The American Agriculturist. Vol. II. No. XI, December 1843: Designed to Improve the Planter, the Farmer, the Stock-breeder, and the Horticulturist — John Shaqi
The American Agriculturist. Vol. II. No. XI, December 1843: Designed to Improve the Planter, the Farmer, the Stock-breeder, and the HorticulturistVarious
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The American Agriculturist. Vol. II. No. XI, December 1843: Designed to Improve the Planter, the Farmer, the Stock-breeder, and the Horticulturist
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This society was organized and has been chiefly supported by a few
public-spirited gentlemen in the neighborhood. Its beneficial effects
are felt and seen by all of you. To form a proper appreciation of
them, you have only to ride in any direction about the suburbs of the
city. Rude grounds have been converted into productive gardens, and
barren wastes into smiling fields. I recollect a lady's saying to me
last summer, that she meant to make her husband become a member of
this society, because it had done so much to beautify the rides and
walks about the city. She declared the time had been when it gave her
a fit of the horrors, (she was a nervous lady,) to order her carriage
for an evening drive; but that now, there was nothing that she and her
children enjoyed so much. But this is not all. Let him who has been
familiar with your market for the last eight or ten years, compare its
present abundant supplies of the finest fruits and vegetables, with
the meager exhibition of former days; and, after all, let us be as
sentimental as we will, a good market plays a very important part in
the comedy of human happiness. Our merchants and mechanics too should
remember, that these exhibitions are annually becoming more and more
attractive, and that they are by no means inefficient in increasing
the trade of the city. But, over and above all considerations of
dollars and cents, let us, one and all, come forward and enrol our
names as members of this association, which represents the great
agricultural interest of the state, and which should be the pride and
ornament of its metropolis.
LAKE COUNTY SOCIETY.--The show of this society took place at Medina,
Ohio, and a complete account of its proceedings may be found in the
Painsville Telegraph. In addition to the usual show of stock, &c., an
extensive procession was got up of wagons and carriages, preceded by
bands of music. One of these held no less than 35 ladies, engaged in
the laudable occupations of knitting, sewing, spinning, and various
other domestic employments. We wish we could chronicle more such
industrial displays, for we consider them an excellent feature in
agricultural shows.
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