The record-union., 1898-09-01
The FAIR is NEAR AT HAND.
PREPARATIONS IN PROGRESS
ON ALL SIDES.
The Running Events at the Park
Horses Now Arriving
Daily.

But few days remain until the State
Fair opens, yet many local exhibitors
are wofully slow about getting their
displays in shape, after all their prom
ises to the State Board. 1t will be no
easy matter to obtain the use OF the
Pavilion for future State conventions
that take place in August.
For all that, the Pavilion is busy
place these days. Several of the lead
ing home firms are erecting costly and
handsome booths in anticipation OF a
large attendance at the fair.
A feature Of the coming exhibition
that will greatly interest farmers and
dairymen is the creamery exhibit con-
corning which Secretary Smith has is
sued a circular which reads:
I'VE offer liberal premiums for the
best butter and cheese. We have a
complete cold storage plant, operated
on the latest scientific and economical
principles of refrigeration. In this re-
frigerator all the goods sent here for
exhibit will be kept and properly cared
for. We also have in operation a
creamery with the most modern appIi-
ances, including pasteurizing apparatus
and a cheese factory.
CAS- pasteurizing is now almost a
necessity for milk and cream sold in
cities, and in butter making for export
trade, it enables those so interested to
famiIiarize themselves with this meth
cd.
I'VE have through the State Univer-
sity secured the services of J. P. Pear
who iS "a
dairymen of the State, to take charge
of the dairy exhibit and creamery in
operation, and to give instructions and
information to dairymen.
"At the fair grounds several herds
will be represented, and official tests of
these herds will be made by a chemist
from the State University. All who
are interested in the science of dairy
ing should be represented here.
The scoring Of butter will begin on
the 10th Of September, and your sam
pies should be in before the 18th.
Firms having special butter and
cheese which they desire to exhibit
should communicate with Mr.. Pearson
at once, in order that the exhibits may
be placed in the large refrigerator,
where they may be seen by visitors"
SoiAOeI0 VI race AOISGS are arriving
daily from Montana, ST. Louis, Chicago
and other places. and the stalls and
training quarters in and about the Park
are rapidly filling up The track is now
a very lively place, and many persons
go there daily to see the horses work
out. The running events will be as
follows:
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 9TH.
No. g, Selling Purse, S2OO-For four
year-olds and upward. The winner to
be sold at auction. If for $1,000, to
carry rule weights. Two pounds off
for each 500 to $500, then three
pounds to $500. Six furlongs.
No. Z, the Sunny Slope Stake-For
two-year-old fllies. Five furIongs
(C1osed.)
No. s, Selling Purse, S25O-For three
year-olds and upward. Winner to be
sold at auction. If for s., 800 to carry
rule weight. One pound allowed for
each 500 to $500, then two pounds to
$500. One mile and a sixteenth.
No. 8, Selling Purse, S2OO-For two
year-olds. Winner to be sold at auc-
ton. If for $1,000, to carry rule
weight. Two pounds allowed for each
500 to 5000, then three pounds to
$500. Beaten maidens, If started more
than once, allowed seven pounds addi-
tonal Six furlongs.
No. TO- Dewey Selling Stakes-For
three-year-olds. Six furlongs. (Closed.) }
No. II, Handicap Purse, S250-For
three-year-olds and upward. Declara-
ton So Entries close at 10 a. m
Monday, September 9TH. Weights an
nounced by 2 p. m; declarations by 4
p. m. same day. One mile.
THURSDAY, SEPT. STH.
No. II, the Shafter Selling Stake-For
maiden two-year-o at time Of clos
ing Six furlongs. (Closed)
No. 18, Selling Purse, S250-For four
year-olds and upward Winner to be
sold at auction. If for $1,000, rule
weight, one pound off for each 500 to
$500, then two pounds to $500 Winners
of three races this year, five pounds,
Of FIVE or more ten pounds extra Win
ners Of but one race this year allowed
five pounds; non-winners allowed ten
pounds additional. One mile
No. 10, Selling Purse, S200-For three
year-olds and upward. Winner to be
sold at auction. If for 81 900, rule
weight, one pound off for each 800 to
$500, then three pounds to $500. Six
and a half furlongs.
No. 20. Purse, S200-For maiden two
year-olds Five furlongs.