Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1903-06-12
PLAN BIG SHOW.
This Years State Fair to Eclipse
all Previous Efforts.
Premiums Aggregating $40, 600
Will Be Awarded Successful
Competitors.

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plans are already we'll matured
for KentuckY's Second Annual
State Fair, to be held this year on
the splendid fair grounds atOwens-
boro, September p to %.
A contract has already been
signed for Kurkamp's band of forty
pieces to play during the entire
week. Popular concerts are to be
gwen each day, the band being of
such character as to make these
concerts among the most attractive
features OF the week. During the
next week or two the management
of the fair will be enabled to an
nounce the series of high-class and
novel amusements which will be
furnished while the fair lasts. The
attractions viii be different from
those ever before offered the pa
irons of big State fair in this part
of the United States.
So important is the fair consider
ed by the railroads, that they have
already announced a half fare rate
from all points in Kentucky, as
well as special rates from Tennes-
see and southern Indiana.
The fair is expected to be bigger
and better this year than ever be-
fore. Premiums aggregating $780,
600 will be awarded, and in some
cases the premiums will be larger
than those offered by any other
state fair in the country. This is
so in the jersey rings,
where $500 will be awarded the
winners. The association has also
set aside $1,000 for the shorthorn
more money than is award
ed at any other state fair, except
OF this purse, $500
will be awarded to Kentucky cattle
alone.
The handsome catalogues just
issued, $4,000 of them, show the i'm
portant premiums, as follows:
Beef Cattle-Shorthorns, $1,000,
of which $1,000 is given by the
Shorthorn Association; Herefords,
ST 200, of which $500 is given by the
Hereford Association; Aberdeen
Angus, 5000, OF which $500 is given
by the Aberdeen Angus Associa-
ton; Polled Durhams, $3.50, of
which $500 is given by the Polled
Durham Association; Golloways,
$500; Red Polls, $3.50.
Dairy Cattle-Jerseys, $500; Hol-
stein FrIeslans, $3.50; Ayrshires,
$3.50; Guernseys, $3.50.
Swine-Berkshires, $500; Poland
Chinas, $500; Duroc Jerseys, $3.50;
Whites, $500; Tamworths,
$3.50.
Sheep-Shropshires, $3.50; South
$3.50; Oxford Downs, $50;
Hampshire Downs, $50; Cotswolds,
$50; Dorsets, 500; American Me
rinos, 500; Rambouillets, 800
500.
For the following classes Of
horses premiums of $4,000, nearly
IS per cent. of the total premium
fund are offered:
Light Horses-Light harness
horses, roadsters, carriage horses,
gated saddle horses, high-steppers
and ponies.
Heavy Horses-French draft,
Percheron, French and German
coach horses, Cleveland bays,
and American coach.
Premiums of $500 are offered for
mules and jacks. AT the State fair,
which was held in Louisville last
fall, the breeders of mules and
jacks organized a State association
and the association will look to the
of the exhibited this year.
Mules and jacks have not been
properly recognized in state fairs
heretofore, and it is the intention to
give them their proper place in the
coming exhibitions.
PREMIUMS will be offered for
garden and farm products and the
work of the women in the kitchen
and sewing room.
Catalogues can be had by ad.
dressing L. d. Shropshire, Secre-
tary, Recon- IS, Board of Trade
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