Agricultural Fairs and Horse Racing
FOR its clever hit at the folly of the so-called Agricultural Societies and agricultural fairs, the following from the San Francisco Alta is worth preserving:— “Our esteemed contemporary, the Sacramento Record-Union, which claims to be ‘the only paper in the State that is doing anything for the advancement of agriculture,’ says a man in Susanville, Lassen County, has a fig-tree in full bloom, which, it adds, is quite a curiosity in the mountains. As fig-trees never bloom, our contemporary’s story has been received with a titter. However, as understood in Sacramento, agriculture relates exclusively to horse races, and it is not strange that the Record-Union should make such a mistake as the above. It comes from living too near the headquarters of a State Agricultural Society that spends all its funds trying to get the trotting record down to 2:16.”