OCT 9 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
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ising; a good grower. Crimson Beauty was 
named by Mr. Myer with favor. Mr. Green 
found it to winter kill badly and feared it 
would not be hardy. Hhaffer’s Colossal was 
well spoken of. Mr. Lyon thought the Colossal 
should bo dropped. Mr. Haul says it is one of 
the best of that class; uot. fit for market how¬ 
ever. I)r. Hope sells them very readily, and 
it was considered very valuable generally; a 
little sour, but excellent with pleuty of sugar, 
superior for canning; very productive. Su¬ 
perb. Lovett considers valuable for amateurs, 
large, of good quality, not so good for mar¬ 
ket; crumbles badly. New Rochelle was 
thought to be similar to Shaffer. Dr. Hexa- 
mer says it is the same thing—only not as large. 
BLACKBERRIES 
were next discussed. Snyder Mr. Hale con¬ 
siders the best variety he has. All reports 
were favorable. Of Taylor’s Prolific, Mr. 
Parry said its tearing habits were immense, 
and the term “prolific” belongs to it if to any 
berry. It is of medium size, larger than 
Snyder. Wacbuset* - needs high culture; suc¬ 
ceeds well in Mass; free from rust; a strong 
grower. W ilson’s Early is rather tender, but 
largely growu. Mr. Hatterthwaite says it is 
the only one of value in Ids section of Pa Mr. 
Haul, of Washiugtou, thinks it equally good 
on Ids grounds. Mr. Pierce was unsuccessful 
with it in Ohio. Dr. Hexamer thought it the 
most valuable sort in N. Y. Mr. Lovett says it 
Ls valuable in N. J —ten of this kind arc grown 
to one of all others Mr. Parry says it has pro¬ 
duced more berries and dollars than any other 
kind. “ I have known tlioiu to sell at 50c. per 
quart by the wagon-load, and at $1 at retail 
There is a gentleman in this room now who 
has realized over $22,000 from the sale of this 
fruit.” The remarks of Mr. Parry were de¬ 
livered in a loud, distinct voice; he was clearly 
heard above all the street noises outside, audit 
was such a pleasant relief to hear w hat a mem¬ 
ber said that he was loudly applauded. Home 
member wanted to drop Wilsou from the 
list. Mr. Campbell could not grow it. in 
Ohio; but Mr. Meehan and many' others pro¬ 
tested strongly, and it was left on. Early 
Harvest was killed by the Winter in Mich. A 
remedy for the orange rust was asked for. Mr. 
Earle thought that, with the exception of 
Kittatmny, the disease could be taken care of 
by cutting out afflicted parts as fast as it ap¬ 
peared. Much discussion ensued, but uo one 
seemed to have any remedy' for the rust. 
H. HENDRICKS. 
MICHIGAN S T ATE FAIR. 
The thirty-fifth annual lair of the Michi¬ 
gan Htate Agricultural Society and the 
fourteenth annual fair of the Michigan Htate 
Horticultural Society were jointly held at De¬ 
troit, Sept. 17 to ill. There were over 4,2*20 
entries and the show was the largest over held 
in this Htate. The weather on Monday and 
Tuesday was fine and warm, but it commenced 
to raiu ou Wednesday, and the threatening 
aspect of the sky ou Thursday kept many 
from attending, but, in spite of these draw¬ 
backs, the attendance was greater than at 
last year’s fair at Jackson, there being fully 
30,000 people ou the grounds uu Wednesday 
and as many on Thursday. The receipts ran 
up over $32,000, for the week. Although 
“Section li” of the rules of this society pro¬ 
hibits the sale of liquors ou the grounds, still 
they were openly sold. Privileges to peddle 
rum are let out to any one able and willing to 
pay them four dollars per foot oil the maiu 
street of the fair. These privileges allow the 
buyer to sell food and drink. This permis¬ 
sion is abused, and at nearly every booth 
(nud there must be 40 or 50 of them) boer 
and liquors were openly sold. Why not sell 
one privilege for a regular eating stand; an¬ 
other for an oyster-room, and so on* Then 
instead of the rough aud noisy street that is 
now a disgrace to the nmuagemeut, there 
would Ik' nice, neat eating houses where a 
visitor could once in a while get something 
fit to eat. Other objectionable features are 
the cheap, cutch-peuny show s and t.he organ- 
grinders as well as the blind and halt bog- 
gai*s tbat are allowed ou the ground in great 
numbers. 
