Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-09-08

| held in this northern section OF the
state. That was the opinion of hun
dreds OF residents from other counties
who Wis ted it. Every department, ex-
cept one, showed an Improvement that
was very marked. The one not MAX
ing so good showing, in our opinion,
was the grain and vegeLable display,
but there are excuses, for the season is
late and some crops are not what they
should be. There appeared to be a
shortage of varieties but nearly all
: specimens were up to the Marathon
county standard, unless we mention
potatoes. which are poor this year.
But the general excellence of the ex-
hibit will compare favorably with any
such display that will be seen at coun-
tY fair in Wisconsin this year.
In point of attendance the fair this
year was record breaker, and had the
weather man done what was right by
us the society might have made some
money and paid for its permanent i'm
provements of the past year. Wednes-
day was threatening with occasional
showers, Thursday, the banner day, a
heavy downpour of rain drove the peo-
pie home before the racing had finished
and Friday was cold. The general ap-
pearance of the grounds this year was
an Improvement over former years and
a credit to the management. Indeed
the president and secretary, Messrs. s.
NJ Quaw and l.. K. Wright, are en-
titled to a great deal of credit for the
success of their enterprise. Several
new buildings were'found by the visit
or, others increased in size and the
whole newly painted, while the grounds
Themselves were cleared of anything
thai would mar their park-like appear
ance. One of the newly erected build
ings that is great Improvement is the
chicken house. The old one left the
fowls exposed to the wind and rain
while in the new one they are under
roof and walls, and nicely lighted with
skylight. The old one at the time of its
demolition this summer was found to
contain millions of mites or chicken
lice while the new one is built with a
view of sanitation The display in
this building was the finest ever shown
at county fair, Notwithstanding the
fact that varieties were lacking. The
display was long on chickens-decided-
ly so; few but very good specimens
of ducks aud geese were to be seen but
the writer failed to find any turkeys.
In this building were also to be found
homing pigeons, Belgian and Angora
hares, guinea pigs, kids, 1--WE don't refer
to children but to young goats and sew
eral other varieties of pets. The chick
ems, though, would cause an Ethiopian's
eyes to bulge from his head. They were
fine lot, of many varieties, conspicu-
Gus for good breeding and absence of
the kinds usually infesting the pile of
refuse back of barn.
The horse barns did not contain a
great collection of animals but they
were fine appearing and represented
nearly all the standard breeds of draft
and driving horses. The stall of Vote
Face, the $4,000 French coach horse,
was visited by nearly everyone interest
ed in horse flesh The cattle barns
were the centre of attraction for nearly
everyone who visited the fair. Less
than four years ago hardly full blood
head of cattle could be found at one OF
our fairs. A revelation has been worked
since then. A movement was start
ed about year ago by some of our city
lumbermen-farmer in buying few
head of blooded cattle, and which they
have since increased by additional pur-
chases, and with the natural Increase
brings the total of such cattle in the
county at present up to considerable
number. The past three years
number of the better class of farm
ers have also made purchases
of registered cattle as starter for
herd. This year about two hundred
head of cattle were on exhibition
seven distinct types. Fred. Rietbrock,
of Athens, showed Guernseys and
Shorthorns, Duncan Bros, Shorthorns;
j. Simmer, Red Polls; Kline Bros,
Jerseys; Walter Alexander, Aberdeen
Angus, c. S. Curtis, Red Polls; Robt.
Freeman, Shorthorns; VIM. Merklein,
Herefords; John Kennedy, Shorthornsi
Mr.. Morgenroth, Holsteins; be-
sides number of individual animals
by farmers. There were also herds on
exhibition from the following well
known stock farms Red Polls-J.
w. Martin, Richland City; A. Dut-
"a & Son, Trempealeau; c. IL. I'm
derwood & Son, Avoca. Shorthorns-
IF. w. Harding, Waukesha; A. A.
Arnold, iGalesville; Benson & Ander-
ton, Sherry. The showing in this
line perhaps surpassed anything ever
shown in a county fair IL Wiscon-
sin and will equal the exhibit at the
state fair. In the side stalls were many
specimens of the grades while few
good scrubs were also in evidence.
/ A number of those, both from home
and abroad, exhibiting cattle also had
nogs entered and there were really
some fine ones among them, especially
the Berkshire variety A few of these
were later sold in the combination
stock sale.
The sheep department was up to
about the usual standard, as great IN
number of entries and The specimens
shown of high excellence.
In the lower floor of the main build
ing OF the agricultural hall the vege
tables and farm products were shown
which made up a nice display Many
OF the varieties were up TO the usua
Marathon county standard, which i
the best in the state. The Marathon
County Asylum display occupied