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four large and veiy handsome Cards, in gilt frames with plate glass, and a 

 number of neat samples of Book, Pamphlet, and odier Printing. Of Book- 

 binding, and Blank Books, there were two fine samples; one from Charles 

 AYeed, Madison, and the other from Rood «i; Whittemore, Milwaukee. There 

 were many other articles in the central Tent worthy of notice which I must pass 

 by for the present. 



In the Mechanical Depai-tment the show was small. The most noticeable articles 

 were handsome sets of Single and Double Harness, from Geo. Dyer, Milwaukee; 

 Copper Coffee Urns, with Lamps, fi-om H. K. Egertox & Co., Milwaukee; and 

 some samples of Hardware, from H. J. Nazro <k Co, Milwaukee. Crane's Patent 

 Soap, manufactured by E. D. Ladd, of Milwaukee, and found, upon trial, to be 

 a fii-st-rate article, was the object of much attention from the Ladies. In the 

 same neighborhood, was a handsome display of Cheese and Butter, small in 

 quantity, but excellent in quahty. The largest and apparently the finest of the 

 Cheeses came from the Farm of Samuel A. Thtrstox, Bm-lington, Racine 

 Count}'. 



In the same shed were displayed the Agricultmal products. The show of 

 these, as yet, is small, but the quality superior. There are samples of Winter 

 Wheat, raised in this County, which would be hard to beat anywhere, and a 

 Squash from Dane County weighing two hundred pounds. I saw, too, some 

 handsome Sweet Potatoes and superb Broom Corn, grown on the fertile soil of 

 old Rock. A barrel of superfine Family Floui-, from Jackmax »fe Smith's MUls, 

 Janes\-ille, looks fair to win the premium to-morrow. It is, indisputably, first rate. 



But I must hurry on with this hasty sketch. — Within the enclosure, and in 

 the open field, there is a very fine display of Stock and Agricultm-al Implements. 

 The show of Cattle, Horees, and Sheep, is particularly fine, jmd has struck all 

 with agreeable sui*prise.. I saw and admired the famous Paular Merino Bucks of 

 Mr. E. W, Drurt, President of the Society, which shear from twelve to fomteen 

 pounds annually, of a wool worth sixty cents per poimd. They are full-blooded 

 and of an approved stock — some of the very same Bucks ha\'ing sold in Vermont 

 this year for 8200 and 6300 ! There were othei's almast as fine on the ground 

 from other parte of the State. 



Among the Agricultural Implements, there was contributed a very fine assort- 

 ment from Thompson Littell's Agiicultural Wai-ehouse in Milwaukee. They 

 were manufactured by Ruggles, Xourse, Mason A: Co., of Worcester, Mass. 



Of the Cattle, I shall have st:)mething to say to-morrow. Janesville is 

 already filletl to overflowing, and private hospitality is abundantly taxed t'^ 

 provide for the throng of visitoi-s. An addition to the crowd is expe<:ted to- 

 »norrow. 



