THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
Socutics, tic. 
THE PLEASURES OF SUCCESS. 
W hat visions of round, fat cattle, sheep and 
swine; of juicy steaks, chops and tenderloin, 
are suggested by the mere name, fat stock 
show! What care and study of breed and 
dietary have contributed to produce the masses 
of flesh and fat there exhibited for the admir¬ 
ation of the multitude! What anxiety among 
the exhibitors in the various classes as to the 
awards of the judges, which are to decide the 
results, so far ns honors are concerned, of 
months of attention and petting bestowed on 
their favorites! Public recognition of success 
always affords pleasure, and pardouable in¬ 
deed is t he gratification felt by the owner of a 
tine beast on seeing it decorated with the first- 
prize badge—a public acknowledgment of the 
good judgment which has selected the right 
animal for competition, and of the skill in 
caring for and feeding it, which has won for 
sheep pens greatly outnumbered all others; 
though there were a few of the coarser breeds. 
Among the hogs, the Poland Chinas were in 
greater proportion here than at the Ohio 
State Fair at Columbus; but eveu here they 
were not iu proportion to their numbers and 
importance in the State at large. There were 
a few fine animals of this breed as well as of 
Chester-Whites, 
The show of machinery, as it has been 
everywhere this season, was immense; acres 
were covered with implements, many of 
which were in motion, and they were closely 
studied by the thousands of intelligent, farm¬ 
ers. We cannot take the time and space even 
to mention the various machines and imple¬ 
ments represented, aud only noticed three 
thiugs particularly new: One was a water- 
drawing arrangement constructed on the end¬ 
less chain principle, with a lot of small gal¬ 
vanized buckets linked together, so that in 
descending into the water each went down 
full of air, which was discharged into the 
water and thns aerated and kept it pure. 
carp, we were informed, were taken from the 
pond located on the Fair grounds. They looked 
well, and were remarkably active; still, we 
were told by a person who had eaten some, 
that they were quite poor as a food fish. 
The main building, comprising four halls, 
was devoted to the exhibition of dowel's and 
ornamental plauts, fruits, honey, and apiary 
display, canned and preserved meats, vege¬ 
tables, farm products, dairy products, etc.. 
The largest part, however, was used by Toledo 
manufacturers and tradesmen as an advertis 
ing display. In one end of one section was a 
cordage machine iu full operation, and by its 
side a manufactory of tin cans and boxes of 
various styles. The fruit show was very ordi¬ 
nary, there being only about 2011 plates of 
apples; 40 of pears: no plums, peaches, or 
quinces, and not more than a dozen varieties 
of grapes; and half the quantity was the Ni¬ 
agara white grape, which, we notice, is now 
offered for sale without restrictions. The 
honey display was very tine in quantity and 
quality and it was also very nicely arranged 
everything that would not make first-class 
celery, aud then wraps one of the pieces of 
tiu about the plant, and over this he slips a 
three-inch round tile 12 inches long; he then 
draws the tin out, leaving the celery compact 
and straight inside the tiles. He says it will 
bleach finely in two weeks iti hot weather, aud 
as the weather gets colder it takes louger—up 
to about four weeks. Knowing these facts, 
and knowing about how his trade will run, he 
manages to have a full supply of fine celery 
for his customers from the first of August till 
Winter, and by using the tiles many times 
over, he finds it a very ecouomical way. He 
says the labor of applying and removing the 
soil commonly used in bleaching celery, costs 
about as much as the tiles, and then, with care, 
they will last for years. 
The exhibition of farm produce was notliiug 
—half a dozen samples of wheat, half as many 
of oats, and a score of corn ears, about covered 
the show. 
In the dairy show there were only (V) or 70 
cheeses and as many samples of butter. The 
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THE PLEASURES OF SUCCESS. (Re-engraved from The London News.) Fig. 376. 
it its honorable pre-eminence. Nor is the satis¬ 
faction confined exclusively to the owner; all 
the family aud friends share in it; some of 
them—especially the female portion—much 
more demonstratively than the owner, whose 
proud gratification is too sincere for effusive 
expression. In the accompanying cut (Fig. 
3dT), the country magnate views, with pride, 
the Short-born steer which he has sent up to 
the fat stock show in Loudon, just before 
Christmas, and to which has been awarded 
the first prize in his class, of the finest breed 
of cattle in the world. 
