The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-09-03

the Most Sanguine Expectations
Are Realized.
Everybody is talking about the fair
this year." said President John Cooper,
of the State Agricultural society, last
night. Mr. Cooper came down from
st. Cloud Thursday, and he has been
very busy for a breathing spell, ever
since he arrived, Notwithstanding the
heat of the weather.
"Col. Liggett has been out at Ben
son." continued the genial president or
the fair, land he reports that never
before, as long as he has been connect
ed with the fair, has there been so
much interest among the country peo-
pie. 1t is the same way up In StearnS
county. The people not only talk 1alr,
but they know when the fair Is to be
held. The dates have been well adj
vertised and the people have the inter-
est to keep the dates in mind. We get
reports like this from all over the
state; everywhere they are coming to
the fair.
THE conditions are exceptionally
favorable The harvest has been
very early one We seldom have the
crops out of the way SO early, or In
such good shape. Then the crops have
been bountiful and prices are fairly
good. The people feel satisfied and
are ready to have a good time. or
course, there are other things which
add to the evident tendency of the
country people toward the fair this
year. One is the extension of the half
fare limit, from $50 miles to 200 miles.
This extension not only lets in large
number of people in the extreme
southwestern and northwestern parts
of the state, but it brings good sec
ton of Northern Iowa into the Mime
sofa state fair radius. Tbs Is an es-
peciaIly good thing, because the I0Wans
are having no fair this year. The one
fare rate extends as far south into
iowa as Dubuque on the east, and all
through the Mason City. Marshalltown
and Fort Dodge districts"
IT see nothing which can prevent
the complete success of the fair"
went on Sr. Cooper, except bad
weather, which is one of the chances
all fairs have to take. We have pos
itively got the exhibits; more of them
in every department than ever before.
Our racing attractions have never been
equaled In the state, and our other
amusement features surpass anything
which has been attempted here in pre-
ViOus years"
Many permanent improvements have
been made. The buildings are in bet
ter order than ever before. and some
new ones have been erected. Not
little stock arrived yesterday, ard
more will come today. Most of the
cattle and horses Will arrive on Sun
day or Monday morning, owing to
their exhibition at other fairs during
this week.
over by the agricultural machinery
sheds the fair was beginning to take
shape There will be acres Of wind
mills, and the threshers and traction
engines are again to be on hand in
numbers.
This part of the grounds. as we'll as
some others, show. the work of the
state board Of health in wiping out
the possibility of infection from germs.
The camp grounds have been burned
over thoroughly, and lAlnerous small
buildings have been burned. Great
quantities of lime and other disinfec-
tants have been profusely used, as we'll
as whitewash and liberal sprlnkling
with carbolic acid 1t insures the per-
wells have been closed up, and no
water will be used upon the fair
grounds except that taken direct from
the ST Paul water mains, which have
been laid on the grounds within few
weeks.
Minnesota will fully maintain its prestige
in the dairy exhibit at the fair. The en-
tries for the butter market are already near
ly up to last year, with the last two days
to hear from yet.
Superintendent Cooley reports eleven coun-
ties already entered for the prizes on coun-
ty exhibits. Some Of these counties have
never exhibited before. Anoka, Stevens,
Isanu and St. Louis counties made fine
shows last year and ought to profit by ex-
perience and do even better this year. Rise,
Redwood, Aitkin, Carlton, Olmsted Steele
Cay and Crow Wing are new competitors
for the prizes.
AS this Is a patriotic year, Manager Elliott
is decorating agricultural hall with red, white
and blue, 1t never decorated before.
The sides and ceiling will be bright with
the national colors. Wherever there is room
to hang a sample Of Old Glory there will be
ready well under way now.
The Polled Angus cattle will make show
this year. Messrs. G. E. Ward, of Hawarden,
To-; Wallace Estill of Estill, Mo; W. A.
McHenry,- of Denison, To-; R. NJ. Wolcott, of
have al entered full herds of Scotch Polls,
and no one is likely to have walk-away.
Willard & Fuller, of Mapleton Mimi, will
show q string Of fine English, German and
French coach and Percheron horses. This
firm have been regular exhibitors at state
ers.
r. II. ScrlDner, OF Rosendale Wis, Is
new exhibitor and will send in his herd of
Jerseys. When 1t comes to judging these
taVorites in the dairy there will be p.enty
or work for the experts. The class will be
larger than last years:
The most surprising expansion in the live
stock department is in the sheep barns. There
are already twenty-four more entries than
the total at last years fair and the tvs
last days for entries yet to come MANY
of the focks are outside the state These
"open to the world" classes have made the
state fair national exhibition.
The new Good Roads building at the
fair grounds will be the most conspicuous Of
the buildings erected this year 1t was sug
were raised by private subscription in few
hours, among men who are saturated with
the good roads idea, and it is surprising how
many men who have been Indifferent are
now active missionaries and doing their best
to spread the good roads idea The new
building will be used to show the material at
hand for good roads and the best way to use
The apple crop in this country, both East
and West, is reported short but Minnesota
orchards are doing fairly we'll The Jewel
Nursery company and other large growers,
will be heavy shippers this year, and the dis
play of apples in Horticultural hall next
week will open the eyes of strangers who
think fruit will not grow here. Neither
hibit at this season of the year. 1t looks very
much as If Minnesota might supply her own
people with apples and export lot besides,
within the next ten years.
Marian Mills, the guideless pacing mare, is
dead, the result of an accident on the track
at Cortland, n. Y, last week. Thousands
VIII remember this handsome specimen of her