, 1906-09-19
FAIR POSTPONED
UNTIL THURSDAY
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in the county, and it will be noticed
that more than half are represented.
Next year not one should be missing.
Work of City Schools.
The west half of the department is
devoted to the work of the city schools,
the display being arranged according
to grades. Beginning with primary pu-
pills, the exhibits up to and including
the fifth grade may be found on the
west wall, other grades being placed
on adjacent tables. These charts show
extensive n very creditable work In
card sewing, picture framing, writing,
etc, in the first grades, upward through
the regular branches, both the east
and west side schools contributing. On
the east wall of the department is ar
ranged a miscellaneous display from
the various schools, which includes
original designs for wall papers and
similar practical forms of drawing, de-
signs for illustrating familiar stories,
calendar work, etc. This section, as
we'll as the entire department, reflects
much credit upon those arranging and
directing it.
Some Agricultural Exhibits.
Among the first entries in the agri.
cultural hall were as fine a lot of cab
bages raised by Emil Thirkeldsen as
one could see in a long time. The
heads are large, well filled, of a dark
green color and sound as a dollar.
Chris Gabrielsen of the Little Laramie
is in with a display Of vegetables, and
butter for the pantry department. w.
q. Moore of the Pioneer canal brought
in some oats, beets and carrots that at
tracted quite favorable comment. The
experiment station has a display of
field peas, alfalfa of different cuttings,
telephone peas, whose pods average
from three to four inches long, cab
bage, yellow giant mangles, beets of
different varieties, sugar beets, Lentz
beets, black Spanish winter radishes
and mangel wurzels. A number of 9TH
er displays were added to the depart
ment today. Some of the station pea
vines are easily eight feet long.
Splendid Fish Display.
There is a display of fish in differ
ent stages of development that / should
not be ashamed of anywhere In the
United States,' said Superintendent
Campbell, referring to the three large
tanks he has in n corner of the agri-
cultural building. The fish are of diff
%ferent sizes and ages, ranging from
those 6 or Z years old to the young
Just Matched this spring. All the prin-
cipal varieties cultivated at the state
hatchery are shown in the glass-lined
tanks.
Prize Winning Stock.
The F. S. King Bros. Sheep com
Ipany has its prize Rambouillette ram,
"Lockwood," which won the gold med
al at the Louisiana Purchase exposi-
ton at ST.. Louis, on the ground. An
other prize winner is the monster oar
Shorthorn bull, 5 years old, which was
the prize winner in Michigan last year,
and which was brought to Albany
~county by d. N. Stckney. This animal
stood seven in q class of twenty-seven
at the International at Chicago last
year. The Jones Hereford bull, win
ner last year, is on exhibition again.
w. j. Kelly's red S%horthorn cow, new
er beaten in her class, is the center of
a herd of fine animals from the Vance
ranches. The Belgian Horse company
has "E~sculape" to be admired again.
The experiment station has a team of
draft horses hard to match anywhere.
The prize stuff already on the ground
is going to make the work of the
Judges a matter of earning their sal
aries by the sweat of their brows in
earnest.
The Nelson Herd.
Robert Nelson of Morgan is on hand
with a pretty bunch of registered Here.
fords, eight head, including an import
ed animal.
w. j. Kelly has eleven head, includ-
ing Herefords, Polled Angus and Short
horns, one of them a sprightly bull calf
Noah Wallis has a bull and three
COWS, one of the latter with a hand
some bull calf at her side.
c. II. Jones' big Hereford bull has
already been referred to.
Among the Sheep Pens.
The King Bros. company has the
prize 3-year-old buck, Lockwood" FIVE
yearling Rambouillette bucks and
three Hampshire buck lambs.
Mr.. Kelly has five Shropshire lambs,
an imported 2-year-old Shropshire buck
and two aged ewes.
Never Saw Finer Display.
The ~nsens of opinion at the pens
yesterday was that a finer display of
cattle was never made at the fair here.
This was shared in by Pat Doran, who
has been here for more than a quarter
of a century, and who has seen some
fine cattle in his time, both in this
country and in his old home in Europe,
and he pronounces the Stickney roam
Shorthorn, the Jones Hereford bull,
the Nelson registered and imported