The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1900-09-27

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display OF Indian baskets and curosites
is likewise most complete and is con-
stantly surrounded by throng of sight
seers, as is also the splendid collection Of
coins made by F. N. McCandless, OF FL
lens burg.
The Natchez Valley Creamery and the
lockwood Creamery, both Of this county
have excellent exhibits of butter. Man
IA err Il j. Gale, Of the Yakima Honey
Co. shows honey in the comb and strait
ed, also beeswax and the bees in the
hive. The Seattle Brewing and Mating
Co. is represented by j. p Fox, and has
we'll arranged pyramidical display Of
Rainier beer. There are other attractive
displays OF which special notice will have
to be postponed until the coming week.
Prof. Shaw, Of the Montana state agri-
cultural college, is here from Bozeman
and has been officiating as Judge of the
cattle. He with others state that they
have never seen finer lot of stock at any
fair and truly this may be said for there
are some Of the greateet prize winners in
America on exhibition. Chas Ladd, of
,he Oak Hill stock farm Of Oregon, has
sixteen head of shorthorns, including the
famous bull Topsam. weight 2l00 lbs.
W 0 Miner Of the Montana valley stock
farm, OF H@ppner, IN, also aas SPLEEN
did exhibit, his Salty Girl, weight 2l00
lbs, IS the prize winner OF America.
while one of the bulls OF his herd, weight
$500 lbs is the priza winner of Canada.
The lakewood Creamery Co, Of Sp)-
kane, has valuable herd OF dairy cattle,
consisting OF Jerseys, Guernseys and Hol-
stems. One of the Jerseys captured the
the sweepstakes at the Oregon state fair.
In his line OF stock Fechter & Janeck, of
the Mountain View ranch, have nota-
BILE exhibit of Jerseys. They have spared
OF registered cattle and they were award
eight OF the blue ribbon prizes. Mr..
Fetcher.wss offered and refused $3.50 for
one ofbis yearling heifers ON the fair
grounds and said that $500 wouldn't buy
yearling bull that carried off four prizes
''Bess", one of the cows, has record Of
600 lbs of butter in year. Another herd
of cattle that attracted general attention
was that OF A. ]. Splawn. He had TWEEN
ty-one Herfords on exhibition and IS =
cured about all the prizes there were for
this breed.
The sheep were not numerous although
Chas. +. Ladd made good showing OF
the Cotswold, Southdown, and Shrop-
shire varieties. OF pigs creditable exhib-
it's were made by the Lakewood Co. of
POLAND Chinas; by D. M. Shanks, of
Birkshires, and by G. Mel. Richards
and o. A. Clark of Lamworths. The
poultry and pet stock building was ia
vorite resort for all and attracted as much
general interest as any other department.
1t was a magnificent exhibit and reflect
ed much credit on Harry Collier, who is
the superintendent. There are hundreds
of coops of chickens of all kinds, and
splendid exhibit of Belgian hares. tur-
keys, ducks, pigeons and geese. The
principal exhibitors are J. L. Crab. B.
H. Alene, the Hazlewood company, c.
B. Staples, Jesse Latshaw, F. A. John
son. T. B. Gum, Leonard Schott, Henry
Nelson and Henry Stone. MIR. Schott is
feeling extremely happy over securing
ten out of the sixty prizes and one of his
cockerels won the first prize over the
prize cockerel of the Oregon state fair.
In the machinery building exhibits are
made by the Yakima Hardware Co.,
Fawcett Bros, Mart Schich;l and Carley
Bros. OF course the races attracted the
principal crowd and for the balance of
the week good races will be given daily.
The North Yakima band under Leader