Hutchinson gazette., 1901-09-05
CENTRAL KANSAS FAIR
NOW IN FULL BLASS--A SHIN
INC SUCCESS.

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but It was in making entries and the pre-
liminary work Of caring for the arriving
exhibits.
Taken all in all, 1t may truthfully be
said that President Sponslers predic-
tions that the fair would be a surprise Is
proving correct The live stock show
is fully up 10 expectations. There are
so many fast horses on the ground 1t IS
useless to attempt TO enumerate them.
They have overrun all the capacity Of
the stalls. The managers Of the horse
department must have been much per-
picked to know what to do with them
ALL
Mr., McFall of this city has several
horses on exhibition, one large Shire
horse, two standard bred horses, one
French Canadian, and one jack. o, f.
Barr OF Buhler, had one fine gray Per-
cheron stallion. The largest showing Of
draft horses was made by w. J, Robin
son Of Towanda, who had eleven head
including two fine large stations, one
black, the other gray, They were
Percherons,
Among the cattle, undoubtedly the
hAndsomest animal on the ground was a
three-year-old Pollcd Angus bull owned
by Parrish & Miller of Stafford county.
He was one Of the neatest, meatiest lit
tie animals that could be imagined,
Over his stall was a whole curtain Of rib.
bons won by him in various contests,
some of them in Chicago and Kansas
City, Parrish & Miller had about a
dozen Of these cattle in the stalls.
These were the only black cattle on
exhibition. But they were fine enough
lot to represent their class, In the
short horn department there were sew
eral herds. The largest and best was
that Of !. F. Stodder Of Burden, Cowley
county, who had eleyed head Of excep-
tionally fine cattle, They were mostly
of the Scotch strains. One bull weighed
very close to ton and some of the COWS
were not much smaller. He is already
advertising big sale Of his Silver Creek
next February,
P. d. Stratton Of Harvey county had
also fine herd of short horns including
altogether thirteen head. Only two head
OF cattle were shown from Reno county.
They were very fine animals, the prop
erty Of Mr., Combs Of Valley township,
a COW and bull of the short horn breed
For some reason Reno county has not
kept up her usual local pride in this re-
spect' Among the beef breeds the
white faces or Herfords, although pop
ular breed and one that has been grow
ing in favor Of recent years made the
poorest showing at this fair. There we're
but two individuals Of this breed in the
stalls and and they were but yearlings.
They were the property of Pearl Gill OF
Stafford county.
Among the milk breeds there was
good lot of Hoisteins, the property Of
of c, F. Stone Of Peabody, Kansas, All
included, there we're eight head of them
and were good types of their breed.
There were but two or three head OF
Jerseys.
Hogs made the largest showing Of
all the live stock except fast horses,
Here is also where Reno county showed
her stock. While there were several
herds OF swine from outside the county
a large portion Of those on exhibition was
from this county.
f. P.Maguire, the well known breeder
from this county who has taken so many
prizes at the State fairs, has the first
pens, four in number, with eighteen hogs
consisting of herd boar and sows with
thirteen shoats. His brother William
Mcguire also has two or three pens OF
nine head OF the same breed, Poland
China. Fay Smith who is now Farmer
Smith has pen Of FIVE fine shoats. H.
H. Hogue and J. D. Marshall Of Walton
were the largest exhibitors Of Poland
China hogs the latter having about five
pens, There are several pens of Jersey
Red hogs part Of which belong to Mr..
Grow of Salt Creek. w, p Ensminger
of Medford township shows five pigs of
the Ohio Improved Chester White breed.
G.. w, Rummel Of Center township has
the only representative Of the Berkshire
breed, but he is an especially fine speci-
men, pig he has just got from Iowa to
place at the head of his herd.
The Hutchinson merchants show their
usual enterprise and almost every firm
has fine display of its wares in floral
hall or in tents, buildings or booths Of
their own on the outside. OF course
some Of them are Of sort that can be
displayed to much better advantage than
others. The hardware and implement
men have no difficulty in making an at
tractive showing, as also especially the
furniture dealers. One would be sur