POMOLOGICAL AND FLORAL HALL. —On 
entering this ball, the 2,500 plates of fruit 
that meet the view would almost lead oue to 
believe that this is oue of Michigan’s best 
years for fruit; but a closer inspection shows 
scarcely a perfect sjiecimeu—especially of 
apples or pears—aud that Michigan, like her 
neighbors, is suffering from the bad effects of 
au uupropitious season. It has for many years 
been a praiseworthy rule of the Htate Horti¬ 
cultural Society, that no imperfect specimen 
of fruit should be allowed to competeTor n pre¬ 
mium; but this year has been so except ionally 
unfavorable that the Officers laid to decide 
whether to have uo fruit show at all, or oue 
uot absolutely perfect; and very wisely chose 
tin? latter course, The largest shqw kj mui^> bv 
the Grand River Valley Society, aud next in 
importance is that from Oceana County. A 
very fine show is made by Mason County, but 
unfortunately it was so delayed by the rail¬ 
road tbat it was not got into position in time 
co compete. The largest display consists, of 
course, of apples; next come pears; then 
peaches, plums and grapes. There is uo State 
that makes so large a show of plums as this,and 
they nearly all come from the region border 
ing on Lake Michigan, north of Grand Haven. 
There are some 80 varieties from this port, 
aud ail are One specimens, aud a credit to the 
growers. There are many orchards of plums 
iu this region aud uuifurmly they are produc¬ 
tive and arc found very profitable. Grapes 
are shown quite plentifully; but they are very 
green—uot a sample of any kind from any part 
of the Htate is in eating condition. I met here 
our old friend, Mr. Woodward, of Lockport, 
N. Y., with beautiful samples of the Niagara 
Grape, though these too, were uot yet ripe. 
He also shows some fine white wine from 
Niagara Grapes, wholly without sugar or other 
mixture, which lor its age is considered very 
superior. I would mention here in parenthesis 
thatjour friend is buying some six hundred half- 
blood Shropshire lambs for use this Winter in 
his “ manure factory;” for, although his com 
crop is wholly killed, he says he must have 
manure. The show of flowers aud ornameuta] 
plants, though fair, is much below the Jackson 
exhibit of last year. I uot iced that our enter¬ 
prising friends, the Vicks of Rochester, N. Y.‘ 
are not here with their flowers aud that ex¬ 
plains the whole matter. The Michigan Hor¬ 
ticultural Society is a model in its way, and is 
entitled to the thanks of pomologists every. 
where for the high standard it has set up for 
the fruit exhibits, aud it has done much to 
foster and develop the fruit interests of the 
State, and in this line no one does more than 
our friend Chas. W. Garfield, the energetic 
Secretary of the Society. When “Charley” 
and the boys put their shoulders to the wheel, 
there is going to be a good show of fruit, 
whether the year be good or bad. 
Dairy Hall was poorly filled. There were 
122 entries, but the exhibit was uot as good as 
was to be expected iu this Htate. The dairy 
implement men were in force, led by friend 
Curtis from Wisconsin. 
Tbe Vegetable and Garden show in this 
hail was very light, owing, it was said, to the 
poor and late season, but it seems likely that 
the poor display was iu a great measure due vo 
the fact that farmers in this Htate do uot take 
the interest that they should in bringing the ir 
farm and garden produce to the fairs and ex¬ 
changing there views and experiences with 
their neighbors. The premiums given by this 
society are liberal, and should bring out better 
and larger exhibits. 
The Cattle Show was the largest ever 
held in this State, embracing 7.58 entries. As 
usual, the Short-horns led with 18 fine herds 
and 198 entries, about evenly divided between 
the milkiug and beef families. Next followed 
the Holsteius and Dutch-Friesians, including 
eight herds and 112 entries. The existence of 
two herd book* for these two strains of what 
Ls in reality the same breed,causes considerable 
trouble to buyers and thegeueral public inter¬ 
ested i i dairy* cattle, and it would be a good 
thing if the differences between the two socie¬ 
ties could bo healed; for then all these cattle 
might be registered in oue herd book. Next 
came the Jerseys, embracing six herds aud 95 
entries, showing the increase of interest that 
is being lakeu in this breed iu the State. 
Then came the Herefords,amounting to about 
80 entries of remarkably fine animals. They 
are competing very closely with beef Short¬ 
horns in this Htate. Then came the Devons, 
five herds and .53 entries. Uf Foiled Aber¬ 
deen-Angus and Galloways there were two 
herds and 13 entries, while of Ayershires there 
was only oue herd—the flue oue belonging to 
tne State Agricultural College. Tuore was a 
fine show of fat cattle of which there were 10 
entries. Ten yoke of working oxen were also 
shown, aud what is now seldom seen at Htate 
Fail’s, a flue lot of 74 grade cattle. 
