THE LANCASTER FARMER. 



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OUR NATIONAL CENTENNIAL. 

 THE AGRICULTUU AL DEl'A RTMENT. 



In our .lammiy issue we took ocrasion to 

 say tliat " wc cannot too often admonish tlio 

 farmers of Lancaster county to l)usy tliem- 

 selve.s in ' working up ' a physical and intel- 

 lectual representation of the resources of the 



there, as the faithful and aiipropriate advo- 

 cate and exponent of those interests." And 

 we now add, with all the emphasis of the 

 accompanying lieautiful illustration, that one 

 of the most impressive sections of the Cen- 

 tennial Exi)Osilion will certainly be the Aijri- 

 cullural liiiihliinj. This fine structure, havim? 

 in its immediate vicinity a stock 3'ard, with 



' Garden spot of the Keystone State ' in the 

 approaching Centennial, which is scarcely 

 a year and a half in the future. We want to 

 see the farminjr interests of our great county 

 honorably standing by the side of the greatest 

 in the land. We want to sec our journal 



divisions for horses, cattle, sheep and swine, 

 and poultiy houses, will be located north of 

 the Con.^'fvatory and on the east side of 

 Belmont Avenue. The ground plan of this 

 department, covering an area of about ten 

 acres, is a parallelogram of 540 by 820 feet ; 



constnactcd chiefly of wood and glass, it will 

 consist of a long nave crossed by three tran- 

 septs, both nave and transepts Ijeing con- 

 stituted (if truss arches of a (Jothic siyie. 

 This is intended for the recejition of every 

 kind of agricultural and dairy iniplemi-nia 

 and utensils, except, of course, such as are 

 properly included in the machinery depart- 

 ment. iSuch an ex- 

 hibition, aided as 

 it will be by tho 

 fraternal feeling 

 which now exists 

 among the farming 

 j)rofession, cannot 

 fail to inspire a 

 lively interest in the 

 present, and be pro- 

 ductive of substan- 

 tial benefit in the 

 future. There will 

 also be arranged in 

 this section speci- 

 mens of grain, and 

 products of the .soil 

 generally, which, 

 ctmsidcring the 

 wide area and ca- 

 pabilities of the 

 country, should 

 insure a national 

 display of vast im- 

 portance, and |)la<:e 

 the Agricultural 

 interests of • this- 

 country in a posi- 

 tion to compare fa- 

 vorably with other 

 developmentsofthe 

 national pntgi'css 

 during the past cen- 

 tury. TheFarming 

 fraternity should 

 certainly take a 

 lively, earnest, and 

 liberal interest in 

 making this de- 

 partment in partic- 

 ular, and the Cen- 

 tennial Exposition 

 in general, an un- 

 doubted and proud 

 success. 



WeA-(imc that the 

 farmers of Lancas- 

 ter county, their 

 wives, sous and 

 daughters, are sec- 

 ond to none in the 

 Union, when they 

 choose to let their 

 presence be seen 

 and felt; and there- 

 fore, we would 

 admonish them 

 against that indif- 

 ference or (imidity 

 which may prevail 

 on account of the 

 imposing character 

 of the approaching 

 £.cp'iii>iiin}. A 1 1 

 those architectural 

 conceptions for the 

 accommodation of 

 a still more magnfi- 

 ccnt display of the 

 results of hiunan 

 industry— all llio.se 

 gigantic appoint- 

 ments and their 

 multitudinous de- 

 tails—all the de- 

 signs and plans 

 necessary in carry- 

 ing out the "com- 

 ing event " into 

 practical effect, arebut the nut births of human 

 thought — human ingenuity and human energy; 

 and, whether a farmer or a king, " a man's a 

 man for 'a that." Fundimentally, tbeCreator 

 has made all nun alike, all possess the same 

 organic principles — the same mental elements; 



