Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-06-12
1T WILL LEAVE ITS IMPRESS.
The Picnic-Supper at the Fair Grounds
Last Wednesday.-Several
Good Addresses.

/ The Marathon County Agriculture
Society invited the members of ths
County Board to partake of picnic
supper at the fair grounds on Wednes
day evening Some forty or fifty peo
pie were present, among whom were
the county officers and the edi
tors of the several newspapers, al
being driven over to the grounds in
'busses at about five o'clock in the at
ternoon A short time was spent in
viewing the beautiful premises, which
of late have been much improved, and
then supper was served by the ladies,
who had voluntarily offered their ser
vices to that most pleasing and satisfy
ing part of the program. Delightful
music was furnished during this time.
by Messrs. DIR. Russell Lyon, james
Hull and Henry Smith, who handled
the mandolins and guitar in manner
that brought forth all of the witcheries
| of harmony of which those instruments
are capable, under the touch of trained
fingers. The refreshments and other
good things served by the ladies Were
very fine, and the manner in which
they disappeared testified to their power
to create an appetite.
After supper. President S. Nj. Quaw
gave short address, in which he i'm
pressed upon all present that they
should do all that lay within their pow
er to make the coming county fair a
success. The object of getting the
board upon the grounds each year
is to show its members, who come from
all sections of the county, the grounds
and Improvements, and thus create an
interest in each fair which will tend
toward good advertisement through
out the county, and bring exhibitors
who have not heretofore tried for pre-
miums and who have not taken much
interest in the fairs or what they have
had to offer. The first meeting of the
kind was held last year and was pro-
ductive of much good.
Secretary L. X. Wright explained
what was done by the county at the
state fair last year, our exhibit there
having created a very favorable i'm
preston, and having advertised this
section of the state as no exhibit has
done before He mentioned certain
exhibits which he would like to have
| the farmers make; exhibits which have
received no attention in the county
heretofore, and which would help ma
terially in carrying off state fair pre-
miums. Attention was also called to
the county fair premium books, adver-
tising matter, etc, which he hoped
those present would help in jndiciously
placing throughout the county. People
in the southern part of the state, he
said, have an idea that Marathon coun-
ty is wilderness, made up of sandy
land and growing nothing but stumps.
The secretary is now making collection
of pictures of number of the repre-
sentative farms of the county, which he
will have placed in large frame and
taken to the next state fair. These pic
lures will cause decided change in the
idea held by our friends in the southern
counties of the state, and will show
what kind of farms we have. Especial
mention was made of the fine herds of
of cattle which will be on exhibition at
the next county fair, and farmers were
strongly urged to be present to examine
them and thus have further interest
kindled in the raising of fine stock.
The next address was given by Louis
Marchetti, who spoke for ten minutes
upon the general advancement of our
county, and also upon good roads, He
took up the history of the Marathon
county fairs and the Agricultural Asso-
citation, giving many interesting facts
about them which are not generally
known. He told about the starting of
the fair grounds by B. G. Plumer and
Aug. Kickbusch, who donated the land
for the same Mr. Marchetti did some
work himself in getting them in shape,
and that was some thirty-two years ago.
The grounds have grown to be among
the finest in the state, being literally
supplied with fine old shade trees, the
more prominent of which are the giant
pines and pretty, symmetrical naples.
The speaker thought that the county
should now turn its attention toward
good reads, macadamizing them in
every direction.
/ A. l.. Kreutzer was called upon
to speak, and he did so by confin-
| ing himself to remarks about the Trial
Orchard" which was put in by the
state upon his farm in the town OF
Maine. He said that the state had de-
country could be raised in this county
twelve hundred fruit trees having been
put in and subjected to the rigors of the
climate, living through it all and grow
ing and fourishing In a productive
soil. Among these trees are apple
cherry, plum, etc, all of which have
been given a severe test, and those on
ly were planted that could stand rig
orous climate. The body of the apple
trees are of Siberian crab, having
come from the cold and changeable
northern regions. Mr.. Kreutzer truly
said that the trouble among the farmers
has been that they have bought hun
dreds of dollars worth of fruit trees
from agents, in promiscuous manner
knowing not whether the trees would
live in such climate, and as genera
thing they did not, dying within shorf
time after the planting He took oc
casion to ask all to attend the annua
: meeting of the State Horticultural SO
eiety, which eonvenes in this city mex
week "Wednesday and Thursday, as b,
thought that fruit raising meant mor'
to the farmers than anything they have
as yet grown.
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