The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1892-09-27
THOUSANDS IN PRIZES.
They Will Be Distributed to Stock
Men at the Worlds
Fair.
AN Opportunity to Show Off Mon
tana Horses, Cattle and
Sheep.
Cash Premiums Of $1,000 o Are Already
Offered, Besides Gold and Silver
Medals, Cups, Etc.

The live stock exhibit at the Worlds
fair promises to be very large, and Mon
lama will play q conspicuous part in
IL. The exhibit will open June ID and close
Got. IS, 1898, and will comprise seven di-
visions: Cattle; horses; jacks, ~jennies and
mules; sheep; swine; dogs; poultry, pigeons
and pet stock; and fat stook;. In
the cattle division prizes ag-
gregating S31, 245, besides numerous
medals, will be awarded. The short horn,
Hereford, Aberdeen-Angus. Galloway,
Devon, Jersey, Holstsin- Friesian, Ayrshire
and Guernsey CLASSES will each have $1,000
divided among the exhibitors. The
sum OF $1.475 will be divided among
each of the following classes:
Sussex, Red Polled. Polled Durham.
Dutch Belted and Brown Swiss Besides
these there will DO sweepstakes prizes, and
grand sweepstakes herd prizes, the latter
ranging from $50 up to $500. The prizes
offered in the division Of horses aggregate
$5S. 620, and there are several classes IN
which the premiums have not yet been
fixed. There are also many medals. Stan
dard ~trotters will divide $500; thorough
breds, French coach horses, German coach
horses, Cleveland bays, Percherons, Clydss-
dales, Sbires and French draft horses, each
class, 81, 100: Belgian, Suffolk. Punch and
hackneys, $3.2lO each; Morgans, $3.50;
saddle horses, $1,440; Shetland ponies.
1890; jacks and %jennies, S3, 27O; and mules,
81. 1870. In the sheep division $13,995 will
be awarded as premiums. The sum OF S1,175
will be given in each of these classes;
Cotswold, Leicester, Southdown. Shrop-
shire, Oxford, Hampshire. Delano Merino
and Merino 1.-TWO c~lasses). The Dorset
horn, Cheviot and French Merino classes
will each get $500 in premiums and Angora
goats and Cashmere goats 1861 each. The
swine exhibit will get S20,3 $40 in premiums;
the Berkshire, Poland-China, Cheste.
White, Duroc Jersey. Small Yorkshire and
Essex 81. 100 each. and the Victoria Cheshire
and other distinct breeds $1,270 each.
Medals, diplomas and S.. $40 in cash pre-
miums will be distributed to the dogs. The
poultry department. will receive about
81, 600 in premiums, of which $1,000 is for
chickens and 5000 for pigeons. In the fat
stock division cattle will get 49,;
swine $1,915, a total OF $500:
This makes an aggregate Of 1916. 022 offered
by the Worlds fair directoly in premiums,
not to mention medals and diplomas. But
this is not all. There are special premiums.
not a~Rgregating az much as the regular
ones, but in most cases individually higher.
The American Short-horn Breeders associ-
alton offers special premiums amounting to
Sc, 750, in sums ranging from $50 to $500.
he American Hereford Cattle Breed
ers' association offers s., 995, and
the American Aberdeen-Angus Breed
ers' association $2,945. In the
horse division special premiums amounting
to 81. sos are offeI ed by various associations,
besides many gold and silver medals. and
silver cupg. Sheep breeding associations
offer 81, 140 and medals and diplomas as
special premiums. For swine special pre-
miums amounting to $1,49O and
medals are put up by breeding
associations. The regular and special
cash premiums MAKE mp a grand total of
over $160, 600, Before the fair opens other
breeding associations are expected to offer
special premiums, and the regular ones for
those classes where no prizes have yet been
decided ON are expected to bring the total
amount of money to be distributed among
exhibitors up to somewhere in the neigh
borhood of $500, 900. to say nothing of the
gold and silver medals, cups, diplomas. etc.
Montana raises the finest cattle and sheep
In the country, and they class up with any
the world over. Montana bred horses,
whether standard, thoroughbred or other
classes, need no commentator. Their
standing among horsemen Is too we'll
known for that. They are ths hardest of
all animals. n the racing stock can hold
their own anywhere. Montana is not much
of a swine country, but with the horses,
cattle and sheep this state should have an
exhibit at the fair that will %outciass all
other states. Pride in the products of this
state, leaving out the financial Inducements
held out, should guarantee this much.