Fisherman & farmer. [volume], October 04, 1895, Image 1

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Located in the Finest Fish, Truck and Farming Section in North Carolina.
ESTABLISHED 1886.
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EDENTON, N. C. FRIDAY, OCTOBER 4 1895.
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tv body is invited
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s'ji vv t'J make tlie fair
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! -'iccii-':'. lias lecn reached.
n :.v.av tVoiu the fair or
,a:!i in making it big and
j hvTts 0:1 !v the j)eople and
.reins:.. i.r the greater the
joci' the exhibition, the
SxX tlie benefit to the people.
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',Vc !!.;:. atu-nd the Udciiton fair,
:;i ;--.f.-f :it h :r.e l;ehiud us
M we.irvm care.
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::nc:er Fields, More Speed,
ui Better Racing Than
Ever Before.
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The oullool
for high-class
j'toa tiie race tracks at our
! fairs lias not been so favor
's for :;umv years.
It is expected that the race
"'st will 1 1 rive the jrrandest
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p-ricaee in its history. There
'H ie :-tr..vigcr fields, more
v 1 aa 1 in re sensations than
i'l-re is an unprecedented
'J'''',r i fa.-t horses in the
'''ntrv tii.it will be campaigned
"a;s year, r-:ul the probabilities
'; t'i-tt entries at the Edenton
:i'rvillb; doubled in every class.
tvery afternoon will be a
v-'l m.itinee of sport. The
W stand will be filled with
people o.iy with bright costumes,
bnlliaiit with still brighter faces.
:'!::;in with smiles, and loud in
;-:.sj of the favorites whose
;ur;ts f speed and neck and
contests towards the wire,
t;'-e crowd into emotional
S!'0Uts in tnl-r-11 rvf tli intpflSP
Merest tiiev feel in the results.
. ra;r i.kucs and handsome men
Jav special desire to. be seen
J?n the grand stand. But its
Parous are not confined to this
ss of people. Everybody who
Kes to sec races, likes to get a
iiiandinjr viev of them. The
fcttiul stand is the place, and as
toe charge is small, all should
Patronize the grand stand.
Good races honorably conduct
.htlp more than any one other
lnS to make a fair interesting
successful. Our speed con-
Uov to Come to The Fair.
Come from the hillsides, and come
from tlie plain,
Coir.e in your vehicles, or conic on the
train;
Come upon foot, a hor:;e or a ticycle
ride,
Firing families and sweethearts alon:
by your side.
Come all as you can, and come rieht
alon,.
The attendance help swell to a mighty
big throng.
Come to the fair from miles and miles
'round,
There's room for you al! when you get
on the ground.
Where so much wiil transpire, miss it,
110 never,
For they who are absent will rue it forever:
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tests will be supervised by W.
M. I'ojid assisted bv honest and
competent judges, who will be
instructed to rigidlv discipline,
rirKor tv-br ox-rt rlos and
debar tiieken, exact ciob ana,
fair contests, and award the i
j purses to only those who houest-
ly win.
; ' There is an especial reason
j why local breeders should pat
jronize home fairs in preference
I to all others. In order that your
j colts should become performers
j on the turf it is necessary that
j they become educated, and the
i home fair is just the place to
'show their speed in public and
! make sales. Speedmeu should
1 help the local fair, where ex
I penses are less, and put forth an
! effort to keep as much as possi-
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ble of the premium money at
home.
There is no class ot races so
intensely interesting at our fairs
as when local horses come to
gether in rivalry. Though the
purse is small, the enjoyment of
most any race is tame in compar
ison to a go in which the starters
are all local celebrities. For
this reason colt races are of great
interest to fair goers. The cons
testants have been known to the
crowd from birth, and they are
especial favorites of hundreds of
soectators who watch the contest
with the keenest interest, ana
feel greatly affected in their vic
tory &or defeat. For this reason
we aim to have not only the us
ual trots, but give recognition to
th younger class of horses know
ing that thereby we not only
benefit breeding interests, but
increase our gate receipts, and
the interest which all will feel
in the races, and the satisfaction
race lovers will derive from the
sport.
