Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-09-11
THE STOCK.

horns and place them on exhibition and
our farmers had become very much in,
terested in the fair on that account. Al
the last moment Mr.. Blodgett wrote
that it would be impossible for him to
come. President Quaw was equal to
the occasion, as always, and he boarded
the next train for Marshfield and the
result was display Of as fine lot OF
short horns as was ever seen in this
country, and fit for any national, state,
or county fair His imported bull,
only two years old, is monster, weigh
ing 1880 pounds, aud beautifully pro
portioned, and is said to be the finest
animal in America The bull cost Mr..
Blodgett 81 800. He also had ten cows
and heifers on exhibition. Mr.. Blod-
gett has 110 registered short horns on
his farm hear Marshfield. We under
stand that he made sale of several of
his animals while at the fair. The
short horns were only entered for exhi-
bition Another excellent exhibition of
lstock was that of Geo. Carpenter, of
| Baraboo. He had fifteen head of the
Red Poll breed, headed by bull of fine
proportions. Mr.. Carpenter has gained
much notoriely for his fine herds of
Red Poll cattle Both of those herds
drew crowds of admires and gave our
farmers an excellent opportunity to see
what good stock is. Mr. Carpenter
also made sale of several of his animals
to our farmers.
Our farmers have commenced to pay
attention to blooded stock and showed
many fine animals on the grounds, and
it will not be long before it will be un-
necessary to bring in fine blooded stock
from away to our fairs, for exhibition
purposes.
One of the largest displays of stock
was that made by Fred Rietbrock, from
his farm at Athens. He had twelve
Guernseys and short horns and some
fine Shropshire sheep. Mr.. Rietbrock
was here himself and took much pleas
ure in showing his fine stock. He gave
his check to the society for $4,000 this
year.
Klein Bros. and G. w Witter had fine
herds of Jerseys, which were great
attraction. Robt Freeman, VIM. Schu-
bring, Mr.. Reineking, VIM. Slater, DR..
Frank Briggs, Nj. F. Duncan, August
Marquardt, and others, had fine blooded
stock.
Messrs. w. H. and s. NJ Quaw had
eight blooded horses and colts on ex-
hibition. c. S. Curtis, M. f. Duncan,
Slater, Briggs and Robt. Freeman were
among those who had line horses on ex.
hibition.
SHEEP.
The State Agricultural Experiment
Station at Madison, sent up splendid
lot of sheep, twenty in all, in charge OF
Prof. Carlysle, and another gentleman.
They demonstrated the effect of five
crosses with a full-blooded Shropshire
ram. Mr. Carlysle gave lecture on
sheep-raising, on Thursday afternoon
which was largely attended by the
farmers and sheep-raisers generally,
and as an educator, it is said to have
been immense. New pens, sufficient
for the sheep, brought here by the
state, were built this year, and all the
old pens were filled by sheep from the
farms of our county. Old Marathon is
getting to be great sheep-ralsing
county. Among the sheep raisers were
w H. and S. M. Quaw and A. +. Mar
quardt, who had on exhibition full
blooded Shropshires.
Prof. Carlysle Is an expert on horses
and cattle and judged the animals on
exhibition in those departments. He
gave brief lecture on every animal
brought before him and he had large
audience all the time, most of which
comprised progressive farmers of our
county.
The sheep and poultry were judged by
the gentleman who accompanied Mr..
garlysle.
ATTRACTIONS.
This years fair was noticeable for the
absence of fakirs and gambling games,
and the management is to be congratu-
lated on the good sense displayed in
barring all kinds of skin-games from
the grounds. There was large tent
under which minstrel shows were
given; another where snake -charmers
and snake-eaters carried on a general
snake exhibition Then there was a
merry go-round which kept up merry
turn from moraing until the close of
each day and must have made money
to burn. The proprietor of this ma
chine had for an attraction, outside of
its hand-organ, two black bear cubs,
which had crowds of admirers all the
time.
The races were the great attraction,
of course As the PILoT reporter had
not the time to attend the races only at
intervals, it can only give the results,
as follows:
RACES-wEDNESDAY.
2:2S pace, 2:40 trot-Purse 5000.
Hal Malone .................-.......l | |
NOltalre. ...................-...........3 =
Decoration Girl ..................2 3 3 8
Time 2:26f, 2:24i, 2:254.
24G Trot-Purse $500.
Tramby Medium........0
Little Zama 0 2 2 q
Silver Hair. .................0 3 DIR
Time 2.44, 2:394, $50, 2:44l, 2:44.
Farmers Race
Black Bess, c. Paquin.-.....-........1 / /
Mary Jane Sprague, o. Paquin...2 2