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THE ILIL.I:N^0IS FA.R]Nd:ER. 



Best coarse shirt, 2 dol, awarded to mrs L Chnpin, Bethel, 

 Morgan county. 



Best he"»rth rug, 2 dol, awarded to miss Eveline Lavrson, 

 Jackifonvlllc, Morpan county. 



Best taste and sliiit in slicll worlc, 2 do], awarded to miss 

 Kate Stewart, Jacksonville, Morpran county. 



Best specimens of flowers in hair, 2 dol, awarded to Helen 

 G Barber, .Meredosia, Slorpm county. 



Best specimen wax fruit, ddol, awarded to Anna Chambers, 

 Jacksonville, Morpan cotuify. 



Best brashes and fancy work, 2 dol, awarded to mrs Dr 

 Morrison, Arcadia, Morgan county. 



Aicfirdinff cominitffs J S Boardman, chairman, mrs E 

 n Taylor; mrs N Ilawkes; mrs K Judah; mlsa Bristow; C V 

 Baldwin. 



CLASS L. — NATURAL HISTORY. 

 Lot !>i— Botany. 



Best collection Illustratln!? the Botany of Illinois 20 dols ; 

 awarded to M. S. Bel)b, Salem Marion county. 



2d best — 10 dols; awarded to A. 8. Rhodes, Jacksonville 

 Morgan county. 



Lot 60. 



Best collection illustratins; the Zoology of Illinois .'iOdoU; 

 awarded to U. H. Holilor, Itloomington McLean coimty. 



2d best — 25 dols; awarded to J. W. Powell, Wheaton Du- 

 Page county. 



Best collection of Insects 25 dols ; awarded to B. D. Walsh, 

 Rock Island, Rock Island cmmty. 



2d best— 10 dols ; awarded to" T. A. Worthen, Springflcld 

 Sangamon county. 



Airarding committee — J. A. Stevens, Julian E. Bryant, 

 Isaac J. Marsh. 



Lot BO — Geology. 



Best collection illustrating the Geology of Illinois 50 dols ; 

 awarded to A. II. AVorthen, SpiingGeld Sangamon county. 



2d best — 25 dols ; awarded to 0. I). 'Wilber, Bloomington 

 McLean county. 



Best collection of useful Minerals 20 dols; awarded to 0. 

 D. AVilber, Bloomington McLean county. 



2d be.st — 10 dols; awarded to 0. D. Wilber, Bloomington 

 McLean county. 



Avnvdlng committee — Milton S. Ellsworth, Jas. G. Mc- 

 Oreery, D. S. Morse, S. J. Wallace, G. W. Scripps. 



I^t Gl — C7iemicalx, etc. 

 Best blacking — 1 dol; awarded to V. Binner, Quincy Adams 

 county 



Lot62—6?(i>t», Stone Wore, lirickx and Tt'fes. 

 Best specimen ground glass — 2 dols; awarded to Wood & 

 Iliilman, SpriniJlii'ld Sangamon county. 



Best Tiles — 2 dols; awarded to D. V. Kinney; Rock Island 

 Rock Island county. 



LotGS — Wood and Stone. 

 Best turned articles — 2 dols; awarded to S. Iloram, St. Lou- 

 Is, Mo. 



Airarding committee — J. A. Ptei)hcn3, chairman; J. AV. 

 Drury; II. A. Pierce; U. L. Dletch. 



CLASS M. 



lot CI — Ploirinff Jratch, 



First premium, 20 dol; awarded to William Claybaugh, 

 Jacksonville, using Deere & Co.'s moline plow. 



Second premium, ^.^ dol; awarded to Edward Grubb, Lib- 

 erty Adams county Illinois, using Quincy II. plow. 



Third premium, 10 dol; awarded to B. Cole, Jacksonville, 

 using Peoria plow. 



Fourth premium, 5 dol; awarded to S. II. Jlillcr, Peoria, 

 using Tobey & Anderson's old Prairie plow. 



