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THE LANCASTER FARMER. 



[July, 



OUR NATIONAL CENTENNIAL. 



The New Agricultural Building. 



In the February number of Tiik Fatsmeu 

 we i)ublislietl an illustratiDn of the ARricultii- 

 ral^buiUling us then designed to be erected in 

 Fairinount Tark in eonneetion witli the other 

 Centennial l)uildinj;». — 

 Tlie plan of that struc- 

 ture havin<: evoked a 

 fjreatdeal of unfavorable 

 critieisni, as l*ing un- 

 gainly in apiK-arance and 

 uiisuited in some respects 

 to exhiliit the great in- 

 dustry in whose interests 

 it was i>ro.jeeted, the ar- 

 chitects were instnicted 

 to remodel the design. 

 Tliis tliey have done, and 

 on tills page we present 

 the Agricultural build- 

 ing as it will stand in 

 Fairniount Park, and for 

 which the gromid was 

 broken on tlie fifth of this 

 mouth, with im|)osing 

 ceremonies. t)n the op- 

 posite page we also ])re- 

 senl a view of the ground 

 plan of the building, 

 showing the arrange- 

 ments of the various sec- 

 tions devoted to the dis- 

 play of agricultural i)ro- 

 tlucts. A comparison of 

 this with the engraving 

 in the February number 

 will si low that the new 

 design is a great im- 

 ]>roveinent over the orig- 

 inal. It will cover over 

 ten acres, and will be 

 constructed of wood and 

 glass. It will stand on 

 tlie north of the Horticul- 

 tural building, and on 

 the eastern side of Bel- 

 mont avenue. In its 

 immediate vicinity will 

 be the stock yards for the 

 exhibition of horses, cat- 

 tle, sheep, .swiue, poul- 

 try, &c. 



In the course of a visit 

 to the Centennial head- 

 quarters in I'hiladelphia 

 the other day, we found 

 the. oliicers were Very 

 much encouraged with 

 the now assured success 

 of this great enterprise. 

 We bespeak for them the 

 hearty co-o])eration of 

 the farmers of Lancaster 

 comity. It is an evi-iit 

 in which the honor of our 

 great nation is bound u|), 

 and it is moreover an 

 event which can occur 

 but once in the history of 

 a nation. No one, how- 

 ever young, living at this 

 our lir.st centennial, can 

 hoiie to live to .see the 

 second; and every one 

 should therefore take an 

 honest pride in making 

 it a success worthy of 

 the gri'atest and Irecst 

 nation niion which the 

 benignant smiles of heav- 

 en rest. 



In the May issue of 

 The Fakjier we stat- 

 ed that the Centennial 

 Board liad placed the interests of the great 

 exposition for Lancaster county in the hands 

 of a local auxiliary board, consisting of Maj. 

 R. W. Snenk (Chairman), Hon. .J. B. Livings- 

 ton, Hon. D. W. Patterson, W. L. Peiper, 

 Amos S. Henderson, J. M. W. Geist, S. II. 

 Reynolds, F. Shroder, S. S. Spencer, B. F. 



Eshleman, Wm. Aug. Atlee. II. M. North, R. 

 A. Baer, .T. C. Muhlenberg, Jno. A. Iliestand, 

 Maj. A. C. Reinoehl, Ellwood Greist. W. U. 

 Hensel, Frank P. Griffiths, and J. K. Barr 

 (Secretary). 



Our Share of the Expenses. 

 At a recent meeting of this committee, the 



lation being liased on the assessments as re- 

 turned to the County Commissioners' office : 



Adamstown borouph $ lOfl 



Bart township ~. :in() 



Brecknock township ."00 



Carnarvon township .... a .5.50 



Cocalic'O East .500 



Cotallco Wi'st (5.50 



Colerain twp 4.50 



Columbia bor I,(i00 



Concstofja twp BOO 



Conoy twp .500 



Clay twp .500 



Dom-<ral ■past l,-!00 



Doni'Kal West 4.50 



Driimorc twp 000 



Fphrata twp 1,000 



Earl twp 1,100 



Earl East 800 



Karl West 000 



Elizalicth twp 400 



Elizabcthtown bor 1.50 



Eden twp 2.50 



Kulfon twp 400 



Heniplield East 1,300 



lleniplield West l.-OO 



Eami)eter East 1,100 



Lampeter West 900 



Laneaster twp 4.50 



Lancaster city G,R.50 



Leaeoek twp 8.50 



Leaeock Upix-r 000 



Little Britain twp 400 



•Martie twp IWO 



.Manor twp 1,000 



Mount .Joy bor 200 



Mount Joy twp 7.50 



.Marietta "bor 250 



.Manlieim bor 200 



.Manheim twp 1,:!00 



Paradise twp 700 



Penntwp 800 



Pcqueatwp ..." 600 



Providence twp 400 



Kaplio twp 1,4.50 



■Salisbury twp 1,400 



.Sadsbury twp 400 



.Strasliurg twp 800 



Strasburi^bor 300 



Warwick twp 1,100 



VV'ashiugton bor 100 



Secretary was instructed by resolution to pre- 

 pare a table showing the aniouiits that should 

 lie sub.serilied in each district of the county to 

 make uj) the !?40,(iOO assessed on Lancaster 

 comity by the Centennial Commission. ' The 

 following is the result, as reported to Major 

 Shenk, chairman of the committee, the calcu- 



Total 440,000 



It is understood that 

 local committees will be 

 appointed in the several 

 districts to receive sub- 

 scriptions towai\ls this 

 fund, and we hope their 

 efforts will l)e met in a 

 spirit of liberality com- 

 mensurate with the abil- 

 it}' of our great county. 



Horned Cattle at the In- 

 ternational Exhibition. 



The Centennial Com- 

 mission i>roiioses to adopt 

 a. scale to regulate the 

 respective numbers of 

 each breed of neat horned 

 cattle to be entered for 

 competition. 



It is assumed that sev- 

 en hundred (7t)U) head 

 will cover all desirable 

 entries; and upon that 

 basis will be calculated 

 the number of stalls 

 which will be apportion- 

 ed each bleed. The .scale 

 divides the aggregate 

 number into ten p;irts, 

 and of these, four-tenths 

 are assigned to Short 

 Horns, two-tenths to 

 t'liaiiiifl Lslands, one- 

 tenth to .I>evous, one- 

 tenth to Holsteins, one- 

 tenth to Ayrshires, and 

 one-tenth to animals of 

 other pure breeds. 

 The exhibition in each 

 breed will comprehend animals of various 

 ages, as well as of both sexes. Draft and fat 

 cattle will be admitted irrespective of breed. 

 The exhibition of horned cattle will open Sep- 

 tember -iOth, 187t), and continue fifteen days. 

 It is desirable that all persons who contem- 

 plate exhibiting will make application for stalls 



