Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1895-09-13
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kind in America and remarkable ami
mails of their kind.
I Jas. Nichols & Son have seven of
their Black polled augns cattle OH ex.
hibition, male and female.
Worden Strother's herd of Jerseys
were on exhibition in large numbers,
there being two fine bulls and twelve
or fourteen cows, calves and heifers,
every one worthy of premium ut
any fair.
Thos. }. Richards has fine lot of
shorthorns, male and female.
| w. G. Nichols d. Son exhibit a herd
of the Holstein Frezian cattle among
which is their famous bull which re.
fused to burn with their barn. fred by
lightning.
They also have several pens of their
fine shropshire sheep and a pen of
Cashmere goats
w. A. Stockman has q few pens
of the Chester swine that are very
fine specimens of the breed.
Dan Brigham of Schuyler, Nebras-
ka, the patentee OF the automatic
hog watering trough had one on ex-
hibition. They are so adjusted that
the trough is always full and never
overflows, giving the swine always a
full supply of fresh, clean water, a
good remedy for the health of the
swine. The price of the trough ad-
justed to the farm watertank is only
IS 90.
The Howard county poorfarm had
pen of pigs. poland china's,5 months
old, one litter that weighed an aver
age of $50 pounds, there were ten of
the litter.
hfcTp{oc1, hoe n Nj, &c ~.
land chinas, five males and five fe-
males, unregistered, but just as fine
as though that formality had been
gone through with.
T. j. Richards and H.. G. Phillips
have pen of Chester Whites which
are very good ones.
Martin p. Lydon of Crane Creek
had q fine exhibit of his poland China
swine, which are among the finest in
the state. He has seventeen, four of
which are bears and brood sOws, two
of each, and the balance shoats about
four months old. They are the finest
strains in this state or any other, and
it will pay breeders to obtain males
from this herd,
w. E. Laidlaw and Henry j. Web
Der, agents for the steel coiled wire
fence Manufa ctured at Adrian, Mich
lgap, had their fence on exhibition
enclosing three deer from Indian ter
ritory the property of Webster
brothers o. Waucoma. They have
three heights of this fence at the fair
2 feet, 4 feet and feet, they put up
costing 65 cents rod, the posts to be
furnished and set by the purchaser.
The fence on exhibition was a span
of ia feet. Stretched perfectly tight
a swinging catapult weighing over
five hundred pounds with q swing of
twenty feet thrown against it humid
reds of times. every day. without faz-
ing it. The manufacturers offer $500
to any man who has a bull that can
go through their fence.
In farm implements the Novelty
works OF G. T. Watros had lnagnifi-
cent assortment of nearly everything
and mostly of its own manufacture.
In looking at the implements we
could not help contrasting them with
those of the same kinds some fifty
years ago. Forty-four years ago the
editor of the PEE DEE attended. a
county fair at Panama, Chautauqua
county, New York, competing for
premiums in dairy June made butter
and at the blowing match. Our pillow
was OF cast iron, the ploWlng to be
six inches in depth. How strangely
one of those plows compare with the
fine steel plows IN use these days such
as the Novelty works make, as well
as others. At that fair a mower was
on exhibition fine field of second
growth being the place of operation.
The experiment was failure, the old
farmers sagely shaking their heads in
looking at the new tangled thing,
saying that they guessed the scythe
and snatb was the only sure way to
cut grass, that the moving machine
was failure.
b. b. Brooks has two wind mills,
one geared for grinding feed and also
u tank heater on exhibition.
The Bonanza oats, weight Al lbs to
the measured bushel awarded first
premium. Yield so to 112 bushels per
acre. Grown by E. l.. Sibert on the
G. r. Webster farm.
Martin P. Lydon won the sweep
stakes on the best herd of swine also
took five first premiums and two sec
ond premiums and won something
on everything he competed for.