Fifth premium— Transactions; awarded to Edward McDo- 

 nald, Bloomington, using B;inn & Kllsworth'splow. 



Plowing match for hoyn under IS years of age. 



Firit premium — 20 dols; awarded to Samuel Eells, Adams 

 Adams count}', using Battell & Boyd's Quincy B. Plow. 



Second premium — if) dol.s; awarded to Jolin Black, Jersey 

 Prairie, Coles county, u.-sing Diamond Carey plow. 



8<1 premium — Ul dols ; awarded to James L. Mahard Car- 

 ter Sangamon county Illinois, u.«ing Peru plow. 



4lh premium — 5 dols ; awarded to George Claybaugh, Jack- 

 sonville, using moline plow. 



Awarding com »i(7^c— Charles 11. Roscntiel, Jacob Bog. 

 ers, H. A. Conkey, W. L. Beebf, B. G. Roots, Ethan Allen. 

 Lot C5 — Spading JIatch. 



No trial. 



MTSCItLLASBOrS. 



The recommendations of the Awarding committees, refer- 

 ring to articles entered in tlie various classes as Mi.scKi.i..tNK- 

 OPS, will receive the attention of the Executive committee 

 during their regular meeting in .January IMll. At the same 

 meeting the awards will be wade on Field Crops, Essays and 

 Book-keeping, and the Reports of the committees on Farms, 

 Nurseries, Orchards, (iroves, Conu-jon Schools and Draining 

 will be received and acted ui>on. Checks for the cash pre- 

 miums awarded during the Fair, have either been delivered In 

 person or forwarded by mail to successful exhibiters IN AC- 



COROASCK WITH THE K.NTHIf:S Of AWARILS IN COMMITTEKS' 



BOOKS. The Books and Agricultural Periodicals awarded 

 will be «ent to the address of each person entitled to them, ou 

 application to rae at Sprinirfleld. 



JOHN P. REYNOLDS, Corresponding Secretary, 

 Illinois State Ajjrlcultural Society. 



Meeting of Delegates for the Elcellon of fll'ficers. 



Jacksonville, Sepl. 11, ISOO. 



At 2 r. M., the delegates from the County 

 Agricultural Societies was called to order by 

 the President of the Society, Lewis Ells- 

 worth, Esq., and Edward 11. Lcebe, from 

 Jo Daviess county, were appointed Secreta- 

 ries, j)ro tern. 



The meeting tlien proceeded to the elec- 

 tion of officers, when the following gentle- 



men having received a majority of all the 

 votes, were declared duly elected, to serve 

 for two years, from the second Monday in 

 January, ISGl. 



PRESIDENT. 



W. IL Van Epps, of Dixon, Lee county. 



VICE PRESIDENTS. 



Ist District — 0. B. Denio, Jo Daviess county. 



2d " A. J. Matteson, Whiteside county. 



8d " R. n. Holder, .McLean county. 



4th " R. 11. Whiting, Knox county. 



5th " J. W. Singleton, Adams county, 



tith " A. B. :\lcConnell, Sangamon county. 



7th " Wm. Kyle, Edgar county. 



8th " W. S. Wait, Bond county. 



9th " H. S. Ozburne, Perry county. 



Treasurer, — J. W. Bunn, of Sangamon 

 county. 



Kecordino Secretary. — John Cook, of 

 Sangamon county. 



Correspondix(j Secretary. — J. P. 

 Reynolds, of Marion county. 



Dr. H. C. Johns, Chairman of a commit- 

 tee to revise the Constitution, made a Keport 

 which, on motion of Mr. Bridges, was ac- 

 cepted. 



The meeting then proceeded to consider 

 the Picport, section by section, which were 

 adopted with a few unimportant alterations, 

 with the exception of the 5th and Gth sec- 

 tions, these were replaced by amendments, 

 and then the amended Report, as a whole, 

 was submitted to the meeting and unani- 

 mously adopted. 



