Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 August 1885 — Indiana Slate Fair. [ARTICLE]

Indiana Slate Fair.

The present season so far, is the most projdyotive in the history of the State. The grass and hay crop the most important ,of the products, is immense and all that could be desired. The corn crop, second iu importance, is magnificent, the recent hot weather with the propitious raips have giveu it boom by which it promises to excel in this ..State any previous ’year by several millions.of bushels. The wheat erop although comparatively light in quantity, is of good quality and exceeds ail anticipated estimates, with enough and to spare. The oat crop is the largest ever grownjjrthe St&to by one fifth, and the potato crop; the most indispensable to the human family, will be of such proportions that we could feed the v/orld. Mother Earth is certainly doing her full shari to bring about good times and make happy those who tickle her bosom. These facts in connection with anspieious omens in the rooms of the Board of Agriculture in the shape of business connected with the State Fair, the commence September 28'tji, give assgrahee of another g* ra n'd success. It has been asserted that the last Indiana State Fair was the best agri cultural exhibition in the U. S. This is not mere assertion for the facts can be easily produced to prove it, and the management have reason to expect this season an improvement on the last. The fair has outgrown its' clothes, the greatest want now is more room do -.-safeacLdtseli, and the. , day .is notiar distant, (for the idea is now being enn | tertained) to Shut out all vehicles from the ground during the Fair to give room for the exhibits and visitors. * The Railroads promise better Tates* than ever, and there is hope of some of the prominent men of ine nation be-, ing present at the Fair.