Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1892-11-10
Some Things I Saw at the Exposi-
ton and Fair.

When we reached the buffalo yards
l could not help noticing their
heads. What thick knot of hair, like
big cushion. I thought of a story an
old Rocky Mountain hunter and trap
per told me in the early days of my
Western life. He said Il was out after
some meat one day and came across a
big buffalo bull. had a big buffalo
gun that carried an ounce bali. 1shot
at his head; I thought / could knock
him down in his tracks. You just
ought to have seen how mad that old
buffalo was, and he just took after me.
l tell you done some tall running un-
til came to high bank that was not
far Off. When I got up on top of the
bank that old buffalo rammed his head
right against the bank. We thought
he had me sure, but was a little too
quick for him. When got my breath
"a little put chunk of lead right un-
der the but of his horn and that fetch
ed him, A small bullet would not 60
through his hide"
Although it was not more than fifty
or sixty miles from this valley to where
there were plenty of wild buffalo and
elk, never saw one before those at the
fair. 1 don't think any of those ami
mails were anything like the wild ones
OF the same age.
After looking at all the wild animals,
we took look at some of the smallest
horse flesh ever saw. Those little
bits of ponies, not as large as some old
rams have seen! Icould have packed
one on my back, easy. I saw four of
them hitched to a little buggy, driven
side by side Oh, the little beauties!
They looked SO funny trotting along,
with their harness all SO shiny Idon't
know how many dozen of them it would
take to weigh as much as one of those
big horses l saw.
Hogs, hogs of all sorts and sizes!
Hogs so big they had to lay with their
feet out of bed; hogs that looked as
as though they could not stand on their
feet, they were so large and fat.
AS we left the piggery, or whatever
you call it; right over yonder such
sight! Steam engines of all sorts and
sizes: those that can go by themselves,
and those that were stationary-all
with steam up; some running threshers,
some running hay presses, some one
thing, some another.
1 saw the incest thing out. A ma
chine you put the but OF a corn stock
in, with the ear and stock just as you
cut it UP. 1t comes out, the ear of corn
husked clean, the fodder cut and car
ried up an elevator to the silo or crib;
the ear of corn comes down a shute and
and is taken in another elevator and
carried up to a shelter, and comes out,
the cob in one place and the corn into
a sack. Now, if they will put a mill a
little farther along, and grind the corn
into meal; then some old .'mammy"
stand and bake the meal into good corn
pone, think it would be about perfect.
saw corn cutter machines on low
wheels and drawn by horse; man
stands on the machine: as he drives
along the rows of corn, it cut the stalks
near the ground; the man catches the
stalks on one arm, when he has good
arm full, he sets it up to the shock,
then the horse goes on again. A man
can cut a good many shocks in a day.
with one OF those things.
l saw hay leaders. They looked like
big grass hoppers, as they went along
kicking up the hay with their hind legs.
1t was laughable to see them.
/ saw great many kinds of hay