The Savannah morning news., 1902-01-18
LIVE STOCK SHOW AT CHARLESTON

Charleston, Jan. 12.-There are crazy
quilts and crazy quilts. Some people
make them of old silk frocKs. scraps,
etc, but there is man at this stock
show who mas one made entirely of the
silk ribbons which have been awarded
him at the various contests in which
his animals have been entered. 1t is
not a small quilt either, and the rib
bons are all red or blue. His herd IS
composed of Holsteins, grand collec-
ton they are. The same may be said
of all the other classes. There are 2t5
entries in the various rings for dairy
breeds alone, comprising the Holstein-
Friesian, Jerseys. Guernscys, Ayr
shires, Brown Swiss, Dutch Belted ami
French Canadian Our people are all
familiar with the Jerseys, but the other
breeds do not sem to have met such
favor in the South as yet. The Brown
Swiss are an attractive lot, of a beau
tiful dun brown color, soft eyed and
kind. The great bull who heads the
herd is a lordly animal. The Belted
Dutch, black front and rear, with
broad band of white around the mid
die, is another practically untried
III ecu % lciA DIS iIllS Country ID COh-
cerned- They are handsome cattle, and
it is wonderful how the marking is per-
petuated. 1t is necessary that the pure
bred naimaI should have
the belt but it must be sym
metrical in its places. An irregular
shaped belt is distinctly against the
chances of the animal wearing it in the
prize ring. One of the cows shown
here in this class is a noted animal,
and certainly looks like an ideal dairy
COW. The judges at this show will
have no sinecure in making up their
awards, for the contests are very close.
There are no choicer animals in Eng
land or America than some of these that
are contesting for the exposition'S lib
eral premiums. OF course, the pre-
miums had to be liberal, or such stock
would not be here, coming some of
them over a thousand miles, and gath
cred from seventeen states. Few as
sociations are strong enough to offer
sufficient inducements in the shape of
prize money to bring these split-hoof
aristocrats south of Mason's and Dix
on's line. So that this show is an
event in stock circles, not fully APP
preciated by a great many. 1t will
be long, long day before there will
be another gathering of stock like this.
o. H. Swigart of Champaign, ILL.,, lie
here with his magnificent herd of
Black Galloways, champions of Amer
lea. T. B. Sotham of Chillicothe, ILL.,,
brings Herefords, the Gray Tower stock
Farm of Grass Lake Michigan; Hard
ing & Son of Waukesha, Wis: G.. w.
Darling of Bluff, o.; the Davises of
Dyer, Ind, all strong on Short Horns.
Tar New Hampshire sends Dutch
Belted cattle to contest with the Old
North State, while the entries in the
dairy classes are from all over the
land. The Southern idea of beef cat
tie seems to have concentrated on the
Devon, and in this class there are
entries from Georgia, North and South
Carolina.
IT is a matter of pride that Geor-
gia breeder should have practically
swept the deck with a herd of Devons
from the "old red hills" Of course
the Bltmore Farm is on hand with
Jersey cattle and Berkshire hogs, and
are reaching out for the money: but
there are others, many others; and the
fight is on. Whoever wins in this
class viii be aware there was con-
test. The display of swine is superb
in all the classes: Berkshire, Essex,
Yorkshire, Nictorias, Paland China,
Jerseys, they are here. all fit, and to
the unscientific eye. all good enough
to take any premium. The last pen
looked at is the best. Then there are
the sheep, a magnificent display. to
judge which, Prof. Scoville of the Ken
lucky Experiment Station has come.
The list is long, Cotswolds, Hamp-
shire Down. South Downs. oxford
Downs, Rambouillets. Merinos such a
gathering was never seen in this sec
ton before. 1t would be a liberal
education to many of Southern far
mers, to see these sheep pens. 1t is
a great exhibition of the highest
achievements of the modern breeder.
worth a long journey to see. 1t is
pity that the quarantine laws will
force a closing by the 25th of January.
in order that the cattle may be shipped
home before the law goes into effect.