The Daily Gazette Davenport, Iowa Wednesday Morning Sept 24, 1862 (Part 2) Farm and Dairy Products.-The show of vegetables is not very large, though there are some very fine specimens. There are some beautiful potatoes, besides squashes, beans, &c. Mr. Evans has potatoes and beans; Dr. Brown a bushel of sweet potatoes; E. Mead, muskmelons, China tomatoes, (a new variety) and Scarlet egg plant. D. B. Shaw a lot of green tobacco. Pantry Stores.-We were unable to ascertain the owners of most of the articles in this class, some of which are worthy of great credit, especially a superior article of honey. A girl named Bridget Sullivan, has half a dozen loaves of as good bread as any one would want to eat. Mrs. Mead also has some good butter, cheese, boiled ham, Sorghum syrup, canned fruits, catsup, flour, wine from grapes, currants, rhubarb, strawberry, raspberry, &c., hard and soft soap. Manufactures.-Here we have the usual show, perhaps larger than usual. C. Deere, of Moline, has 9 of his celebrated plows. C. Krum, of this city, has 10 plows, 2 cultivators, and 2 harrows. L. S. Viele has 1 threshing machine, 1 sugar mill, Smith's corn-planter, from Peoria, W. A. Woods' self-raking mower and reaper. Hunter and Davenport have a fanning-mill and a cultivator.-Davis, Watson & Co. have 1 power corn-sheller, 1 hand-sheller, 1 threshing machine and horse power, and 1 fanning-mill. Michael Donahue has thresher and horse-power. Mr. R. Thomas, of Harrison County, O., has a new wooden pump, calculated, by overcoming friction, to raise water forty feet as easily as the ordinary pumps do twenty feet. Cummings & Swallow's clothes-wringer, a very simple contrivance for the purpose indicated, is exhibited. Mr. W. A. Nourse exhibits a similar machine. Both of these are such labor savers that they ought to be generally introduced. Mr. M. K. Lewis of Poweshiek co., has an improved combination wagon break, a very ingenious contrivance, by which the wheel can be completely checked. The inventor claims for it simplicity and effectiveness. It was patented last April. Geo. W. Smiley and Hills & Washburn brought some of their superb stoves yesterday. Woeber & Co., of this city, show a handsome carriage of their own manufacture; and Clark & Hoyt some of their superb specimens of Eastern work. Collins & Skeel have several articles of furniture of their own manufacture, all admirable specimens of workmanship; among them a bureau with elegantly carved standard, library, upholstery, and other chairs, etc. Domestic Arts and Manufactures.-In this department Mr. Joseph Albright, of East Davenport, has 2 pieces of rag carpet; Mrs. Mossman, a couple of quilts; Mrs. Armstrong, chair-seat, and Mrs. Carter sofa cushion, of raised worsted work; Miss Sarah Barrows and elaborate shell-work frame around a painting on velvet; Mrs. Donnell, a lot of children's dresses, etc. Besides these, there was a piece of flannel, several quilts and counterpanes, rugs,, skeins of year, mittens and socks, lamp mat, silk and muslin embroidery, tidies, shirts, &c. Mrs. Leroy Dodge has a tidy knit in colors, exhibiting a good deal of labor in its manufacture. Miscellaneous.-W. C. Warriner has two cases of shoes. Wm. Wagener, of Moline, has one or two of his ingenious sewing machines, a new improvement, and one we think destined to be popular. D. P. White has four of Wheeler & Wilson's far-famed machines, elegantly finished. Mr. H. G. Welnert of this city, exhibits fine specimens of his manufacture of leather at the Davenport tannery, calf, kip, and harness, a splendid article, and as good as they make anywhere. Mr. Willard Barrows shows a table top of Iowa marble, a very pretty article. Mr. N. Kuhnen, shows a well filled case of fancy pipes, &c tobacco and cigars. Clark & Hoyt, tow melodeons, of Vermont manufacture. Plowing Match.-At 10 o'clock came off the plowing match. The premium in the senior class was awarded to Mr. James Grieve; in the junior, for best by young man under 21, to Wm. McCutcheon; and in the same class, for best under 16, to Murray Johnson. The work was well done, and the plowmen showed they were masters of their art. Trotting.-In the afternoon came the first of the trotting, being the prize of $20 for the fastest trotting horse raised in Scott county, and $10 for the second. For this purpose Mr. Garrett Donaldson entered a sorrel mare, Jane Oakley, 8 years old; Mr. J. H. Haight, a dark bay gelding, Barney, 6 years old; Mr. C. Stacey, Whitefoot, 5 years old; and R. Burt, Green Mountain Morgan, 5 years old. The purse was won with little effort by Barney in two straight heats, distancing the Morgan the first heat, and the mare the second. Time, 3:24 and 3:26. Whitefoot came in a good second both heats. Both Barney and Whitefoot were raised by Mr. Stacey, the present owner of the latter, and they are both promising animals. ~~~~~~*~~~~~~ Elaine Rathmann ACC Scott Co, IAGenWeb Project List Adm: *IA-CIVIL-WAR *IA-DANES *Rathmann