FAIR ISOTES.
Preparations for the coming
Fair are being made elaborately
and systematically for the best
agricultural exhibition ever had
in this section.
If you do not feel like attend
ing more than one fair this year,
it should be your home fair. It
will suffer no extortionate charg
es and all may rely upon having
a pleasant and ' profitable time.
The great pictorial lessons af
forded by our fairs, render the
Autumnal season during which
they are held, a vast school, in
which nearly every branch of
practical learning is taught in
some degree.
The Edenton Fair is not a
school room hemmed in by four
narrow walls, but in open air
beneath a sky of Italian softness,
smiling down upon a country as
beautiful and serene as the sun
ever shone upon.
Our fair is not a school for
people of any special age or class,
but men, women and children of
every age, station or condition,
flock here tor rest, recuperation
and inspiration as well as for
information.
No other country of the world
boasts of an institution similar
to our fairs, and we certainly
have no grander achievement. In
them we see the annual proof of
America's intellectual progress,
and the expansion of our minds
toward perfection.
LIVE STOCK EXHIBIT.
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mien Witt Their Finest
Droves tjerds and
Flocks of
HORSES, CATTLE, SHEEP.
SWINK AND POULTRY, REPRE
SENTING THE FINEST AND
BEST OF EVERY BREED AND
CLASS.
One of the distinct features of
a Fair, and one of its agricultural
characteristics, is the Live Stock
Exhibit. Every person who
owns or admires choice domestic
animals will find-the Edenton
Fair a place of both personal and
pecuniary interest.
Horses.
"rank Wood. Director.
The exhibition of show horses
usually draws a big crowd to the
show ring. There one may see
proudsstepping, high-spirited-
arch necked, powerful ana pon -
aerous steeuu, w i l u suaggy
manes and heavy fetlocks, that
seem to make the earth tremble
as they move along; the fleet
footed, lithe-limbed, well-trained
equines with sleek, satin like
coats, prancing and dancing be
fore the judges' eyes; the diminu
tive pigmeau ponies, and the
docile, domestic horse admired
by everybody.
"Man's faithful friends from morn till
eve."
Tn the several rings araiu
in uic cv-ii &
horses, farm horses, coach horses,
Tn the several rings clraitJ
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FEW months ago the frost king had spread his white
mantle over our land and hoary Winter was abiding
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' v,le! ' visit, and soon we hd the trees and plants sending
forth their green leaves, the opening buds and blossoms, the hum
of the insect and the song of the birds. Then came Summer with
its rich harvests of golden grain, its red, fiery heat, its shade, its
rambles and its outings. And now comes the mellow, quiet
golden days of Autumn.
The sun seems to linger behind orange clouds in the dusty
evening and the moon throws an amber tinge over orchards, and
cornfields, and remind us that the frost king will soon again be
our guest. The sturdy husbandman is once more impressed with
the fact that the time is drawing nigh for him to give an account
of his stewardship of the year, to show how well the talent en
trusted to him has been used, by exhibiting at the Edenton Agri
cultural and Fish Fair the choicest products begotten by his
season's toil.
All nature seems now to be resting and regathering strength
after tlie final travail ot tlie soon
peculiarly fitting, therefore, that
queutlv attempted it, has never yet
than nature, should rest too, and by a happy coincidence benefit
both himself and the live stock, and agricultural interests of his
county by showing his best animals and soil products, and seeing
those of his neighbor ; taking his
and industrial event and school of
guided in the ways of intelligence
noteworthy and representative gathering or the season, rest Irom
the toil and care of the year that is so rapidly gliding by, and draw
inspiration to do better in the new
ed in upon them.
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business horses, buggy horses,
saddle horses, siuele drivers and
in o i-r-h r-A tprni c;trni arh t tails and
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ban sr tails the best there is of
every breed and class will com
pete. Cattle
Rev. K. B. Drane, Director
There may be seen the great,
lubberly, lazy-looking, thick i
necked bulls; the tame, subdued
cows with immense udders, ruby
Shorthortis, spotted Ilolsteins,
white-faced Here fords, hornless
Doddies, the meek and mil 1 Jer
seys and Alcierneys, and every
pure bred variety of cattle, some
with long horns, some with
short horns, and some hornless,
all nicely groomed and faultless
ly handled for the prize.
