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may be had, according to the kind or condi-
tion of the grain to be cleaned. The Senator
was there himself operating and explaining
the peculiarities of the mill.
  The Hall of Domestic Manufactures, dairy
and other products was filled with many
things of interest.



  The rain caine on just in time to sprinkle
the fair equestrians and to test the courtesy and
spirit of the large crowd of intelligent people
who politely listened-some under umbrellas,
and some in the storm-to what we had to
say on the subject of "Some of the Political
Relations of Labor.
  We like the enterprise of the managers of
the Sauk Co. Society, and regret that circum-
stances this year conspired to deny them
that large success to which their efforts so
justly entitled them.
  On our return, via Sauk City and Mazo
Manie, we were conveyed over the romantic
bluffs which environ Devil's Lakeby Mr. Wm.
Johnson, one of the first settlers of Sauk Co.,
to his fine large farm on the border of that
handsome and fertile tract of farning lands
known as Sauk Prairie. We had never seen
this beautiful prairie before in the day time,
and felt ourself well repaid for the rather cold
ride in the rain which afforded us this oppor-
tunity. In the morning at 6 o'clock, Mr. J.
took us in his carriage and drove us five miles
to the vineyard of Mr. Peter Kehl on the left
bank of the Wisconsin, where we enjoyed the
pleasure of seeing this pioneer in Wisconsin
grave husbandry for the first time, and of
eating of his excellent grapes on the bold and
precipitous bluff where they grow in profu-
sion.
  Mr. K.'s vineyard at present comprises
about 18 acres, and it constantly being ex-
tended. He has hitherto relied almostentire-
ly upon the Isabella and Catawba, but is now
going largely into the Delaware.. Makes
800 to 400 barrels of wine per annum and
sells thousands of pounds of grapes, the for-
mer at $1 60®$2 60 per gal, the grapes at
10 to 12 cta. per lb.



BIN FARMER.

          THlE JEFFERSON CO. FAIR.
  Was held at Lake Mills on the 7th and 8th
ult. We went over "by land," taking Mrs.
H. and other friends with us.  A pleasant
drive through a country to us entirely new.
Delightfully entertained at the elegant and
city-like farm home of our friend M. R.
Clapp, Esq., President of the Society. Mr. C.
resides about three miles from Lake Mills,
and in the midst of a fine farming district.
His farm of 200 acres is one of the handsom-
est we have seen, is provided with excellent
buildings, and so abounds with the real com-
forts of country living that we shall be tempt-
ed to pass that way again.
  The Fair showed the effects of an unwise
difference among the people of the county as
to where it ought to be located. Thinking of
how long this county had been improved-
of its many excellent farms-of its numerous
cities and villages, including Ft. Atkinson,
Jefferson, and Watertown, places of consider-
able magnitude-and thinking, too, of the
many able and enterprising citizens of town
and county, of whom we have long entertain-
ed a high opinion, we were prepared to see a
grand.'exhibition, and a magnificent turn out
of the people. Indeed we were so fully im-
pressed with what we knew it ought to and
probably would be, that we took a little pains
in thinking up an appropriate speech for the
occasion. To those were there it is needless
to say, we were disappointed.   Beautiful
grounds-though merely enclosed by a poor
rail fence and relieved by a small barn in the
centre-were there, and there floated the good
old flag of the Union I but the long line of
pens of grunting swine and bleating sheep,
the herds of lowing kine, the magnificent
show of horses, of manufactured articles, the
always attractive products of the handiwork
and industry of woman, and the piles on piles
of luscious fruits which so abound in the
I immediate vicinity were not therm.
  A fine herd of Devons and pens of Merinoes,
exhibited by Mr. Richmond of Walworth Co.;
two or three pens of Merinoes which Mr.
Jones, of Dane, happened to have there on his