The record-union., 1892-09-13
WORTHY EXHIBITS.
Some of Those Which Enlist the At
tention of Visitors.

oolnS Ol IHOSe w men Enlist the At
tention of Visitors.
AT the Red House they are cutting prices
wide open to close out 2 200 pairs of pants
AT the same time they are giving special in
ducements on fine dress overcoats and on
storm listers for protection from the rains
soon to be expected.
They have nice overcoats for boys from to
IL at 81 % and upwards.
Boys knee pants suits are great Specialty
commanding large sales.
Ladies shoes are attracting much atten.
ton, especially the line French kids at So
That neat kid shoe with medium heel and
patent tip is great bargain at 81 40
Ladies buttoned kid fox shoes, with clotn
top, are going rapidly at 50, and very nice
So ladies' kid shoe for 81 80.
For 81 % nice lot of ladies' kid shoes
with medium heel and round toe. is being
rapidly closed out.
There is a stylish boys Congress- with ST
Louis toe and tip, going at 81 %.
In the Millinery Department. the whole front
show-windows are "a display, and as YOU enter
a hundred feet further.
To manage this stock requires large force
OF skilled artists and salesadies MANY of
whom nave acquired rare and valuable ex-
perience IN this line. People visiting the fair
should not forget while they are getting one
OF those Rainbow Jersey caps to carry home
10 Mary, to get a nice hat for John.
EARLY MATURITY FOR BEEF.
J. NJ. Dixon of Colusa has lately established
herd of the Cruikshanl type of shorthorns.
characteristics are well typified in the beauti-
full show bull ''Scotch Billy' They are short
legged, pony butt, mature early, fatten easily
and give an extra percentage of best cuts of
beef with small per cent. of offal-the BUTCH
ers favorite.
In the foundation stock are some very
choice cows, selected from well-known herds
of T. S. Page, Cotate Ranch, 2. Childs Davis
vile, and Peter Petersen of Sites.
Milking strains are well represented in
Flora 10th, one of the best bred animals in
the State of high milking strains and by Lady
Shorthorn from Petersen's herd.
MIR. Dixon proposes to pay especial atten-
ton to milking strains and help supply the
demand for good dairy cattle that shall pro-
duce frst-class feeders and beef cattle He
comes mainly as an advertiser, but proposes
to contend for premiums along this line as
Grant fought in the wilderness.
A MILK BREED OF RUsTLERs,
Where feed is thinly scattered over mount
aims and milk wanted for families the AYR
shire is the COW. H. B. Nichols, Grass Val
ley, shows ten good representatives of the
breed. One is Lady Scarborough with a rec
ord OF six and a half gallons of milk and three
pounds OF butter dali y. The latest babies in
Grass Valley drink Ayrshire milk. His herd
of HolstenS, with nine gallons of milk rec
ord, is for sale. A freak OF nature is shown,
RESULTS IMPRoYED-CoSTS REDUCED-NEW
AND USEFUL MACHINERY.
Daniel Best, the widely known inventor of
San Leandro, is here with some machinery
that is comparatively new, and much that is
looked upon as standard and has been re-
Gently subjected to important improvenents
Combined Harvester-The new machine dis
penSes with at least half the gearing and
counter shafts used in other machines by
using single gearing and driving the cylin-
der and header both directly from the main
shaft. In addition to his previous Inventions
OF the safety brake and double shaker that
avoids strain on machine caused by singIe
falOx p in
of many of the most important rights in har-
vesting machinery. He is beginning action
against other machines using his brake
| The Gas Engine-Thts is a phenomenon of
| economy. Just think. Zen horsepower gen.
Grated Tor ten hours on dollars worth of
oil. Fifty thousand gallons of water raise
eighty feet high for every DO cents worth of
oil. The engine costs a trifie less than a
steam engine and boiler required for the
same service. The engine Will run on any
| kind of petroleum or gas, and works better
on gasoline than any otner fuel. Another
great advantage is that gasoline engines re-
quire no expert engineer, nor do they require
the constant attention of boilers using wood
or coal. The original cost of the machine is q
| little less than that of an engine and boiler
required for same work.
Bests Traction Engine and Combined Har-
vester has made for itself great record this
| year. At Colusa, for weeks rum side by
side with stationary machine, it threshed
! 100 TO $50 sacks day more than its rival. Its
record for setting fires shows a less percentage
| of loss than from stationary machines doing
same amount of work. 1t has proven itself
the most efficient of all fire engines as a pro-
lection againstIoss from harvest fires. 1t can
| be made TO run five miles an hour and destroy
every vestige OF fire as it passes. This season
one of the traction engines started OFT to put
| out q fire set by another machine and we
| Under way at one and one-half miles distance.
Alter reaching the grounds the fire only lasted
/ ten minutes. In Los Angeles County, where
| they use cheap quality of petroleum as fuel.
| they report that a pump run by a gasoline
engine on weeks test raised water eighty