Sheep.
Abram Bonner, Director.
Sheep were probably the first
animals domesticated by man.
They were a domestic animal in
Europe and Asia lone before the
dawn of history, and through all
the ages they have lost none of
their interest or usefulness to
inanlri
jpart of every fanUf aud no fair
would be complete without them.
The show embraces fine wools,
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coarse wools and medium wools;
to-be-over harvest. It seems
man, who, though he has fre-
been able to do more work
familv to the great agricultural
the year, so that they may be
and progress, attend the most
year that will so soon be usher
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timid and modest lambs and
ewes; strong and fearless bucks,
some with more horns than
head, and some hornless, some
with'snowy, downy fleeces like
"Mary's lamb," some ugly aud
wrinkly like the "Darby ram,"
some with white, clean, intelli
gent faces, and some with black
faces. The shepherd, the ad
mirer of sheep, and those inter
ested in sheep husbandry, are all
invited and expected at our Fair.
Swine.
Abram Bonner, Director.
You are commanded not to
cast your pearls before swine but
this does not excuse vou from
attending our Fair and seeing
the swine exhibit. The classifi
cation embraces all breeds
white, black, red, sandy, and
spotted; big and little and no
one can afford to miss the show.
Poultry.
D. G. Bond, Director.
Ever since the cock crow
startled the ear of the repentant
Peter, mankind has reverenced
j this domestic fowl, and an ex
i hibit of poultry always interests
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FAIR NOTES.
The exhiLiU at c fair fan our
zeal for knowledge, and call our
attention forcibly to the living
problem of industrial and agri
cultural education.
While we are extravagant in
the description and praise of the
Edenton Fair, yet we risk noth
ing in saying that everybody
who visits it this year, will find
what they see in reality far ex
ceeding any conception of it
formed from reading this paper.
The live stock feature of a fair
is always a popular one. A long
row of stalls filled with the
choicest possessions of stock
raisers, is an attraction that is
always inviting and interesting,
and a grand parade of premium
animals is a scene that has no
superior.
Our American genius has cre
ated a peculiarly American in
stitution in our agricultural fairs,
and nobody should permit our
show for this year to pass by
without its having a chance to
exert upon him to the widest
extent, all its enlightening and
elevating influences.
We aim not only to ecpiial all
former exhibitions, but to excel
any and all of them. The best
proof of the sincerity of our pre
tentions can be found by attend
ing the fair this year, and testing
for yourself, by comparing it
with the exhibitions you have
witnessed upon our grounds in
previous years.
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all classes of people. We offer
premiums upon a great number
of varieties of chickens, ducks,
geese aud turkeys, and expect an
exhibit of unusual size and in
terest. Accommodations.
There will be plenty of well
arranged and suitable stall, sheds
and pens, for use of exhibitors of
live stock, and hay, straw and
water within convenient reach.
The managers desire that the
people may have an opportunity
of getting the most out of the
live stock exhibit, aud require
that the stalls, sheds, and pens
must be open at all times, so
that visitors may not only have
a chance to see the animals in
the show ring, but an opportunity
to pass about and have the
pleasure of making close exami
nation of the different animals, if
they so desire. Men will be
employed to keep the stalls and
pens aud the surroundings clean
and unobjectionable, and the j
walks and aisles free from ob
structions, so that visitors may
move about easily.
Sales of Stock.
A feature of the Fair, one
which is worthy of great consid
eration, is the facility it offers for
a sale of live stock. Many go to
it as a market, expecting to buy
in case they find something suit
able. This feature is so well
known by experienced breeders
and stock-men that they are
very apt to have their sale ani
mals on the fair grounds ready
to show to those who desire to
be buyers. In this way there is
a large gathering of buyers and
sellers every year on the grounds,
while the fair is in progress.
