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building excepting at tlie point of entrance from tlie town hall, 

 and the point of egress into the grounds, and a double center 

 table ran through the middle. Here the vegetables were dis- 

 played. The tables were made by driving two stakes into the 

 ground at each end and in the center, nailing elects to connect 

 each pair of stakes so placed as to rise a little above the stakes, 

 and then laying boards upon the elects. The tables in the hall 

 were made by placing together two backed benches, laying 

 pickets across, laying boards on the pickets and covering with 

 domestic. 



The grounds in connection were enclosed by a post and board 

 fence in front, and a rail fence for the sides and rear, the material 

 for all of which was borrowed for the occasion. Pens for sheep 

 and swine were made on the inside of the board fence, by posts 

 and boards. 



I observed, however an improvement on this at the Layfayette 

 county fair : it consisted of common sixteen feet studding piled 

 in log-house fashion, with transverse layers crossing in the 

 centre, so as to make pens eight feet square. This arrangement, 

 if aided by a portable lever (such as is used for supporting an 

 axle tree when the wheel is to be removed) for the purpose of 

 liftmg the crib, to put an animal in the pen, would seem to be 

 very convcLient. 



Posts were set for cattle and horses to be tied to, and a levy 

 was made upon the neighboring farmers for forage. 



Temporary pens of lath were constructed for poultry, and for 

 entrance facilities a large gate was borrowed. 



In the large hall, a plentiful supply of ropes strung around 

 the room over the window tops were found convenient for 

 hanging bed quilts, embroidery, and various other articles. 



In the entry department three persons were employed. One 

 to make the entry in the general entry book, one to make a cor- 

 responding entry in the class book, and the third to receive the 

 money, register the name in the membership book, and fill a 

 card with the name and residence of the exhibitor, the number of 

 the class, and the number of th>i entry. 

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