Show R REPORT E P 0 R T OF tue THE B BOARD OARD OF DIRECTORS OF tim TRE DES DESERET agricultural avd AND manufacturing SOCIETY ON THE exhibition OF 1850 1830 the board of directors of the De deseret A agricultural 0 and manufacturing society in presenting elsewhere in the present issue of the DESERET NEWS to the exhibitors at the recent fair the list of premiums premi uma awarded ito ito the successful consider the opportunity favorable for presenting to the ants tants of the territory aa as well the expression of f their sentiments on the state of home industry ry in general aa as exhibited at the fair while mile the prize list furnishes a record of what ahat was on exhibition at the Fair and arid pub lishes ashes the names of 0 the more successful ex libi hibi tors the directors consider the report dould be incomplete without accompanying remarks the board are much gratified at being able to 0 o state that their recommendations relative to 0 the establishment of branch societies in the different settlements have been generally an ap precia irecia ted by the people and arld that the prospect pro a lect elect is that in a very short time the citizens will vill have a regularly organized branch of the society established in every settlement the ale increasing ncr easing interest taken in inthe lathe the parent society by y its members and the confidence which the branches anches jr repose in its forward march match encouraging to the directors and places them under renewed obligations to be watchful over the interests of the citizens of the territory in every everything thin that pertains to agriculture t to mechanical labor to artistic artisti c skill and to the improvement of the tue best stock and the purest breeds of all domestic animals by comparing the published list of premi tims lims offered with the list of premiums awarded it will be observed that there was a hearty response to the invitation of the directors to exhibit the works of industry the sums awarded to successful exhibitors are not expected to be the stimulus to increasing ing attention and assiduity in the improvement of farms of gardens of stock of the labor abor of the workshops or of the occupation of the leisure hour at the domestic hearth the most successful would find nothing a like remuneration therein but the consciousness that these premiums are the demonstration of the Socie tys appreciation of persevering labor and the disposition of good citizens to benefit the community by their existence the exhibitor therein hilds finds his bis reward the board think it necessary to say that while they have on the present occa ocea occasion sion slon awarded premiums forthe for the best imported stock particularly that of sheep that is va hop hoped edwill will yet materi materially illy benefit the territory it forms no part of the Socie tys intentions Intention sto to establish a precedent thereby as the society is organized specially for the encouragement of everything that can be raised and manufactured in our own mountain home there were many articles on exhibition that commanded the admiration of the directors which ch they tiey would be pleased to particularly notice in their report but thir large ike number r and the limit of space confine them more to the notice oe of things thinea thins of general bene fit than to individual e enterprise enter prize ze we appreciate the taste skill judgment jud mont and labor of the ladies of utah in th the rich variety of their handiwork exhibited at the fair and would desire to encourage them in bpck labom ani and e enca urage and stimulate them thein to teach their children and their childrens children every branch of industry that they have themselves acquired at no former fair in the territory was there ever such a rich display of ladies work millinery fancy needle work wor knich krich rich Tich embroidery crotchet netting knitting and cushion laces it is particularly gratifying to witness the increasing effort on the part of our ladies to compete with apor tation and make the rich and delicate deli deir caie adornments of their persons the workmanship manship of their own hands As a board for the encouragement of home industry we cannot refrain from expressing the pleasure we experienced at beholding the great advancement in the manufacture of such articles of daily requirement reni reul remen as lin flannels jeans woolen and worsted shaa shawls Is ker linen goods cotton goods sati nets carpeting rugs and numerous threads and yarn the great advancement in dyeing in pattern and in te texture was wag particularly noticeable and though we already know the superiority of such goods in point of durability over th their e ir imported rivals we venture to express the hope that with increased increase ti facilities for manufacture alid and with greater abundance of material raised in the territory artt the he time is not distant when aa as commercial articles a alfs they may entirely supplant the imported importe d goods of that class among the finer articles at the fair we noticed with particular satisfaction a very fine specimen of straw pla pia plaiting itin persons thoroughly acquainted with this branch of business and particularly ac with the