Our fair offers unexampled op
portunities for sale of purchase
of live stock, and buyers as well
as sellers are cordially invited to
attend, and test the truth of this
j recommendation.
The Crop's Commencement.
All in a row upon the stand
Sitrve and wheat, the nation's ration,
And corn and oats and llax as well,
Ready for graduation.
Exciting days are these afield,
The harvester's on top
A-preacliiug to the cereals there
The baccalaurate of the crop.
All in a crowd and at the fair
Observant people stand and gaze
And praise each lovely kind
And choose the one next year, they'll
raise.
Machinery Hall
Products of tne Work
shop and Factory.
The usefulness of fairs as edu
cators through which agricultu
ralists can learn about the prog
ress of invention as applied to
their calling, is universally con
ceded. It is through them that
the farmer comes in contact with
the latest improvements, and the
manufacturer keeps in touch
with the people who furnish
him a market for his products.
One of the primary purposes J
of holding a fair is to provide an
opportunity for displaying the
machinery, tools, implements
and utensils by which husbandry
can be enlarged and made easy
and successful; such as improved
plows, harrows, drills, planters,
mowers, reapers, rakes, tedders,
binders, stackers, threshers,
grinders,horse powers, stationaiy
and traction engines, windmills
and other motors.
For The Dairy ami House
hold. Farmers and their friends are
usually greatly interested in the
display of dairy appliances, such
as churns, coolers, creameries,
and in the advanced processes by
which more and better butter
and cheese can be made from the
same milk, and with less work
and more profit. Then nothing
Premium List.
LIBERAL PRIZES OF
FERED. The Book is Complete And Ex
haustive and Will be Sent
to any Address.
The Premium List has been
carefully and thoroughly review
ed, revised, corrected and amend
ed and is now finished, complete
and exhaustive.
The wants of exhibitors have
been carefully studied, and con
cessions made wherever the ex
hibition could be prospectively
strengthened, and as enlarged
liberality is displayed in the
prizes offered, with a view to
the expansion of the number and
quality of the exhibits, we are
assured of a mammoth, match
less exhibition of all the variety
and multiplicity of our country's
choice agricultural, mechanical,
industrial, material and artistic
products.
Every department of husban
dry, industry, art, commerce and
education is embraced, and to
witness the competitive eilorts
will strengthen, diversify and
extend knowledge, stimulate im
provements, and redound greatly
to the improvement of all. It is
expected that the exhibits will
show an unusual high order of
merit, and that the earnest, spir
ited strife, contention and revalry
among ardent contestants for
prizes will be greatly augmented
and animated over that we have
had at any former fair.
Those who desire catalogues
giving premiums, and other par
ticulars concerning the cxhibi
tion.shonld address the Secretary,
who will send one promptly, free
of charge.
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excels in interest the exhibition
of household utensils, such as
washing machines, wringers,
clothes-dryeis, stoves aud range s,
refrigerators, aud other similar
articles needed for modern house
hold economy.
Vehicles.
Not only the farmer, but other
people as well, are interested in
the displays of harness, carts,
sulkies, carriages, surreys, plne
tous, coaches, landaus, sleighs
and sleds, bicycles and tricycles,
wagons, and other vehicles for
the safe, rapid or convenient
transportation of loads, by every
mode, or for taking a pleasure or
business trip of any kind some
possessing style, some beauty of
finish, some durability, some
cheapness, and some workman
ship. Summary.
This department embraces all
the multitudinous machines, de
vices, appliances and inventions,
upon which the farmer is de
pendent for reward and comfort
in the cultivation of his fields,
the planting aud gathering of
his crops, the rearing of his
herds and flocks, in lightening
the labor and augmenting the
pleasure of the loved ones who
make up his household, and
which so astonish and impress
one with the transcendent and
welcome superiority of the age
in which we live, over that of
our fathers. Here one can read
ily see how it is that modern
skill and inventive genius have
accomplished the wonderful de
velopment of our country's re
sources, and made ours the fore
most agricultural and manufac
turing nation of the world.
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