Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1893-09-24
HORSES VS.. CATTLE.

extraordinary difference in the pc
cuniary recognition given horses over
cattle.
This year the speed program an
nounces $4,000 in premiums for
horse races and the total amount of
premiums given the cattle will not
reach over $780,
There used to be some very fac
cattle displays at the Fair. Nearly
every leading breed was represented
and the cattle raissrs took pride in
the displays of thoroughbreds,
The Agricultural Association, how
ever, did not seem 30 care much for
developing an industry which has al
ways been a leading one in this
State
The cattlemen were provided with
poor quarters, insufficient facilities
for watering and cleaning the stock
and the inducements for them to ex-
hibit were very small.
The most an imported thorough
bred bull Of any breed can hope to
secure is $50, while a California
horse that can 60 in the neighbor-
hood of 2:46 can get from $500 to
$1,000 for a weeks fake racing at
the track.
The hay furnished the cattlemen
has always been of the poorest quail
lty, for which double price is charg-
ed and the result of this was shown
at the State Fair during the past
week.
Six cattle were on exhibition, and
they were not striking animals in
any respect, if we except one Hol-
stem bull and one Jersey exhibit.
During the past two years the but
ter industry of the State has grown
to very encouraging proportions, and
cattlemen have been taking more
pains with milk and butter stock.
A prize of 500 for the COW giving
the largest quantity of milk in six
days or the same amount for the
weight of beef cattle, classed in var
ious ages, would have brought a
large list of competitors to the !
front.
A premium of $3.50 for the COW
producing the most butter in six
days, would give an impetus to the
business of selecting good lines in
butter stock.
The Eastern fairs recognize these
industries and the State Agricultural
Society of Nevada should wake up |
and fix their premium list to accord
with the development of the State.
Nevada is gradually becoming the
leading butter and cheese State of |
the Coast, and we are how sending |
gilt edged butter by the car load to
Illonois, and Nevada butter sells for |
. cents more a pound than the best |
butter of what has always been con-
sidered the leading butter State of |
the American Union.
We are sending beef to California |
that brings cent pound over all
other beef,
More land is going under cultiva>
ton every year and the cattle in
dustry, although it has received a
great many set backs, is destined
to become the leading industry of
the State and the State Fair manage
ment in making its list of next years
premiums should recognize this fact.
The APPEAL believes in thorough
bred horses as much as anybody, but
it will always raise its voice in pro
test against giving thousands of dol
lars to the old California skates that
come over here every Fall to have a
carnival of fixed races and pool box
jobberies. When horses entered in
the 2:3O class and come under the
wire in 2;44 the judges should de-
clare the race off, and never give a
dollar to any horse that can't trot up
to the class he is entered in.
A horse with 2:24 record came
under the wire in 2:37, and when
warned by the judges, finished the
next heat in 90. The driver should
have been promptly ruled off the
track, but he wasn't.
When purses are sized up in accor-
dance with the time the horses are
classed III, the public is entitled TO
the time named in the class or better.
At the Reno track horses were not
ridden to win and the effects of