The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-06-14
CALIFORNIA STATE FAIR,
Exhibition of the
State Agricultural
Society.
THIRTEEN DAYS IN SEPTEMBER.
Liberal Cash and Medal Awards
Offered In All of the Eight
Departments.

The forty-second annual fair of the Cali
fornia State Agricultural Society will be
held at Sacramento, September 2 to the
14th inclusive, and every prospect points
to one of the most successful exhibitions
ever held under the auspices of this popu-
lar organization.
The railroads will make substantial re-
auctions in passenger rates, and will also
transport over their respective lines free of
charge.
Over $4,000 has been set apart for
premiums alone, and liberal special awards
will be made for all worthy articles ex-
hibited. In addition to the regular
premiums as set down in the schedule, the
society offers this year as special induce
ment beautiful gold medal to the most
meritorious exhibition in each department,
and for the most attractive and artistically
designed pavilion display the. reward is
special medal of gold.
The ladies' tournament, an attractive
feature in all exhibitions of the past, will
be especially entertaining this year. Cali
fornia has some of the best horsewomen in
the world, and the keen competition for
tournament honors is always an event of
general interest at the fair.
AS in previous years there will be eight
oCpd4 ehlSutS, OcolSudIcO DIS lOAIONS.
First department - Livestock; second de-
partment-Machinery i'm plements, etc third
department - Textile fabrics (mill and do
nestle products) and juvenile department;
fourth department-Mechanical products and
California inventions, ETC.; fifth department
horticultural products and county exhibits; ;
sixth Observation-Disclosures etc.; seventh
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. prod eighth de-
phrtment-Fine arts, etc.
The parades of livestock on exhibition
will be held at 10 O'Clock A. NJ. on the fol-
lowing days: Saturday, September Z;
Tuesday, September 10; Thursday, Sep
TENDER II; Saturday, September IA
Exhibitors in this department are linn
tied to twenty-five head of any one breed,
and for the best exhibit three gold medals
are offered, besides the regular cash
awards, two for horses and one for live
stock other than horses. To entitle stock
to exhibition IN this department, except
that owned in the States of Oregon, Ne
vada and Washington, it must have been
in this State prior to June l.
In the record department, exhibits that
have heretofore received premiums will not
be eligible to competition.
This department will be included in the
pavilion exhibit and will consist of agri-
cultural and other machines, engines,
tools and household implements, We
hicles, etc.
The third department will include
textile fabrics and the materials with
which they are made-clothing, needle,
steel and wax work, etc. In this depart
ment the liberal arts will find representa-
tion-printing, lithographing, etc.
The fourth department will be devoted
to mechanical Observation-Disclosures of
leather, paper and rubber, worked metals,
stoves and castings. musical Instruments
furniture, woodenware, electrical APP
planes, philosophical, sporting, surgical,
dental, drawing, surveying, leveling in
struments and apparatus, together with
chemicals, stoneware, bricks, tiles, crock
cry, glass, minerals, fossils, birds, fishes,
marble and granite work, incubators, etc
The fifth department will comprise hor-
ticultural products and the sixth will be
devoted to yiticulture. The seventh de-
partment will represent the productions of
the State, and in the eighth there will be
an exhibit of the fine arts, for excellence
in which special inducements are offered
this year. The prizes are especially liberal
for work in oil, statuary, fresco, mosaic and
carving. Photography has not been over
looked, and $50 will be distributed by the
committee to all exhibitors in this class.
Work in water colors, crayon, charcoal or
pastel, etchings, India ink, pen and pencil
drawings are all encouraged by the offer of
liberal awards.