The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1908-12-04
Big Chicago Show Is Opened to
Gaze of the Public.
GEORGE ABE HAS AN EXHIBIT
Canadian Cattlemen Do Their Share
to Make Exposition q Success,
hassIn's Display.
Especial to The Free Press.l

Chicago, Nov. ZS.-Smasnmg all
world records in the number of en-
tries and with a prize list of $4,000,
the ninth annual international live
stock show today opened an exhibit
ton of blue-blooded horses, cattle,
hogs and sheep such as has never be-
fore been seen anywhere. The vast
international amphitheatre is filled to
overlooking with the best animals OF
the worlds leading stock-raisers, and
the display is one that will gladden.
the heart of any lover of fine stock
The show will last until December
10, and an attendance of nearly q
million people is anticipated. The
international live stock show is by
far the greatest of its kind in the
world and this year it will surpass
itself.
Number of Canadian Entries.
Remarkable about the list this year
is the number of entries received from
Canada All of the stock raising
centers of the United States are also
well represented.
The horse and cattle divisions have
attracted entries that have been
shows held throughout the country
and which saptured numerous blue
ribbons. The entries in these divi
sions are the most numerous ever
listed for live stock show in the
world, it is reported.
The nominations for the different
divisions are as follows: Cattle, 1929;
sheep. 9O5; horses, 1855; swine, 25s;
total, 3,l67. .
AIDE Has an Exhibit.
Among the exhibitors is George
AIDE, the famous humorist, who has
entered four Clydesdale horses from
his Kentland farm in Indiana.
Some people may take it as a
species of humor that should be a
genuine exhibitor at the live stock
show" remarked Mr.. AIDE when he
sent in his nominations. "But 1 pro-
pose to help Indiana get additional
honors for raising horses. 1 admit
the charge that l am gentleman
farmer. But there are extenuating
circumstances.
difference between Percheron and
Clydesdale horses, and seeing team
of the latter in Lafayette one day l
made up my mind that some day I
would be the proud owner of the
biggest and strongest looking draft
animals in the country. If the judges
can overlook my many indiscretions
in the literary line, perhaps the Kent
land Clydesdales will get few bun
dies of blue ribbons at the big show"
Will Have Competition.
Mr.. AIDES horses will be in compe
tition with the fine animasl to be
shown by the Brookside farm at Fort
Wayne, Ind. Graham Brothers, big
Clydesdale breeders in Canada; the
Iowa Agricultural College, as we'll as
the best known stock farms of sew
eral states i'll the Mississippi Valley.
Chicago packers are much in evil
dence in the draft horse division
Armour & company, Morris & com
pany and Swift & Company, having
nominated eleven, ten and nine horses
respectively. C. E. Bum of Peoria,
ILL.,, makes an entry Of six hackneys,
while in the Shetland pony division
he is the largest nominator.
Not little added interest attaches
to the shorthorn cattle division by the
nomination of seven animals from
the Kentucky farm of J. B. Haggin
These cattle 60 into competition with
shorthorns from more than ten states
d. R. Hanna of Ravenna, Ohio, son
of the late Senator Hanna, with fif-
teen entries, and +. w. Harding of
Waukesha, Wis, with seventeen nomi-
nations, are going to essay the cap
ture of ribbons from Congressman
Frank o. Lowden of Oregon, ILL.,
Among the exhibitors of sheep who
will display unusual specimens of
Shropshires are Sir William Cooper
of Berkhamsted, England; Henry L.
Wardwell, the Wall street broker, and
DIR. Davidson of Millbrook, N. Y. Mr..
Wardwell will be the largest exhibit
tor.