The record-union., 1899-08-10
The STATE FAIR BOOMS.
NEW FEATURES THAT CREATE
NEW INTEREST.
A Fast Track, Thorough Policing,
Dairy Exhibits and Many
Things Worth Seeing.

1 Preparations for a successful State
Fair are going on with unabated in
terest, and the prospects are that it
will be a success such as has not been
seen in years.
William Fieldwich, professional
track man of wide reputation, has been
secured to superintend all improve
ments at the park. He was at work
with a band of assistants all day yes
terday, and by the opening of the fam
the grounds will be beautiful and the
track in perfect condition. The char
acter of the horses engaged insures fast
time; and with the track made in per-
feet condition for high speed, it is be-
lieved the best time ever made in the
West will be recorded.
The cattle stalls are to be renovated,
disinfected, and kept in perfect condi-
ton, SO ladies will feel no danger Of
soiling their apparel by viewing the
cattle exhibit.
! Another important feature will be a
/ better system of policing the park.
Secretary Shields says every precau-
ton has been taken to patrol the
grounds so as to keep good order at all
times.
The following letter. from President
Spreckels has been sent to Boards of
| Trade, Chambers of Commerce and
other organizations throughout the
| State:
1.-THE California State Fair of 1899,
given by the State Agricultural So
ciety. will be held at Sacramento, Sep
TENDER 4th to 10th, inclusive. At this
fair, which is one of the largest in the
West, the choicest products of Cali
fornia are shown. Heavy and light
harness horses, all the leading and
standard varieties of pure bred beef
and dairy cattle, sheep, swine, goats
and poultry are here on exhibition
where any visitor may look them over,
compare their merits, educate his judg-
| ment and prepare to go home and i'm
prove and breed up his own stock, add
to his own prosperity and develop the
wealth of his State
AT the Society's great Pavilion, a
great agricultural, manufacturing and
scientific exhibition will be held. The
choicest specimens and varieties of
fruit, vegetables, grain, forage plants,
hops and general farm products are
here displayed in the highest type of
development. Manufacturing and in
dustrial machinery of the latest pat
tern, novel, interesting and economic, is
shown in all it's variety in motion and
at work. 1t viii take days to satisfac-
| torily view the Pavilion display, and
the benefit and advantage to be derived
from its examination is incalculable.
complaint has been made that the
purely agricultural features of our
State Fairs have been neglected, and
without discussing the justice of this
charge, it is our desire to avoid it's
further repetition. In it's various fea-
lures, the approaching State Fair will
be great institution of instruction and
industrial education. All classes of
farm animals will be on exhibition;
they will be judged by experts and their
points of excellence explained; lessons
| in selecting and feeding beef animals
may be learned, while the selection,
breeding and feeding of choice dairy
animals, together with their care and
treatment may be observed.
1.-THE California Dairy Association
will hold it's annual convention, butter
| tests of dairy cows will be conducted
creamery will be in operation at the
Pavilion, where a model silo will be on
exhibition. In fruits, the choicest in
the land will be shown, mounted and
displayed in the highest style of art.
1t is expected that much of the fruit
| to be shown at the Worlds Fair at
Paris will be shown here before being
sent to Europe
In machinery and manufactures the
display will be varied, interesting and
modern. Major Henry E. Alvord of the
Dairy Division of the Department of
Agriculture at Washington, D. c., has
been invited, and is expected to attend
and address the Dairymen's Conven-
ton, and to judge the dairy cattle as he
did at the Worlds Fair. This great
fair is prepared and conducted at great
| expense of time and money, and it is
hoped that the people of the State will
attend it in great numbers
1.-The State Agricultural Society is a
State institution, formed to spread ag-
ricultural and industrial learning and
to promote the growth of the State
If the farmers and producers of Cali
fornia give it their support and profit
by its instruction, the result would be
of the greatest economic advantage. If
the farm and domestic animals of this
State We're bred and fed and cared for
according to correct and progressive
methods, it the best fruits and veget-
ables and cereals only were grown and
prepared as required by modern de-
mands, if the proper and correct ma
chinery and appliances superseded the
wasteful devices of the past, the wealth
of California would be quadrupled and
her place among her sisters would be
easily first.
THE State Fair is one of the great
schools in which these lessons are
taught, but it is only by a general at
tendance that the proper advantage
can be taken of this instruction. The
members of your organization and the
farmers of California are accordingly
not only invited, but requested and
urged to attend the State Fair of 1899
| and partake of it's advantages. Should
your organization be instrumental in
promoting such attendance, you will
have accomplished a great work.
Should the attendance of farmers and
producers who attend our State Fair
be numerous, and should they derive all
| available benefit ordinarily resulting
from such opportunity, educational and
industrial progress in California will
| have received a distinct impetus.
Hoping that you will take up the
| matter of promoting attendance at the
State Fair as an organization, and that
your membership will be largely repre-
sented among the exhibitors and visit
| ors there. I am, yours respectfully.
"A. b. SPRECKELS.. President"