proper preparation of the straw should find little difficulty in making it a profi able business ness the time was once otice when imported articles could only with difficult difficulty be procured I 1 in the territory but as circumstances circumstance shave have 1 changed and facil facilities litie a for ruinously 8 squandering our money abroad have greatly increased nothing but the fact of personal advantage e to the purchaser is likely ever to command command the choice between the home and fo eign manu facture while noticing this specimen of fine jai pained jal ted straw the board cannot refrain from suggesting that it should become one of the remunerative occupations for the industrious women of that branch of business and yet be marketable alongside of the imported we are satisfied thlu thiu the good sense and arid taste of our ladies would lead patronage in that direction and in so doing they would have the satisfaction of con contributing ri buting to the general benefit of their own sex in furnishing a lighter and more agreeable occupation than that now followed by many and at the same t ime time by retaining cash in the territory enrich the community generally genei ally the same might be said in regard to he the manufacture of combs gloves and many other articles of light C industry the spec meng mens cf of cordage twine etc were particularly good superior to the generality cf of the importe dand wih the protective frei frel freight ht tariff is in the tho market a successful comile compe I 1 there was a marked improvement in the appearance and quality 0 of eart earthenware 11 e n war e itel and from what ii el e earn learn from the makers there is a great probability that before next exhibition very fine table ware will be in the market this is very desirable the farmin farming improvements were particularly good A X sugar I 1 mill made from wagon tire seemed to sila share re largely the of the visitors to the fair and alid assured that it 1 can car I 1 be manufactured and brought into the market ch cheaper e aper than the imported cast iron mills we deem it worthy of this notice As an article in general use the specimens of leather at the fair deservedly attracted attention they were very fine the ile usually limited number of skins in the market arid and the high price of bark continue to make leather a heavy item in the family expenditure in point ot of quality however we think the home manufactured leather on exhibition would favorably compare with leather in any part of the states E every ery person interested in the progress of the territory could not view but with solid bod pleasure leasure the fine specimens of nails on exhibition from our factories this one branch I 1 of industry cannot fail to be an immense benefit git gib to the territory in the savin saving 0 of many thousand dollars yearly the specimens of gunpowder were deci decidedly dealY I 1 worthy their reward the varied branch branches pg of light industry and artistic skill were well represented at the fair and perceptibly 1 increasing in improvement the vegetable P department was well represented the onions were particularly fine and large the white silver yellow burgh wethe wethersfield r sf keld field and red made a fine display the white and red fed beets were not so excellent in quality as enose formerly exhibited the same remark is applicable to the carrots tho the the st james jamea and lon long orange were very I 1 good the carrots beets bee is and parsnips par snips gen brally were not satisfactory to the a awarding warding committee the deterioration owing most arz probably a bly to the use of inferior seed to which attention should be directed there was very little flour and wheat on ex bibi tion probably our farmers have concluded that to their labor superiority in quality and quantity have been accorded to the western world the show of fruit was not as good as at the last exhibition the blossom buds budson of the apricots peach and imported plu piu plum M were win ter killed by the late bevere severe ft frosts there we were e consequently no apricots or peaches on i w which ich the committee could report save a few a ampies samples of inferior kinds from provo there were several fine specimens of grapes exhibited i some grown on bench land are particularly worthy of notice agan eti evi evidence lence of chaj can be accomplished by cultivating such goli goll ou care and ind labor the collection of apples was excellent for the season of seedlings and imported varieties the burgh took the first prize there was a general genera d good collection of seedling 0 and imported varieties of the sharps russett rhode island greening the Aloun mountain tair L chief pr ande I 1 de of the valley a and nd the spice apple which made up an excellent collection from the many good varieties of seedlings being produced atter the very severe bevere winter it may be set down that utah will in a very few years produce as fine a collection of seedlings and imported apples equal in quality to th those ose of any state of tha the union the number of cattle sheep and horses at the exhibition was less than on former occasions but as a general thing the various classes were somewhat better