Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-09-23
Success OF the state Fair.

!S. +. Alta, September 2lst
The state Fair has closed, after an exhi-
bition unequaled by any preceding it, and a
larger attendance than ever known before.
The show of fine cattle has been special
surprise to those who have failed to note
how closely the thoroughbred cattle follow
the thoroughbred horse. There is some
thing of rare interest in the adaptation of
this State TO breeds of cattle that have been
developed under widely diverse conditions.
The Holsteins bred III Holland and the
low country and carefully cultivated Tor
the chec5e-making quality of their milk
are the oldest breed of bloOded cattle in the
world. They are the ancestors of the short
horns. Their habitat is the marshy Dutch
country, redeemed from the tides and held
against the older title of the sea bv dykes
and dams. Their feed, almost the year
round. is the lush heritage and iuicy root
crops Of that country. They are, in fine. a
moist climate cattle, accustomed to green
heritage, and their quality has been devel-
opod and maintained on that diet One
would suppose, therefore, that their excel
lence would be impaired when they are
brought into the anupodal conditions of
our California climate and pasturage for
here, from the end of the rainy season until
it begins, the only browse is the native
grasses and the wild clover, turned to hay
on the root. It's the driest of dry feed. in
the thirstiest contrast to that which has nur-
tured their ancestors for q thousand wears
for these cattle were feeding down to the
edge of the Zuyder Zee long before their
herders fought the battle of the Golden
Spur, and yet they thrive here and show
their keep in the pail and cheese hoop.
The fact IS of interest, as proving the
wonderful adaptation of our climate to the
preservation and enhancement of condi-
lions peculiar 10 animals bred under widely
varying circumstances for here the noun
tain grazing Jersey and marsh-bred Hol-
stein preserve all their characteristics with
a proficiency apparently enhanced by the
change of climate. The same is true of the
horses. The rotter and therunner flourish
here side by side, and reach such early per-
fiction that the author Of " Wallace on the
Horse" that book which is TO our horses
what Burke's Peerage is 10 the aristocracv
of England, said after Z visit to our stud
farms that he wondered the horse had not
been created in California instead of in
Western Asia Here the descendants of
Messenger and of Rysdyk's Hambletonian.
the trotters. bred from Pennsylvania and
the North liver country in New York, con-
sort with the line of runners descended from
Diomed, Glencoe, and bennington, who
reach US from Virginia and the Kentucky
bluegrass pastures, and trotter and thor
OlEtibiSb tAilA Nbti5ttiidl CDltatl0IlS tudE are
absolutely unknown elsewhere
All these things impressed Q visitor to
the greatest Slate Fair, just closed. and
Californian could not avoid feeling Of re-
greet th8t some arrangement was not made
to secure Eastern excursions 10 that exhi-
bitioa- We remember The old United
States Fairs ihatuseG to be held in Chicago
ant drew visitors fTom all over the coun-
try, bHt not one OF them ever offered an
exhibition equal to that Just closed il Sac
ramento, or as worthy If an audience gath
cred from all over the Union. If next
year be q gear OF promise to cur rural IN
terests, and God grant that it may be
measures should be taken to secure ~
Eastern audience a. this far. To see is ta
believe, and the wonders into which our
sou and sunshine are transmitted viii
never be believed in cold type. The man
ayers OF the next fair have had high mark
OF excellence set for them by President
Carr and this years Board of Directors, and
thai they Will sustain the reputation of tie
exhibit We have no doubt.