Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1908-10-01
AUDUBON COUNTY FAIR
The Best Ever Held in Audubon
County Except the Horse Racing
Which Was Up-to-date


Probably the best tair the Audubon
County Agricultural Society ever held
came to close Friday last while the
dust was four inches deep and the
wind blowing sixty five miles an
hour.
For many months the members of
the Association have been using their
best efforts to get together line of
attractions that would please our peo-
pie and at the same time be profit
able drawing card. Long before the
opening day the horse, cattle and hog
pens had been taken and at the COM
mencement the animals were in their
exhibition stalls ready for the judg-
ment of men as to their merit. The
thousands of people who saw them
We're somewhat surprised to see such a
change for the better in the breeding
as had come to our county in such
4 few years Much of it would compare
favorably with state fair exhibits.
1t is certainly not for the meaper
premium that our people receive or
the hope of receiving, that they fit
their animals and take the trouble of
attending the exhibition, but simply
for the friendly contest with their
neighbors that might give them few
points prestige over them. But this
should not be. The man with $500
4 bull, the head of his herd perhaps and
4 the pride of his heart then the man
with the $1,000 stallion who is com
PEELED to attend his wants three times
a day the year around the man with
the two hundred dollar hog who takes
delight in seeing him grow to an
enormous weight; all these should re-
ceive premiums on the merits Of their
animals and commensurate with the
labor taken to make the exhibit.
i Then we. find the man with the seed
corn and the vegetables. Surely this
department is neglected although not
much trouble is attendant to it, still it
demands the best attention of the ag-
riculturalist. We find, too. the cult
nary department very poorly supplied
with exhibits simply because of the
lack of reward of merit Now to
the remedy.
While we pay such large premiums
: for horse race that never comes off,
but rather all agreed upon in the barn
before the horses start who shall win
the race, and how the proceeds shall
be distributed. To be more plain, we
find the men with the fast horses get
$l795 in premiums. The men with
the FINE HORSE and his progeny, il
every division is represented, get 1903
the men with the fine cattle, provided
the premium offers are all taken, ge
S40l, while the men with as fine hog
as human could wish for, if every
thing was taken, would amount tt
$l3i and the men with corn and vege
tables receive $3.50 to be dividee
), among perhaps fifty patrons. VIVA
we would like to see tried would be t,
Cuu Oi IuS ulRu pIlCcu RACES, I'll tl
last day take half the premiums ant
J. add to the hog, cattle and horse ex
d hlbit equally, and with the balance
get up some county races that woul'
bring just as many people through
the gates as the foreign horse woul
e bring.
! Certainly there has been concer
n trated effort in the south part of tn
county to make the fair success
From the Extra station alone six huI
dred round trip tickets were sold i
: Two days, not counting the first am
y last day or the hundreds who attende
D. by auto and teams. The management
did wise thing by engaging tn
Extra band to furnish the music thi
year, the first time in several year,
and this method of keeping the none
d at home is certainly prudent bus
ness principle and it's endorsement i
= the south part or the county was e1
}, pressed by an unusually large attend
ance. Thursday it was estimate
there were eight thousand people o
the grounds.