The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1903-10-08

grew the borecole on a light sandy soil.
One of the lost attractions at the fair
was colt that had a deformed hoof on
It's left fore leg. nplace of perfectly
formed equine hoof it had hoof that
much resembled a cows hoof and there
was long growth out from that part
OF the leg where the hoof belonged,
while from all independent lower joint
was a smaller growth of similar kind.
The freak colt was to have been side
show attraction. It was the property
OF one of the horsemen.
The Galley Hardware Co. had Marks
big tent on the grounds in which they
had a fine display of Deere-W Weber
goods, consisting of full line of sulkies
and gang plows, Kemp manure spread
ers, also a "Reindeer" three-and-a-half-
horse power gasoline engine, which
was operating a wood saw and a corn
shelter and feed mill. w. J. Brown, a
representative of the Deere-W Weber
co., was present and assisted G.. A.
Galley in looking after the exhibit.
GA. johnson, one Of the prosperous
farmers OIL: Baldwin, displayed some
immense Russian sunfower stalks with
heads to them that would measure
twelve inches in diameter. The stalks
were fourteen feet high. Mr.. Johnson
also showed some samples of COW peas
and alfalfa as we'll as bunch of pearl
millett just as the binder gathered it.
He believes in stock food, and says he
finds COW peas a most excellent crop,
equally as good as clover. He raised
three crops Of alfalfa this year, and has
a fine patch for his hogs this fall.
S. B. Smith, the veteran Milo farmer,
went home with lot of honors as he
usually does. He is always a big win
ner,3 but he wins by hard work and a
determination to make competitors
hustle for honors. He showed forty
one varieties of grasses, besides a dozen
different kinds of grains. He showed
first and second crop timothy and clo-
yer and prairie blue joint seven feet in
height. The exhibit was arranged
in manner that showed great care in
selection and preparation. The display
was secured by M. S. Rutherford & CO.
There were quite number of trot-
ting and pacing horses that were to be
entered for the races on Tuesday and
Wee nesday, and had the weather been
| favorable there would have been a
good racing program. Among the
horses that were entered were "Prince
Stephens a PAGER with a record of
2:l74, owned by Mack Mclean of Min
neapolis. F. J. Buckholz had charge
of the horse and George LOOMS was to
| have driven the horse in the races.
Another race horse entered was
''Tags" owned by Bob Salter of Min
neapolis with Jack Scott as driver
'"Tags'' is a trotter with a record of
2:ll4. ''Prince Well'' owned by Jack
Gallagher of Minneapolis was on hand
and ready for the free-for-all race. He
is a PAGER with record of 2:l84. J.D.
Mckenzie of St. Cloud was over with
"Dave Woodline," with a record of
2:3O. The horse is a brother of the
mother of the colt that Mr.. Savage,
the owner of Dan Patch, recently sold
for S., 900. Mr.. Mckenzie said that the
horse had done very little racing the
past season, and the only race that it
was in was at Sank Centre on the
Fourth of July.
The display of fruit was an attract
i've one though there were not as many
exhibitors as last year, but this was
not to be expected at this time of the
year. Among the individual exhibit
ors were Chas. Edison of Orrock, G.. H.
Tomlinson, Robert Air, John w.
Goulding, Lars Anderson and Charles
Peterson. Mr.. Peterson showed some
Seeding apples which he brought in
for the fair last month and left to be
entered this week, but they were en-
tered too late for competition, though
the judges thought he was entitled to
recognition .of some kind. The feat
ure of the fruit exhibit was the elabo-
rate display made by c. w. Sampson
of the Minnetonka Nursery Co., whose
nurseries are located at Excelsior, on
the shores of Lake Minnetonka. Mr..
Sampson showed variety of hardy
apples, crabs, grapes, the famous Com
pass cherry, and even Lake Minneton-
ka peaches that had delicious flavor
The display was non-competitive and
was made by Mr.. Sampson to show the
farmers of this section what it is posi-.
BILE to produce successfully in the fruit
line in this section. The UNION will
speak of this display at some LENGTH