[The Constitution is unavoidably crowded 



out of this number,] 



••* 



[From the Chicago Democrat.] 



F.viuBANKs' Sc.vi.ES. — A vcw .scalc for weigh- 

 ing stock before loading in oais, has lately bcon 

 j)ut up, wo notice, at the cattle yards of the 

 Pitt burg and Fort Wayne llailroad in ihiscit}', 

 with platform some thirty feet or more in 

 length, and of a width suflicient for weighing a 

 full car load at once. This must be a very con- 

 venient and economical arrangement where 

 liirgc quantities of stock, as here, are to be 

 weighed for shipping. 



The scale l)ears the name of " Fairbank.'?," 

 which has long been familiar wherever scales 

 arc used, and is alwa\'s the highest guaranty 

 for excellence. It seems to be so constructed in 

 all its parts as to combine the greatest possible 

 strength, accuracy and durability, ;:nd has a 

 shallow pit, as have various other niodilications 

 of Fairbanks' large scales, many of these requir- 

 ing only twelve iiu-hes of extreme depth, which 

 adapts them to Itoations where greater depth 

 would be an objectioiL s2;!jaf It 



kcr, "but garments with patches will wear tJirice 

 as long as with rents or holes." 



What would have Poor Richard or Benjamin 

 Franklin have said \^ Spaulding'' s Prcjwred Glue 

 had been in existence during their time? It is 

 certainly the greatest economizer ever introduced 

 to the public, and its remarkable tenacity makes 

 it a reliaVjle method of saving. If you have a 

 broken looking-glass, bedstead, table, chair, bas- 

 ket, moulding, or in fact any article of ornament 

 or ofu.se that glue would adhere to ut all, this new 

 preparation will rejoin the broken parts firmly, 

 forever. It is contained in neat little bottles, 

 free from smell, and always ready for immediate 

 use. Among all the thousands of families who 

 take the Pictorial, there is not a single one who 

 does not at this moment stand in need of a bot- 

 tle of Spaxlding^i Preitarcd Glue, 



scp2(j-d&w<li:far 



EDITOR'S TABLE. 



The Grove Ndbsrrt. — Who has not heard of the "Grove 

 Nursery," and the "Old Doctor?" We think there can be 

 few, at least, among the "old settlers," in this great North- 

 west of ours; and then there is Charley, the "Egyptiiin Nur- 

 eeryman," and "Our Bob," who is away up North, examining 

 the animal kingdom of his Hyperborean Majesty, and looking 

 into his hidden storehouse of inanimate Nature, rollicking 

 over his great fields of deepest snow, or watching the mid- 

 night sky, lighted up by his king ship, with fire-works of 

 frozen flame sent up from his Arctic regions. Well, Charley 

 and Bob played at marbles and made mud houses in the "old 

 garden of roses," where waved the summer folliage of the 

 hickories, and at whose base gushed out tiie limpid .sjiring at 

 which we otten slaked our thirst, when weary and thirsty from 

 nuipjiing out the new farms, compass in hand, that were to be 

 carved out of the great sea of prairie verdure, which was 

 uncropped by other than the wild game that lied at our ap- 

 proach, as farm after farm was majiped out for the new com- 

 ers who clustered around the groves. Well, that was over 

 twenty years agone, when we were younger than now, but at 

 that garden of floral beauty, set in the wild landscape, we 

 drank in the inspiration of the flowers, and took new lessons 

 in the beautiful, tliat have given us many, very many i>leas- 

 ant hours as we have since been passing down the silent river 

 of time. How many homes have been made all the brighter 

 for the floral gems that have gone out from "The Grove" will 

 only be footed up in the time to come. In that garden of 

 roses the useful was added to to the beautiful, and fruit and 

 llowers combined to tcuii>t the planter, and still the "Old 

 Doctor," with unflagging zeal, continues to minister to those 

 who would gather the draprry of llowers around their dwell- 

 ings, or fill their cellars with the orb like fruit, blushing be- 

 yond the painter's art, and imprinting the hues of health on 

 the cheek of beauty. 



