all having an equal voice in its
government and all being equally response
ble for lis management, therefore, they can
not shrink from the responsibility by folding
their arms and complaining of what others
have done or left undone, Not only is their
| presence needed but their aid in making up
the great show of agricultural productions
and implements. They are all needed, too, on
Committees, and if they have been appointed
they should be sure and attend, as the alb
sence of one honest man often causes good
deal of trouble They should not be so
modest as to think whatever they have is so
much inferior to that of their neghbors as to
make the exhibition discreditable to them
selves and unworthy of the Society was
troubled with this kind of modesty once. l
thought l had nothing good enough, but
when | saw the articles on exhibition,
caught myself thinking occasionally could
have beat this or that. | came to the deter
m ination, once for all, to show the best had
and leave matter of merit with the Commit
tees


From the reputation of the gentlemen who
have been elected as Board of Managers, we
have every reason to expect that great care
will be exercised in selecting men for the va
rious Committees, whose taste and practice
eminently fit them to judge of the articles and
not of men, and thus guarding against the
old complaint of fpartiatity and .fagoritisn,, al
so, perfecting every arrangement to render
tue soiourn Of the contributor or guest both
pleasant and profitable OCCASIONAL