The herald., 1897-10-19

The entries Of pigeons include fans, sill
yer owl, carriers, dragons. turbits
homers. jacobins, pouters, swallows
magpie, trumpeters and tipplers. Mr.
Stockwell of Compton exhibits one pail
of Pekin ducks.
The pigeons are beauties and the en-
tire exhibit is tastefully arranged ant
the birds fine throughout.
Sessions & Co. of the Lynwood. dairy
have on exhibition lot of fine Polant
China and Berkshire hogs, not entered
for competition. The herd was exhibit
cd at the state fair at Sacramento anG
carried away more prizes than all the
other herds combined. These hogs are
fed exclusively on SKINNED d milk, and II
size is criterion to judge by, milk i:
| as healthful an article Of diet for swir,e
as for animals of higher grade.
The first pen is occupied by the sire
Money Order, years old; Miss Sanders
Wilkes and Lucerne. pair of fine eows,
come next, and then pair Of pigs four
months old and a pen containing six
of the same age and litter.
In the Berkshires young boar pig un-
der one year, leads the list. King Charm
er weighs 400 pounds and is considered
the finest pig on the coast and took the
premium in every class in which he was
entered at the state fair. Lynwood Olive
and Lynwood Nellie are a pair Of 2-year-
old sows of immense size, and Regal
King, a 2-year-old boar, is what his
name indicates in the Berkshire breed.
A pen containing nine small pigs one
month old completes the exhibit. They
are little Beauties short-nosed and fine
limbed.
Thomas Tucker, owner, and w r.
McCaslin, general manager, have fine
exhibit of the San Gabriel valley herd of
Poland -Chinas. These hogs are all of
Ohio stock. Buckeye Girl was bred by
L. c. Nixon of Fort Ancient, in that
state, and Buckeye Chief by E. Klever
of Bloomingburg. Both are immensely
large animals. Klever was the breeder
of Look-Me-O Over, which sold for $4,000.
and Klever's Model, boar that brought
the highest price ever paid for hog,
$500. Ohio Belle. another of Mr.. Tuck
er's herd, was bred by w. c. Harrington
of the Buckeye state, the oldest breeder
in the country who has kept his herd up
and improved the stock. In addition to
these three are twenty-one head on ex-
hibition, the progeny of those named,
all pedigreed and recorded.
In cattle Mrs. L. G. Hammond Hast
ings has the largest exhibit on the
ground. and they are all handsome, in
telligent-faced Jerseys. Torrancella's
Tormentor is a 2-year-old bull, in the
first stall, with pedigree long enough
to date back to the Maynower, If that
overcrowded vessel included cattle in
its historic list Of passengers and freight
Eithleel, years old, is a large
mixer; Vela Hastings has a test Of nine
ty-six pounds Of butter a month. Mat
tie Campbell and Matilda Conanan are
a pair of beauties, with tests Of fourteen
and twenty pounds Of butter in seven
days by their dams, Highland Belle and
who were exhibited at the
Worlds fair. Mrs. Hastings also ex-
hibits, Pearl, 9 months, and Beauty
Pogis. months, who are real beauties.
Matilda 8 Duke II is fine year-old bull.
This herd of Jerseys was imported from
Tennessee for Mrs Hastings by A. A.
who has them in charge.
Lucien Stockwell of Compton shows
a herd of three cows three calves and
a heifer, all Holsteins and one grade
Jersey.
c. c. Steele of Savanna has on exhibit
tion fine black mule, three grade Eng
lish shire draft horses.
There are three dainty little. Shetland
ponies. entry unknown, that completed
the stock entries today.
The exhibit would be more attractive
to visitors If the yard were less filthy.