Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-09-15

make the circuit of the mile track COM
piete, and so many in number that the re-
porter found it impossible to catalogue
them by name. A number of fine-looking
jacks, jnenies and mules trained with the
procession.
THE CATTLE SHOW.
The management did a wise thing this
year when they required that at the head
of each herd of cattle exhibited in parade
should be carried banner announcing the
class of stock, together with name and sd-
dress of owner. These requirements were
universally complied with, much TO the
qualification of every spectator in the
stands, who was thereby enabled TO dis
tinguish the kind of stock and to whom
belonging without propounding endless in
terrogatories.
The tlrst banner read
FOREST HOME
HERD CT SHORT HORNS,
PROPERTY OF
COLEMAN YOUNGER, SAN JOSE, CAL.
and was carried at the head of sweep
stakes herd of eighteen Short Horns, every
individual of which had been prize winners
in their respective classes. These cattle
were AL led by men dressed in handsomely
trimmed uniforms. Following came P. S.
Chiles herd of sixteen head of Short Horns
from Davisvllle; Peter Peterson's herd of
twenty head of Short Horns from Sites,
Colusa county; ]. NJ. Mansfield. Short Horn
bull Stonewall Sd, from Napa; ]. A.
Brewers two-year-old Short Horn bull
Baron Pansy, from Irvington, Alameda
county.
HUMBOLDT STOCK FARM
Then came the herd OF Joseph Marzen,
from the Humboldt Stock Farm, LoveIocks,
Nevada, numbering nine head of Short
Horns, prize winner selections made by
Mr.. Marzen from the best Eastern herds.
The red bull Kaweah Duke I'd 1871,
weighing 2400 pounds, ont of Henrietta
Duke 35 754, dam Miss Leslie 4th led the
herd. The remainder of Mr.. Marzen's
stock number, Red Rose of burlington Sd,
four years old, by SD Duke of Airdrie
5O,SS3, weight 1880 pounds; Amelia
Louan, four years old, weight / 555 pounds,
out of Cotton wood Louan 18th Vol. 81;
Victor Mary Sd, three years old, weight
$50 pounds, out of imported Baron Vic
tor As. ga; Telluria Wait ID, two years old,
weight ,425 pounds, out of Earl of Aber-
deem slab; Twelfth Grand Duchess of
Gloucester, two years DID, weight AGO
pounds, out of imported Double Glouces-
ter, dam Beauty; Duchess of Glenwood 5th
two years old, weight 1875 pounds. out of
Earl of Sharon, 43 647; Scottish Lad, nine
months, weight $50 pounds, out of Baron
Lavender third, 1854 dam twelfth
Grand Duchess of Gloucester; and the
heifer calf Humboldt Mary, seven months,
weight 5S5 pounds, by second Earl of Aber-
deem, 81 .413, out of Elmwood Mary.
Mr.. Marzen's herd of twenty-eight took
sixteen prizes and sweepstakes at the Ne
vada State Fair, held in Reno in 1888, and
the nine here are representative of that
lno l. -
the Reno fair, which begins on the 30th
inst.
Next followed William Jacobs herd of
eleven shorthorDs from Sacramento five
head of E. S. Drivers Durhams from Ante
lope: eleven head of shorIhorns, shown by
the California Pastoral and Agricultural
Company of the Chowchilla ranch, MERGED;
three head of shorthorns by T. g. Baty. of
Nicolaus and eleven head of shorthorns
from r. J. MerkIey's Sacramento herd.
Prewitt & Goff of Winchester, Kentucky,
came next with a herd of thirty. one
shorthorns selected from their herd of one
hundred and ten stationed on the Eldred
lot, just outside the main entrance to the
Park, where they will all be sold at public
auction on Wednesday, September 18th, at
8 o'clock A. NJ. They are an exceptionally
choice lot and must be seen to be appre-
ciated. These cattle are thoroughly ac-
climated, and their pedigrees are recorded
in the American shorthorn herd book
A Hebron and Brothers herd of Is head
of short-horns and a second herd of 10
Herefords were followed by II head of
Herefords shown by II. Vaughn, X. Nc
Enespy's head of sleek, little red Devons,
J. E. Camps American river herd of 6
Polled Angus, DIR. g. NJ. Dixon's Argonaut
herd of II Aberdeen Angus, the Interstate
Galloway Cattle Company's herd of 10 head
of Galloway and Angus cattle from Kan
sas City, George B. Polhemus' herd of "a
Holsteins, Leland Stanfords "a head OF
Holsteins, F. II. Burke's % head of Hol-
stems from Menlo Park.
George Bement and Son of Oakland
herd of II Ayrshires, H. S. Sargent's Il
head of Jerseys, A. i. Nichols 10 head OF
Jerseys, w. c. Smiths head of Jerseys,
p. c. Anderson's head of Jerseys, and F
L. Warren's 2 Jersey yearlings completed
the cattle parade.
Several cows are entered in the milking
contest, and for nine days during the fair
the cows are MIXED daily at o'clock A.
NJ. and 5 o'clock P. NJ, and the milk
weighed by committee of one, whose
duty it is to be on hand at milking time.
The cow making the best record gets the
cheese.