The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1896-10-01
90 A SUCCESS.
The County Fair Comes Out Ahead
of the Game,

The County Fair Comes Out Ahead
of the Game.
The 1896 annual fair of the Red
wood County Agricultural society has
passed into history. The fair was
complete financial success, the society
realizing sufficient to pay all of the
purses, the premiums, and some of the
Indebtedness left from last year. The
gate receipts for the two days amount
ed to something over $3.50.
From legitimate agricultural
standpoint the fair was not a success.
That is, it would not have been pleas
ant thing for residents of the county
to have friends from abroad visiting
them with the view of taking them to
the county fair and showing just what
Redwood county could produce. There
was practically no agricultural display
made. Never in the history of the So
ciety has what is known as agriculture
al hall, been so barren during fair
week, as it was during the three fair
days OF last week. Heretofore the
hall has been comfortably filled or ov-
or crowded with fine exhibits. This
year it was almost blank. On the
south side there were enough displays
to cover tract of space eight feet
square. There were some magnificent
potatoes and tomatoes on exhibition
the finest ever seen by the oldest in
habitant. A squash or two were also
on exhibition, but aside from these
three items there was a blank. In the
center of this hall stands the counters
reserved for the culinary department.
There was decidedly hungry appear
ance to these counters, some eight or
ten jars of preserves or canned fruits
and few glasses of jelly standing on
them and seemingly staring out in
wonderment at the small competition.
Over in floral hall it was the same
way. The lady having charge of the
department gave it all the grace and
picturesqueness that fair hands could
give nothing. The few pieces of
handiwork were lastly arranged and
the visitors could only pass remark
upon the neatness of the hall instead
of the abundance of the displays.
The cause of all this vacancy seemed
to be on account of cutting the pre-
NUNS half in two. People contend
ed that they could not afford to go to
the trouble of competing for such
small premiums and consequently
there was no show of the real fertility
of the soil of Redwood county and
the artistic work of it's people.
Over in the stock department things
loomed up different. The displays
we're not large but they were superb
in the strictest sense of the word
There the magnificent Polled Angus
bull, Golden Abbott, stood in all his
glory: there the yearling Pride OF
Deniston showed his beauty, and there
the Rose of Glendale, with her Sec
ond calf, exhibited her fine qualities
Thos. Denistoun had a couple of sup
erb mich COWS, cross bred, on exhibit
ton. Several fine calves we're shown
There we're number of horses and
colts, all carrying off blue and red
tags. The sheep department had
some nice displays, while in the hog
department there we're some magnifi-
cent specimens of that class of hus-
bandry. Daniel Mckay was among
the exhibitors of Poland Chinas and
he carried off the first premiums.
The races and attractions are given
under a separate head on the sixth
page of this paper.