The Horse Show was also very large, 
there being over 400 entries. A large number 
of fine Pereherous, Clydesdales aud other 
draft stallions were ou exhibition, aud along 
with the Thoroughbreds enhanced the fine dis¬ 
play in the cavalcade. The breeders’ purses, 
si* called, give the lovers of trotting a chance 
to see a horse trot, but then as breeding points 
are the chief merits here and speed does uot 
win the premium, the contest cannot be called 
a jockey trot. 
The Hheep Show was very large, being 
about evenly divided between the long wools 
aud line wools. 
The Swines Hiiow was uot as large as 
usual, but some very flue animals were ex¬ 
hibited. 
The various departments—Machinery Hall, 
Manufacturers’ Hall aud the ladies’ depart- 
meubj—were well tilJ, m\ with tine exhibit,® 
were crowded, especially during the rain, as 
they were about the only large places on the 
grounds where the great crowds could find 
shelter. 
The Show of Agricultural Machine¬ 
ry was simply immense, and most of the 
Western and Eastern States were represented, 
as there is a keen competition for the trade of 
this great Htate. Here were to be seen plows 
of all kinds and styles adapted to all sorts of 
soils, from Massachusetts, New York, Ohio, 
Michigan, Indiana, lll'nois and Wisconsin. 
Mowers, reapers and self-binding harvesters, 
showing all the different improvements that 
have been made up to the present time, were 
on exhibition from quite a number of States. 
A new one that attracted considerable atten¬ 
tion was tbe platform binder attached to the 
Perry Royce Reaper. This has just been 
brought out, and I hope another year’s test 
will prove it a success, as it is a machine just 
suited to the average farmer. There are 
few branches of manufacturing industry in 
which there is such a b’vely competition as 
there is between the makers of grain drills 
and cultivators, so that all the principal im¬ 
plements of these kinds were on exhibition, 
and uo farmer could leave the grounds with¬ 
out being suited. Thrashing machines, porta¬ 
ble engines, clover hullers and all classes of 
large machinery were shown in full operation, 
producing plenty of noise and smoke, and af¬ 
fording instruction to large crowds of visitors 
until the rain commenced; then they were de¬ 
serted for the more fortunate exhibits which 
were iu tents or in the few wooden 
buildings ou the grounds. The large show of 
small farm feed mills in operation is a new 
feature at fairs. Twenty are exhibited now 
where only one used to be showu. The intro¬ 
duction of steam power on tbe farm and the 
geared and reciprocating power connected 
with the wind-mill, and also the new and 
cheap horse-powers are all placing the farmer 
in a position where he can do his own feed 
grinding, corn shelling, etc., at comparatively 
small cost, and save many a toll. The interest 
taken in all parts of the display of unproved 
agricultural machinery shows that the farmers 
of this Htate fully appreciate this fact. The 
managers of the fair should put up better 
buildings for the exhibitors, for in view of the 
standing of Michigan in tbe list of States and 
of the largo amount of money this society has 
taken iu because the exhibitors have made 
flue, large displays such as always draw 
crowds, the buildings are a disgrace. 
The rule in reference to exhibitors’ tick¬ 
ets, compelling them to apply each 
night to the superintendents of their re¬ 
spective departments for tickets to admit them 
the next day, is simply a miisance. »Vhy not 
follow the plan of the New York State Agri¬ 
cultural Society—give each exhibitor, w heu he 
first comes on the ground, the number of tick¬ 
ets (good for the week] he actually requires; 
have the name of each employe and as well as 
that of the employer on each of these tickets. 
Let them all enter at one gate where trained 
gate-meu can remember the face of each one, 
aud thou in ease of fraud take up the ticket, 
is this not better tnan putting every exhibitor 
in the position of a beggar for his tickets 
every night of the fair* 
Thanks to the Detroit Transfer Company, 
another source of iueonvenieneo was removed 
at this fair. This company takes the place of 
the Bureau of Transportation at the New 
York Htate Fair, aud receives aud delivei*s 
right ou the grounds, at moderate charges, all 
goods marked “ Care of the Htate Fair,” 
thus saving exhibitors much money aud 
trouble. w. H. k. 
FAIR NOTES. 
A story that the cattle in Michigan were 
affected by some epizootie.disease kept away a 
number of herds from other States. 
Our Canadian friends were well represented 
ou the grounds, both as visitors aud exhibitors, 
many tine heads of cattle and sheep from across 
the river being exhibited. 
Prof. Cook, T. T. Lyon, Secretary Garfield 
aud many others want tbe Rural Editor-in- 
chief to come out and see their fair another 
year. 
Why uot have the State Fair permanently 
located at Detroit, and put up handsome build¬ 
ings? In this case the grounds should be en¬ 
larged. It seems easy to draw a good crowd. 
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