Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-12-13
The State Fair Board Increases
the Premiums for the Cat
tie Exhibits.
NEARLY $1,000 WILL BE ADDED
superintendent S. B. Packard Believes
1t VIII Result in the Biggest Show
of Fancy Cattle Ever Seen at the
State Fair Some Changes in the
Premium List.

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directors of the State department of
agriculture have added nearly a thou
sand dollars to the premiums to be
given to cattle exhibitors at the state
fair next year. Superintendent S. B.
! Packard, of the cattle department, ex-
poets as the result of this action that
| the cattle show at the fair of 1908 will
| be by long odds the most magnificent
one ever seen in Iowa. Over $4,000 has
premiums in all departments.
Heretofore little attention has been
given to fat stock classes at the state
fairs. All the premiums, practically,
have been given 10 exhibitors of breed
ing cattle. Next year, there will be a
change. The classes for breeding cat
tie will not be cut down, and in fact the
premiums will be increased but at the
same time fat stock classes will be add
ed. Heretofore there has been but one
fat stock class. One of these will be for
the grades and cross breeds: and there
will be one fat stock class each for the
Herefords. the s'horthorns, the Polled
Angus, and the Galloways. 1t is be-
lieyed the new arrangement will bring
an excellent collection of fat steers to
the state fair.
The following shows the awards that
will be made next year in each one of
the five fat stock classes:
Steer or sprayed or martin heller, 2
years old and under 3-First, SIS, sec
ond, $40, third, So.
Steer or sprayed or martin heifer,
year old and under 2-First, SIS; sec
ond, $40: third, SIS.
Steer or sprayed or martin heifer,un-
der 1 year-First, s15; second, $40;
third, SIS.
Group of three head of steers or
sprayed or martin heifers, not over Sc
months old.
months old-First, s1G second, $40;
third, IS.
Sweepstakes-Steer or spayed or
martin heifer not over 36 months old
one first prize $50.
While these premiums are lower than
those given for the fat stock class last
year, there was then but one fat stock
class, while now there are five, thus in
creasing greatly the interest in the
competition In addition to the prem
iunis mentioned above, premium OF
$50 will be given for the grand cham
pion steer or spayed heifer OF the show,
this being open to all the animals dis
played in the fat stock show.
Last year the state fair management
paid out S4,1S0 in premiums to cattle
exhibitors. This was the amount left
after dedueting 10 per cent of the to-
tai of the premiums for entry fees
which were exacted OF the prize win
ners. Next year there will be no such
deduction, which of itself means an in
crease of S4s4 In the money that will be
paid to premium winners. Besides, the
board has added $500 more to the
prizes for cattle, making the increase
in the money that will be actually paid
over to cattle exhibitors the coming
year 1904, and bringing total amount
of the cattle premiums up to s5,144.
1.-THE changes we have made in the
premium list In the cattle department
ought to bring us the best cattle show
we nave ever had at a state fair" said
Ex- Governor Packard superintendent
of the cattle department, yesterday
ut will undoubtedly bring us boom
ing steer show. We feel the steer show
ought to be encouraged. We have in
creased the fat stock classes and the
premiums to be paid out Tor fat stock
to encourage a good fat stock exhibit
in 1903"
One of the questions before the board
yesterday was whether to allow the fat
stock of the Iowa State college to be
exhibited at the state fair. Under the
rules of the state fair no public insti-
tuition is permitted to compete except
for honorary prizes. Some of the d.
rectors wanted to strike out this pro-
vision so as to permit the Iowa State
college to make an exhibit at the fair
The majority of the directors opposed
this, as 1t was feared 1t would not meet
the approval of other exhibitors. The
rules were therefore not modified, and
Ames will be barred from the compe
tition.
Altogether the premiums for the 1903
fair will exceed those of last years
fair by about $4,000. There will be an
increase of about $500 in the horse de-
partment. The premiums on get of
stallion and produce of mare have been
doubled, and are $50 each, instead of
$40. A better GLASS has been made for
saddle horses.