The Mankato free press., 1907-09-13
Ball Game Was a Tie; Ten
Innings Played.
SPLENDID SPECIMENS OF HORSES
Ginseng Farming and What the Plant
Looks Like; Some Notes Gath
cred at the Show.

den City fair yesterday afternoon. The
probably owing to the threatening
weather. Shortly after one o'clock,
however, the sky cleared and by two
o'clock the number had increased to
races on the tracts were exciting and
attracted the crowd to the fences on
either side of the track around the
judges stand. Three horses entered the
Philips of Mankato with Sycamore J.
in lis, half mile stretch. Little
Annie won the running race, time 55
seconds.
The horse racing was preceded by an
address delivered by Professor Hacker
of st. Paul. The game of ball be-
tween the Lake Crystal and Amboy
resulted in tie. Ten innings were
played and the score was to 5.
At two o'clock yesterday the fol-
lowing number of entries in the va
rious divisions had been made:
Horses 20, cattle Sc, sheep and swine
20, poultry "a, butter 8, pickles and
preserves 2OO,- fancy work $50, paint
ing 76, flowers A, fruit 60, vege-
tables and garden truck 76.
Floral hall had less exhibits than
usual, and the absence of the apple
exhibit there left many vacant places
on the display shelves. The showing
of fruit was made in a tent this
year near the floral hall. While the
number of exhibits were small, the
quality of apples was good. The
illness of Mr.. Parks of Pleasant
Mound prevented him from making a
display this year. He has upwards
of a hundred varieties of apples.
Floral hall, as usual, had many
pretty things brought there by people
residing near Garden City. The paint
ings and fancy work were especially
attractive.
w. R. Adams, who is superintendent
of the swine and sheep department,
has an exhibit of Poland China swine,
all of which are fine specimens and
is an example of the quality of stock
produced in Blue Earth county. His
Poland Chinas are hard to beat.
Among his pens is a yearling SOW
weighing $50 pounds. George Richard
son of Garden City is exhibiting
SOW with several pigs week old.
They are handsome specimens OF the
Poland China family. All the hogs
shown are Poland China, with one
exception; that is one Duroc-Jersey
pig.
Splendid Specimens of Horses.
OF the twenty-nine entries of horses
there are several splendid specimens
John HI. Jones of Lake Crystal eX-
bibits Percheron horse and colt;
Mr.. McDuffy Hambletonian trotter,
mare and colt; Fred Hike of Good
Thunder French Percheron horse; u
w. Traverse of Garden City an Eng
lish Shire horse, imported, weighing
1000 pounds; E. j. MeiXell of Ceresco
two handsome geldings. The Lake
CRYSTAL Belgium Horse company OF
Lake Crystal of which George Austin
of that city is secretary, has on eX
hibition their fine Belgian stallion.
This is a handsome roam colored
horse, and weighs 1900 pounds. He
took first prize last year. George
Austin has charge of the horse de-
partment at the fair.
In the cattle department George w.
Norman of Lake Crystal has entered
three head of thoroughbred Herefords,
which he purchased at the state far
last year. They are prize winners.
n. s. Hemingway of Vernon Center
alwavs has several head of cattle on
display. His stock is all registered.
Mr.. Mcbride of Garden City exhibits
a fine COW. n. P John & Son OF
Garden City have six head of Jerseys
entered. George and Frank Richard
son show Guernseys. Their stock mas
a worldwide reputation, and TINS
years specimens are beauties. "A
novel display in cattle is a family
Of SWISS SUOck oWHcu py ihNN
of Good Thunder. These will proDapiy
he shown at the Mankato fair tomor
row. F. B. Nickerson of Good Thunder
exhibits two two-year-old heifers ana
hill of the Durham breed.
Several pens of Shropshire and ox-
ford sheep were shown.
Secretary George B. Gilman has re-
Gently purchased some registered
Guernsey cattle, and has them on
axb;b;tion in the cattle department..
Z. R. Hobart of Lake Crystal dis
played variety of pumpkins,
souashes, onions, cabbage, potatoes and
other Garden truck, which attracted
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