Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1860-11-02
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How Smiths Bull won the Premium

Highly interesting Instruction to Exhibitors Of
Cattle and Horses at State and C0,uttu Fairs
We commend this to all who attend State and
county Fairs. 1t is from the Rural Neac Yorker.
and was first published in that journal a wear
ago, and it is now republished IN the Rural
for the benefit of officers who fill vacancies in
committees.
Col MOORE Some years ago | rot ac-
quainted with one Of your contributors who ed
tied the Woo Groacer, and he used to put me
in print. ! must say my vanity was fattered
seeing my name printed in the puper. with some
things | said, and some didn't say, and we've
kept the paper ever since. After all everybody
likes little fame, but some are satisfied with
a smaller amount than others Well, | have
not the editor any more to set me out, so l have
been thinking I would just try and see if You
would not put me in the Rural on my own hook
especially as l want to tell you all about nv
going to the State Fair, at Buffalo, the other
day.
CONCLUDES TO co.
As it was not so far off but that we could 90
with our team. mother and | concluded we
would hitch up and have week to see the
sights and some cousins we had not seen for a
long time. Mother (that's wife you know,
thought we ought to take something to the Fair.
l told her to take tub of her butter but she
didn't think it was good enough. but thought |
might take some of the stock But | thought
it would be great bother. However, Sam was
pretty strong N the faith that we could beat
everybody on horses, and wanted to take old
Nance She's a right smart old beast is that
old mare, you may depend.
TAKES THE MARE
Well, we packed off Sam. for was willing TO
tha how ho1.1 II H.
good to attend these kind of fairs, do believe
after seeing all I saw there.
GOES IN
We got safely into town on Monday night, and
Tuesday l went up to the Fair grounds to see
what was going on. l got in and found he'd
got the mare entered, and had got his card on
her head, and good stall and all things com
Portable. The animal arrangements were first
rate generally, and during all the time of the
Fair the supply of Fodder was good. l think
that major Patrick, Who was every body in man.
aging things, trump sort of a man.
HEARS SOMETHING
As was standing up near the business Office
in the crowd, | heard couple of men talking
about premiums. One said to the other
Are you an exhibitor ~
Yes
80 am 1, and we had better look to the Com
mitteesn
why so ~
''You see the Committees are never full, and
if you are on hand at the big tent when they are
called, it is easy to slip III friend, which is a
mighty nice thing sometimes
''Well am showing patent for making cow
cumbers and if you can get the premium it will
make my fortune"
''And l am showing new kind of beb-tailed
hens, and premium wont set me back
well you get me on your committee, and
will name you for mine"
''All right go in to win when you can"
Thinks l, perhaps if that's the way the thing
leans, may as well take care of myself as any
one else. Everybody for himself seems to be
the rule on these occasions. So off | streaked
to the cattle pens to find Smith, my neighbor
you know. Nh. P. evidently means ''improv-
ed") Says |. Smith, you're showing bulls,
and I'm showing old Nancy, and guess if merit
counts We can win. And that's the talk here
on paper Then l told him what / heard
about the Committee
lis that so 2''
Exactly"
SWELL think old Nance is the best mare in
the yard );
And you have got the best bull on the
ground"
Then I told him that we must be up at the
tent in time.
Well sure enough, when the Committees were
made up. was on Smiths bull Committee and
he was on the mare Committee.
THE COMMITTEE GOES OUT.
The head man took the book as had the
things in it, and we were all introduced to each
other, and went down to look at the bull. So
we went along and looked at them, and | didn't
say much till we come to Smiths bull. and
looked at him pretty carefully, and went
through the motions as had seen the others.
Says l, thars a bull that looks like it. Smith
had combed him down ard he looked as slick
and fat as hog And from all l saw. l think
fat at Fairs, like what the lawyer said about
charity, covers multitude of sins.
GETS THE HORN PoKED AT HIM.
Just rs l said that, the fellow who had a bull
in the next stall comes up to me pretty fierce,
and says he
''What do you know about bulls ?''
''Well, y says |, L think know what they
are used fer in my section.n
May be. +" says he. you're one of the Com
mittee ~
Il have that honorn says l.
But says he, that bull hain't got any
pedigree /"
Well" says I, ''he had father and mother
didn't he ?"
''Oh yes, but then nobody knows who they
were''
''Well then nobody knows but they were
just as likely as your bulls parents"
But, sir, look at my bulrs 5 pedigree. There
it is sir. Got by imported Shirt-tail, out of
Skim-milk by Thunder etc. and he showed
me a string of names as long as your arm.
'sWell," says TO the Committee are we to
judge the pedigree or the animal ~
And they said, the animal of course"
''Then,' said to the fellow, ''will your bull
get better stock than this ~
"0f course he viii. says he for he's got a
pedigree, and that bull hasn't.
WELL" says l. your bull has got somebody
to brag for him, and the other hasn't certain
Handsome is that handsome dees,n says /.
land as the hymn book says. 'man's a man for
a. that Pedigree gote grass, go in for the
animal
SMITHS EULL WINS
When we got through and looked at the
marks the other two had Smiths bull second