satisfied that the future of any people ia is more dependent on their own I 1 hands lands brains untiring perseverance and unconquerable will than on the best and the most unbounded foreign assistance we confess to something bordering on an enthusiastic likin liking to the productions duct ions ious of our own territory and to the workmanship of our own han ban hands s We vet h therefore ere fore viewed with great interest the accumulated evidences of great the e taste sk skill ill lii and intelligent labor of our citizens on exhibition at the fair of which we have now endeavored to make mak e a summary too limited in space to extend a nolice to everything but yet we trust ample enough to encourage and add notice that which is deserving the attention of the community and its special patronage 11 to compete with foreign rivals E every very bitell intelligent igent stranger that crosses our boundaries from front the east or from the west is struck with amazement at the appearance of our citi cities es and is filled with astonishment atthe conveniences c 0 of life that meet his gaze when be h e crosses the threshold of our homes howes it is no exaggeration to say that our habitations our farms and our gardens are without their equal in the world when our past and present circumstances and peculiar locations and general disadvantages are considered pro ver bially a thousand miles from everywhere in a land without our increasing labor fit i only for the habitation of the degenerated red skins the roving wolf the prowling bear the citizens have almost performed miracles of physical labor and approached the nearest tx to creating a world out of nothing than to anything 0 we have yet heard of or ever expect to tio leai leal learn rn they have done well and proved themselves the possessors of qualities more ble than the mines of ophir or of el dorado 1 in the infancy of settlements foreign aid has doubtless contributed something to the th conven conveniences lences of life ilfe among the general mass and to the special advantage of the few bub but no intelligent person can ion lon long iong M be deceived dece deceived ivea with that temporary aid in the most trying circumstances of life the aern adin best of aid is but aid ald a id at best and though ac aein ministered ered by the noblest of natures it is still I 1 ini int inimical 1 to manly feeling with it comes the consciousness of or personal ir inability ability and with that the feeling g of inferiority and dependence i exchanges of servi services ees of labor labors of product products 3 and of sk 11 are vastly dif dit different mutual advantages alike honorable to all and a general stimulus to development of brain blain and muscle but while the best labor andade most valuable productions of the territory are pasing passing L continually linua lly liy from the hands of the f frugal rug ai husband hubband man maii and the industrious mechanic to the store house bouse of the foreign merchant who in return can give no correspondent equivalent in th manufactures of the territory so EO long iong ion IOD must utah be dependent all lands are not endowed with the same peculiar qualities for special productions nor are all men endowed with the same capacities for labor but every land has its quality and every man his capacity it would be foly folly for the inhabitants of the barren north to enviously pine mourn and I 1 soliloquize in sadness over the richness of the fertile southfork south for the bounds of their habitations have not ocen ordered there but conscious of an ever watchful and directing providence in the affairs of men all should feet feel that where they are there they should be till destiny marks their paths achs elsewhere here ls is is 13 a ashnool school for physical p and mental development the very configuration con fi and quality of the soil a the climate the e invigorating 0 airi air and the peculiarity culi cali anity arity of t the ie seasons contributing thereto elsewhere the great machinery of society in bi loose irregular eccentric and capricious throwing on onto to the surface today to day the favorite of fortune urie and lauschin launching n the same into the abyss ab 19 A of debris on the morrow mor row we ve are here then where right is right tight where wrong is wrong where measure ia h measure and anti where weight Is wel wei weight glit the th screws of the great machinery are in their place and the freaks of fortune and the concatenation ca te nation of events that have betimes elevated a pharaoh to a throne and cast a joseph jospy a to are here unknown favored thus the citizens of utah have to realize that their destiny is in their own hand hands and direct their energies in that channel which must inevitably lead to success and mutual advantage the Irid industry ostry that has turned tamed the desert into a fruitful field and made the wilderness wil wll wilde deruss ruess blos bios boswith Bom som with the rose now aided by the ingenuity that germinates and fructifies in the rugged path of life leads us to sanguinely ply hope for an early future of honorable useful nebs ness and points the finger of progress ss to the lp inevitable evitable independence of mans ambi tion EDWARD HUNTER |