Among the attractions of the week will be a
meeting of tho old settlers of tho state—a dele
gation of throe from each county—who have
made fanning their principal business for forty
years. Colonel D. P. Duncan, the
president of the fair association,
who inaugurated this novel feature, suggests
that tho fact may be developed in this gather
ing that all tho agricultural glitter of the so
called by-gone days was not all pure gold, and
that the farmers of tho curly days of this cen
tury had troubles, disappointments and fail
ures that those of the present day have never
dreamed of, and whioli will make them think,
after all, that their “lives are cast in pleasant
Colonel Duncan, in his call forth
meeting, says:
“There will be much food for valuable
thought suggested by the experience of the
members of such a meeting. Take a delegate
who has scored three-quarters of the present
century and his life will have contained a large
majority of the great inventions and improve
ments, not only in agriculture, but in all the
arts and sciences of our age. As an illustra
tion, when such a delegate was born Fulton’s
first steamboat was only five years old, and a
very undeveloped affair at that. It took at
that time three months, and sometimes six, to
cross the Atlantic, and now’ a week is being
considered a tiresome journey. AVlien this
delegate was 12 years old the ’ first iron plow
was made, and the farmers of that
their heads and said: ‘lt won’t do, too heavy:’
‘regular horse killers.’ Now an old time wood
en plow stock would boa genuine curiosity.
