The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-09-05
HORSE EXHIBIT IS
BETTER THAN EVER
SEVEN BARNS ARE FILLED WITH
THOROBREDs.
Visitors Must Hustle to Gain Infor1na-
t1on About Stock Exhibit as Little Is
Volunteered Mules Heels Not Con-
sidered Dangerous - Amphitheater
Fills Long Felt Want, Say Exhibitors.

Shire is name which must be used
with extreme caution in the livestock
section OF the state fair, by those who
are not conversant with the language of
the farm. 1t will be we'll for the ur-
ban visitors to bear few simple rules
in mind. When a man is heard talking
about Berkshires it is swine, which are
is shifted to Shropshires, the conversa-
ton has shifted to sheep. Yorkshires
are also pigs, but Hampshires are NUT
ton producers. Plain shires mean horses,
big draft horses. There are other
shlres or counties represented at the
big fair, but the shire part is left off.
Information Is Limited.
1t is not good place in which to get
ner: Those who want to find the big
gest boar, the heaviest steer, the most
valuable stallion; and such other infor-
nation will have to look around for
himself, find the big animals, ask their
weight and value and, then compare
notes. :
It won't do to ask the heads of de-.
in the various classes, because they
don t know. There may be some Of the
assistants who know all about the
things people want to know, but it is
hard to find them.
Another feature which is criticized is
the lack of placards OF. banners indi-
eating the breed or variety on exhibit
ton. Usually the attendants are will
ing to impart the information, but they
pens and stalls are marked so as to
show what breed is, on exhibition, but
all shoul be in order that the live
stock should attain it's full value as
educational factor.
Amphitheater a Wonder.
By far the best place in which to OBJ
serve horses and cattle is in the big
livestock amphitheater, which without
any question is the finest building of it's
kind in America. This is vouched for
by correspondents of agricultural pa
pers, horsemen and famous cattle breed
It is desirable to get next to some
farmer who has given some attention to
breeding fine stock, in which case a
great deal Of information. may be ac-
quired with little effort. In the case
Of horses the animals are lined up in
long row. Then each horse is walked
up and down the course and afterward
trotted SO that the gait, movement and
ease and grace Of action may be OBJ
served.
Some Fair Comparisons.
The horse fair is a particularly fine
one and the noble animal has again
come to it's own. The horse show at the
Minnesota state fair ten or twelve years
ago was a farce. It looked then as if
the race was doomed to extinction ex-
cept for slaughtering purposes. Those
were the days when horses sold for 81
vi 4ho
there was no such a thing as market
for horses.
It's different this year. When ten
Belgian stations were trotted around
the ring yesterday afternoon burst of
applause which would have acclaimed
a royal cortege rippled thru the build;
ing. Everyone was an Importation and
was a king in his class. An animal like
Max Remi, Forton de Smeerhebbe and
Marmot de Piersouix has a genealogi.
cal tree that for length will make most