Kenosha tribune & telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1856-1859, 1856-10-09
ANNUAL FAIR
of the Kenosha County Agricultural Soci
ety.

ANNUAL. FAIR
of the Kenosha County Agricultural Soci
ETY..
The Annual Fair of this society, came of
Oct lst and 2nd,in accordance with previous no
tice. The morning though very cold in the ear
her part, became, as the day wore on, comfort
ably warm, and people with their stock and ar
ticles for exhibition, came in rapidly, but late
as i was, nearly II o'clock, through the exceed
ingly rapid and business like manner Of the
Secretary, VIM. Orledge, every annual and ar
ticle soon exhibited its appropriate ticket, which
seemed to infuse a spirit of general satisfaction
The number of animals exhibition We
| thought were not so great last year, Sheep
and Cattle in particular. Horses we should
think exceeded any previous fair ever held by
the society both in number, variety and quality.
We thought the first day of the fair was but
lily attended by the general public; the second
day they made up all deficiencies and greater
crowd OF people, we presume to say, were never
leongregated together on one spot within, the
confines OF our county than on the grounds of
the society, on that day. Every person seemed
to enjoy himself to the utmost, and seemed
to manifest greatinteres in the promotion and
advancement of the society, and the develop
ment of the resources of Agriculture in our
county. We commence our REVIEW of the ex-
hibltion on III .r15l..9@ is
Horses.
GEO. W. JACKSON, was on hand with his
well known Morgan Stallion, and six sucking
Colts, of his stock, and also his year old Stall
lion, Bacchus This colt was bred by DR.. Me-
Clellan of Wheatland, and certainly shows that
the Doctors breed Of horses does credit to his
Judgment, and the sagacity displayed by Mr. Jack
son in the purchasing and securing to himself an
animal of this description, shows that his ideas
run in the right direction, for the permanent I'M
provement of our breed of horses.
T. c. DEWEY, of Paris, had on exhibition,
Stallion, Young North of England, another of
much in need of. and Mr.. Dewey certainly de-
serves support of the farming community, for
the spirit he has manifested in introducing such
an animal into our county. The good qualities
of this horse were fairly represented by the
half dozen sucking colts on the ground, of his
Stock.
Mr.. JONAS w. RHODES of Somers, was on
hand with his celebrated horses, but Mr.. Rhodes
and his horses are so well known, and general
ly appreciated in our county that we consider
comment to be unnecessary. sts4
PC. VAN ALsTINK of Salem, had on exhibit
ia, t,vo M toll hal N. 1o
among the best specimens of horses on the
ground for symemtry and general beauty Of con-
tour we think hard to beat. .t..5 ts..f..
DANIEL OSBORN of Bristol, had on exhibition
a yearling Stallion colt, we thought possessed
superior merit. @ Goj III. 5
NATHAN MCCoMMoEs of Wheatland, exhib-
tied one span Of year old mares, which did
him much credit, and augured well for the spirit
of improvement tt5~ Lalt4t5 #.St .
NICHOLAS EnLE, of Kenosha, exhibited lot
of very scperior sucking colts, of the Black
Hawk breed. Indeed when there were so many
superior horses and colts it is dffidult for MS to
discriminate between, SO as to say whose was
the best. We feel that the Judges must have
had a hard task to perform-a task that we will
ngly leave in their hands. But in passing we
cannot but notice a mare colt Off c. McKis-
sons of Wheatland, another of Mr.. III. Winslow
of Somers, which we thought were of very SUI
perior breed. j. w. Rhodes of Somers, VIM. r.
Higgins Of Bristol, Thomas Rhodes of Brighton,
and Others whose names we did not obtain, had
on exhibition mares and colts that did credit to
our county
Some three year old colts which Peter Reas
Of Somers, Henry Jannison of Salem, Thomas
S. Getting of Bristol. r. Davis of Paris, had on
exhibition, seemed to stand prominent
among those we noticed And certainly in this
department as in horses generally, there is ev
cry symptom Of improvement in our breed
that ought to be encouraged.
In single horses, Nathan McCommons again
takes the lead with beautiful bay mare
John H. Brewer of Wheatland, exhibited sin
gle mare, a beautiful animal, which gave evil
dencc that Mr.. B. is up with the spirit Of the
age Improvement. 1t would be hard task
were we to attempt to go through the whole list
Of exhibitors-indeed many of them were I'M
known to us, and should any have escaped
our observation here, and many naturally must,
our friends will attribute it to no derilic ton on
our par utterly impossible it was to find the
names of all. sf.E. ..
d. p. CoNKLIN Of Genoa, exhibited very
fine well trained single horse, which certainly
deserves notice at our hands. ...
HARVEY DURKEE Esq, of Kenosha, had on
exhibition / Devon heiter, 2 Devon cows, s
calves, one 3 year old Durham heifer, one year
ling durham heifer, and several grade heiiers,
which we admired as being first rate; and the
thought struck us that ifevery farmer had just
such stock, what nice show fair we should
mind, why hav mt They'll The Devons exhibited
by Mr.. Durkee were, we thought, very nice in
deed, their rich deep red color, beautiful sym
metry, together with their white horns so neat
y tipped with black, civ es to the devon cattle,
a particularly neat and pleasing appearance,
unsurpassed, we think, by any other breed. =
His durham and grades, were first rate of the
kind and showed plainly that Mr. d. stili holds
possession Of the character he has neby won
standing "a No J." as the breeder and pos
SCISSOR of the best and purest blooded animals of
their kind.
A. w. BENIIAM of Wilmot, had on exhibition
4 very superior durham cow, which gave
conclusive evidence that Mr. Benham is starting
on sure basis.
Mr. J. D. MCINTYRE of Wbeatla nd was there