nothing  to  bring  to  a  fair.  The  implementA,  machinery  in  motion,  products  of
wood  manufacture,  and  the  array  of  vehicles  displayed,  made  a  mechanical  depart-
ment that  would  have  shown  to  no  disadvantage  in  a  fair  of  far  greater  pretentions.
Brahmas,  Cochins,  Houdans,  Leghorns,  Games  and  Bantadis  fowls,  and  Bronze
turkeys  and  Toulouse  geese  filled  the  usual  poultry  space ;  while  our  penn  contained
Poland  Chinas,  Berkshires,  and  Jersey  Beds  and  Southdowns  of  merit.  The  growing
popular  feature  of  our  fairs,  and  one  most  easily  worked  up,  is  the  horse  depart-
ment, in  which  thi^  year  the  horses  were  about  equally  divided  between  fair  repre-
sentatives of  the  Norman  and  Clydesdale  in  the  draught  class,  and  the  various
strains  in  the  general  purpose  and  the  lighter  classes.  We  made  a  new  cla.*w  for
standard  bred  horses  now  coming  to  notice  here.
With  the  display  in  the  above  departments,  the  managers  felt  more  than  ever
before  that  they  had  something  to  invite  the  public  to,  if  the  weather  had  been
equally  as  favorable.
We  recognize  that  racing  is  not  closely  allied  to  agriculture;  but  the  manageni
of  our  fairs,  after  experimenting  in  this  direction  and  noticing  the  results  on  other
fairs,  have  concluded  that  the  people  must  have  exciting  entertainment,  and  that
nothing  pleases  so  well  as  trials  of  speed,  and  since  they  want  running  and  trotting,
it  has  been  the  aim  of  those  here  in  charge  to  eliminate  from  bu^  sport  as  we  have
all  the  usual  objectionable  features,  such  as  betting,  pool  selling  and  the  like,  and
stamping  out  all  tendency  to  jockeying  and  kindred  evils  of  the  race  course,  and
give  to  our  people  races  which  are  animated  and  really  contested  and  not  objec-
tionable to  anyone.