From the Family Pictorial, New York, August, 1S60. 



The Aht <)!■• S.winc. — Ik-nj-imin Franklin, in 

 his writings, tells us that "Poor Richanf ' de- 

 eiared "au ounce of preventive was worth a 

 pound of cure," and the dear, good old man was 

 right, lie. Poor Richard, would insist upon 

 mending everything as soon as it was broken, 

 end thereby saved much trouble and loss from 

 enlargement of the injury. One day a witty wo- 

 man said to a venerable Quaker, noted for his 

 strenuous adherence to the i)rinciples of "Poor 

 Richard," 



"You arc always for mending and patching, , 

 and yet in spite of your doctrine, that "a stitch 

 ill lime .saves nine," Fll lay you somotliing pretty | 

 that a rent or a hole will wear (trice as long as a ' 

 patch." 



"Even so, my good dame," replied the Qua- 



Wuat Can br Made ok a Cocntt Fair? — Well we might 

 ask what cannot be made of it. Last year the United States 

 Fair was one great Lager Beer Saloon, in which cattle, horses, 

 sheep, swine, and other small thing*) came in to fill up the in- 

 tervaU of the sitting, like toasts at a convivial meeting, to ex- 

 tend the time when drunk .shall come. One way to make a 

 County Fair a nuisance Is to let In all the rattle-trap mon- 

 key-shows at twenty dollars a tent, sell the privilege of a 

 "dancing Door" for twenty-flve dollars, let out Beer Saloons 

 to all who want, at ten dollars each; suppress the names of the 

 exhibitors — thus driving away all exhibitors except those who 

 are alter the almighty dollar, ami have a faculty of soaping 

 the committee, naO ruxa. Wlien all these things are In work- 

 ing order, you have a bill of attructions at which verdant ado- 

 lescence will gape with wide-mouthed wonder, but from which 

 the modest and the refined shrink from with instinctive hor- 

 ror as of a pestilence. Drunkenness reigns; driving around 

 the ring Is with unsteady hands, and collision cannot well be 

 avoided; premiums go unjiaid, am! the respectable portion 

 of the comuninity are disguste<l. The show has been a fail- 

 ure, and can the sapient managers wonder at the want of 

 luck, and lay the failure to the political excitement, and dis- 

 taste for the farmer's holiday. Is this a fancy ])icture, the 

 day dream of the editor? Call it so if you please; it cannot 

 well be otherwise; and we too will call it a fiction; but let it 

 convey a moral to point out how dangerous it might be to 

 follow Its unpleasant paths. 



Dabrow's Colored Fiuit.s. — We ordered a Book of these 

 containing nearly a hundred specimens. It is now at hand, 

 and fullj' meets our expectations. The colorings are very 

 truthful and reflect no small credit on the artist. Fruit 

 growers and nurserymen would do well to supply themselves 

 witii these colored ])latea. Purchasers like to see a picture of 

 the fruits that they are to select from. Our eastern nursery- 

 men think them iudispcnsible in the canvass for orders, and 

 certainly the western nnrs ryinen will find them no less so. — 

 But few of our farmer.-i are acquainted with the n.imes of 

 fruits, and many of the new varieties they have never seen, 

 but with tbe.se trutblul pictures they can form a pretty accu- 

 rate o])inion as to how tliey will p'ease them. A book of 

 eighty 8i>ecimei)S will only cost $2", or twenty-five cents a 

 fruit, and you can select from a large list of apples, pears, 

 peaclies, plum.?, the small fruits, fhriibs and (lowers. Send 

 first for a catalogue, and select such as you wisli to make up 

 your order. Address E. Darrow & Bro., Rochester, N. Y. 



