St. Paul daily globe., 1889-03-17
NO MORE SHAM BATTLES.
Instead the State Fair Directors
Will Have a Competitiye Drill.

Will Have Competitive Drill.
The executive committee of the state
Association is hard at work completing
final arrangements for getting out the
premium list, which will be much
larger this year than any previous.
The committee has determined to make
radical changes in many respects, so as
to prevent the greater part of the
money given as prizes leaving the state.
III former years much of it was carried
Off by outsiders, who make business
OF breeding for exhibition purposes.
The aim of the directors this year will
be to offer the bulk of the money for
animals or produce grown OF bred in
Minnesota. The effect of this will be
to purely localiZe the fair, and to create
a much livelier interest among the
farmers. The prominent breeders of
the state have expressed their unquali-
fed approval of this course, and have
slgnlfied their intention of assisting the
fair by making extensive entries. This
course will be pursued in everv
department, and as far as possible,
the fair will be made dis
tinctly state institution. w. NJ. Bush
nell, president Of the agricultural soci-
ETY., has addressed a circular to all the
machinery men of the state announcing
the appointment of NJ. p. Gilbert as su-
perintendent of the machinery depart
ment, an appointment which will give
great satisfaction. In former years
sham battle has been one of the inter-
esting features, and outsiders have fire.
Quently carried off the prizes which will
this year remain in the state. Instead
of battle it is proposed to hold COM
petitlVe drill, and President Bushnell
has written to the colonel of every regi-
ment in the state asking his opinion of
the scheme. Every reply so far has
been favorable. The captain of every
company has also been asked to bring
the matter before the men, so as to
ascertain if they would generally take
part in the drill. Liberal premiums will
be offered and it is hoped every COM
panY in the state will compete. The
difficulties between the two racing clubs
have been amicably settled and the fair
grounds will be the scene of two of the
finest race-meetings in the coun-
try. The entries are more numer-
Gus than was at all anticipated
and the stables of the best breeders of
horseflesh in the country will be repre-
sented. The dates of the meetings are
month apart, which will leave plenty
of time for training and insure a good
attendance. The fair will be the great
eStand most representative of the state
that was ever held, and from the assur-
ances of support received daily from
every county, promises to be gigantic
success. Another feature of the fair
will be fat stock exhibition. A
slaughter house will be arranged in a
huge glass case, around which will be
tiers of seats for spectators. The finest
steers, hogs and sheen in the market
will be led in, killed, cleaned and
dressed by a corps of experts. This
will not only be an interesting exhibi-
tlon, but very instructive one, as it
will demonstrate to the farmers the
greater amount of money there is i'm
breeding stock for the butcher instead
of for dairy purposes. These fat steers
bring from S12O to S140, and if fed right,
are just as easy to raise as the s.iean
kline" SO often seen at the stock yards.
These are only few out of many fea-
lures of this years fair, all of which
will combine to make most instruc-
tive exhibition.