THE WISCONSIN PARMER.



amount and respectable in quality. Illinoii
can make a good show in horses and mules-
much better than she did make on this occa
sion; still, this branch of the show was fair
Among the more notable things was a gen.
nine English dray horse, weighing over nine
teen hundred pounds at five years old, with
legs as large as a young elephant. One o0
his June oolts, out of a large Pennsylvania
mare, was as large as some two year olds ol
the small, common stock. Jacks fifteen handt
high, big spans of mules, fast nags, &c., Uc.
  Cattle, sheep and pigs we saw but little of,
and nothing extraordinary among them.
  The machinery show was full middling,
though embracing very little that was new.
Some dozen or fifteen reapers and mowers, all
of them familiar to our farmers already, with
the exception of two or three of very little
promise of future distinction. Grain Drills
and Broadcasters in smallish show, and good
ones scarcer yet; corn cultivators and shovel
plows in abundance, most of them too un-
wieldly and awkward for our small cornfields;
gang plows plenty and subject to the same
objections. Corn shellers and separators, like
small threshing machines, with two and four
horse powers in abundance to drive them.
Corn-growing and harvesting machinery in
all its varieties is much more abundant in
this great corn state than with us.
  Sorghum was also well represented. Seve-
ral mills were in operation on the grounds,
and performed well, grinding the cane clean
and expeditiously. The amount evaporated
was small, and showed nothing new or re-
manrkable. The interest taken in this depart-
ment of the fair, showed that the subject of
Sorghum is not loosing ground in public favor,
but, probably, steadily growing, although this
specially frosty season will dampen the ardor
of the lukewarm.
  The Halls of Manufaotures, Fine Arts and
Farm Products had little or nothing in them
-less than we have usually seen at good
ceunty fairs.
  The attendance was quite respectable for
these times and the location; 20.000 were



claimed to be on the groand at one tien-
probably twelve to fifteen thousand.
  In the way of accoonmodations, only two
small hotels, both kept by the same proprie-
tors, twice full, and more, of course; citizens
quite accommodating at their houses, at two
dollars per day.
  Finally, the Fair was a very decent affair
for an interior loeation; but Illinois, to have
a first class fair, and largely attended, must
hold it at Chicago. Twice as many people
and articles can be got on exhibition at that
point as at any other in the State or West,
and we have no doubt but good grounds could
be found fer it as well there as elsewhere, if
eommon sense and honesty were exercised by
those having the matter in charge. Chicago
is naturally the great Fair-point of the North-
west. We hope ere long to see it fully devel-
oped and Improved.
                                  D. J. P.

     What-About the  White Willow I
  FRIEND HoYT-Dear Sir :-At the request
of several of my neighbors who are somewhat
interested just at this time on the subject of
White or Grey Willow for fence, I write you
at this time.
  1st. Do you know whether it will answer
in this climate for a fence ?
  2d. Will it grow and form a body sufficient
for a fence without trimming or pruning?
  8d. Have you in any of your travels peen
a fence grown from the willow, that in your
judgment would answer the general purpose,
or in other words, was the thing needed by
the agricultural public? Or have you seen
any person or persons in whom you have con-
fidence, so that you have become satisfied that
such is the fact?
An answer to the above, with any other
information which may be suggested to your
mind, would much oblige several of your
subscribers near this place.
Please answer atyour earliest Convenience,
ts there are several who have purchased the
:uttings sufficient for a mile or more each
upon the representations of Arents who ae



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