THE TRI-STATE FAIR. 
[RURAL EDITORIAL REPORT.] 
The Tri-State Fair held at Toledo during 
the week, from the 8th to 13th of September, 
called together a large crowd of people, and 
must have been a success financially, aud if 
ever a crowd was to be pitied, it was that 
which sweltered aud sweated on the grounds 
during Wednesday, Sept, 10th, with the ther¬ 
mometer at 64°, The show of horses and cat¬ 
tle was remarkable neither for numbers nor 
quality of stock. Percherons seemed to lead 
among horses, and Holsteins among the cat¬ 
tle. The wrinkly, greasy Merinos in the 
Another was a little arrangement on wheels, 
with which, by means of a lever, with a 
ratchet and pawl, a man or boy* could easily 
take an ordinary wagon-box from the wagon 
and place it on a rack or arms made to receive 
it, while the wagon might be wanted for 
other purposes, aud by which the box could 
be as easily replaced when desired. The other 
was a now arm for holding a plow jointer. 
The arm being made crooked, passes out over 
the mold-board side of the plow, catches and 
carries all weeds and grasses into the furrow, 
ready to be covered by the soil. It also ad¬ 
mits of the easiest and most minute changing 
of the jointer to any point desired. 
Our advertisers, we noticed, were nearly all 
there, and we could not divest ourselves of the 
impression that they were the most thoroughly 
wide-awake and enterprising men on the 
ground, and, of course, our readers cannot do 
better than consult such people when they 
wish to purchase anything in their lines. 
A very beautiful and instructive exhibit 
was a huge aquarium in front of the main 
building, so made of glass that its contents 
could be easily seen, and in which were all 
kinds of the edible fish of Ohio, including even 
a fine show of carp of all ages from a few 
months to two years old, showing their re¬ 
markable development and growth. These 
so as to make a grand display, being placed on 
three sides of a pyramid in one end of a seg¬ 
ment of the hall. It was shown as comb honey 
in cards, in cases and in boxes; also in bottles, 
jars, pails, tumblers and cans os extracted, 
and of all shades and flavors, so that one must 
be exceedingly fastidious who could not select 
that which was to his liking. 
The vegetable display was immense—far 
surpassing anything that wo ever saw. There 
were collections of garden vegetables of 200 
or over entries each, by five different profes¬ 
sional gardeners; the liberal premiums offered 
had stimulated the sharpest competition, aud 
one whole section of this large buildiug was 
filled, from floor to ceiling, witli loads and loads 
of every conceivable thing in the vegetable 
line. Aside from this, there was a large dis¬ 
play by amateurs. The display was not only 
grand as a whole, but every specimen was per¬ 
fect. The finest celery we ever saw, and the 
best bleached for this season of the year, was 
shown by James Wright, of East Toledo, aud 
this is the method he uses to blanch without 
rusting it:—He merely earths a little, to keep 
the stalks upright until sufficiently grown; he 
then has some strips of the thinnest, lightest 
tin, about 14 inches wide, and in the after- 
part of the day, when the celery is perfectly 
dry, hej firsts suckers the . plants, removing 
very low premiums offered and thedrough*- 
were the reasons assigned for the meagerneas 
of the display. Fine Arts Hall was finely 
filled, and held a well arranged exhibit, com¬ 
prising maoycrcditnblo works of art in paint¬ 
ing, crayon work, needle-work, photography, 
etc., by homo talent. 
The Tri-State Fair will stand preeminent 
this year for its unsurpassed display of vege¬ 
tables, and for the extreme “nastiness” of the 
excrescences permitted, for money, to debauch 
youthful visitors. On each side of the Fine 
Arts Hall was an exhibition of half nude, 
brazen faced females and other monstrosities, 
with their blatant criers and downs trying to 
induce the young and the unwary to spend 
their money to see their indecent humbug 
affairs; no girl or boy could enter the hall 
at either door without hearing some inde¬ 
cent call or remark from these show-cri¬ 
ers. Close by the main walk were others 
as bad; and miserable representations of 
Punch-and-Judy shows called the rabble 
and blocked the walks. The most available 
and desirable space in frontof the main build¬ 
ing was filled with the venders of peanuts, 
pop-corn, bogus jewelry.ami various gambling 
establishments, while the machinery and im¬ 
plement exhibitors, in' many instances, were 
forced .into, rem ote and inaccessible ~ places. 
