Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1893-08-10
Some Interesting Exhibits Seen
by a Wanderer.
CONTEST OF FAMOUS MILUH COWS.

cnFsu the SNfNlNdl OI Inc IBnLtSts anu
L find a thousand evidences of it
in rambling through the exhibits of live
animals and fossils. And not only of the
fghtist but of the runni8t. And being
myself most inclined to the latter class
am delighted at the conclusive evidence
find here that in the run of ages the run.
ners have stood a better chance than tbs
fighters. The bones show it and the live
animals clinch the proof. The poet OF
science has told us,
How a stag with a neck that was longer by
half
Than the rest Of his tribe NOW try not to
laugh,
BY stretching and stretching became q giraffe,
Which nobody can deny"
Well, at this exposition you can trace
the whole process from theSomad to the
philosopher, from the p~alaeopteryx to the
condor, and from the wild Siberian crab
u. golden hued apples so luscious and
tempting thatthey make me feel Ikea boy
a~gain-that Is, as ii / wanted to grab a
few and run. The fruit exhibition de-
monstrates the whole long history of the
apple and what is Of much more practical
Importance it proves that the alleged de-
cline of soils in various parts of the United
States, in their capacity to produce apples,
reached its worst a dozen years ago and
that new varieties are now showing that
the old apple districts may be made bet
ter than they ever were. The greatest diff
iculty seems to be in extending the
growth southwark. So far as the exhibit
shows the apple is not produced in the
far south any better han it was fifty
years ago, but the advance in peaches and
strawberries is truly wonderful.
One would scarcely expect TO GET lnUer-
ested in dogs while looking through the
agricultural and live animal exhibits, but
there is to be a grand dog show here be-
fore the fair ends and the different races
Of men on the ground show a certain
similitude with their canine companions
which is both curious and amusing. Be
tween the husky of the far north, which
is simply O domesticated wolf, and the in
telligent, soft-eyed and silky haired span
lei the difference is really quite as great
as between their owners. And it is all in
cultivation and natural selection. No
doubt there was a time, O, ever so many
million years ago, when thedogwas rather
a slow and dull creature and the rabbit
anything but a sprinter. But through
| thousands of generations the swiftest
4 uOEk EaQ&uU UHG HOSU ThDDIlS anu ,iflt
swiftest rabbits got away from the most
dogs, whereby and wherefore the slow
rabbits were eaten and the slow dogs died
from the want of something to eat, and so
only the swiftest left posterity.
But this speculation has gone far
enough. What / came into this depart
ment particularly to see was the famous
mixers whose rivalry is exciting all the
farmers who follow the daily reports.
They would not let me in early enough to
see the first milking, which is all done
and the cream and butter extracted in the
cool of the morning and before a. y visit
| itors arrive. At noon and evening one
can get a glimpse of the milking by appli-
| cation to the proper official perhaps.
These cows are called by such darling
names as Eloise, JEANNE, Gertrude and
Miliie and really q man must have a letter
Of Introduction to get near them.
There is no poetry about it. The milk
ing is done by stalwart men and they do
not skim of the cream, they take it out
with an Extractor And they take it
ell, too. The milk residue is almost sky
blue. The churns are about the size of an
ordinary brewery vat, are u by adyna-
mo and make almost as much noise as a
small steamboat. Every particle Of food
Ii weighed and recorded, all the milk is
tested by q chemists and the weight of but
ter is recorded. And by the way, the hGts
| te-is SO thoroughly extracted that the
residue fluid sold as buttermiIk is really
little more thar Whey. The 1nai summary
lis expected to skcw valuable results in de
Gliding tie best Kind OF food. at present
the Jerseys are considerably ahead Of the
GuernsI = aud Others in the yield of but
ter.
as
The butter workers are making consid-
cradle progress in the art. The Illinois
exhibitors have u butter-faced panel with
n welcome to mankind on it of which the
lettering is remarkably fine and those OF
| Nebraska have the material nodded in
many beautiful limitations o~fvines, leaves,
traits and flowers. In this line, however,
the greatest curiosity in the Agricultural
building il the great statue OF Germania,
with a solid base below and over it a dome
supported by six pillars and surmounted
| by the imperial crown OF Germany-all
this aud other figures in solid chocolate.
This ism the German exhibit.
The height of this structure is thirty
eight feet and there is a slight wooden
frame within of course, but $4,000 pounds
of Chocolate are in it. 1t is in the style of
a temple or chapel of the Renaissance
The statue was carved separately cut of a
solid block of 1900 pounds of chocolate
and the pedestal Is decorated with reliefs
OF the three emperors of the present dy-
nasty. Cocoa butter was used to give the
proper finish and in warm weather the
whole thing has to be vanished over FREE
quently, batit is a strange and beautiful
creation. 1t sweetens n fellow just to look
at it. 1t is SO far n work of pure art that
1t does not hare the effect produced by the
much talked of equestrian statne of
prunes in the California building. That's
q wonderful thing of course, for everybody
says SO, but / confess it has u clogging
effect on me-takes away my appetite for
prunes.
l believe there is q more uniform repre-
hentation of all parts Of the United States
In the Agricultural building than any
where else, and from end to end of the Inn
mense structure one walks through a
constant succession OF marvellous scenes
wrought in corn and casse and grass and
cotton There are long vistas lined with
imitation walls in many colors, there are
temples md bowers and grottoes. there
are little art halls and parlon with deli
cate pictures and fhcrc zre vast broadsides