Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1909-08-10
THE STATE FAIR
Kentucky People All AgOg
Over Coming Event.
A HANDSOME PRIZE LIST
Thirty Thousand Dollars Offered In
Prizes for Week Of septem.
Der 18Th to 18th
Details Of Some of the Chief Attrae.
tions to BE Presented This
Year.

Thirty thousand dollars makes a
very handsome prize list. This
amount will be offered at the Seventh
annual Kentucky State Fair, which
is scheduled for the week of Sep
tember 18th to 18th, inclusive. The
marvellous piece OF work accomplished
In the incomparably short time OF
three months last season, in which the
largest. most useful and most beauti
full show pavilion in the world, and a
permanent grand stand of steel and
concrete construction were erected, a
model half mile race track was built,
and some forty or more buildings of a
more temporary nature, for the hous
ing OF all livestock, agricultural, hor
ticultural exhibits, etc. were complet-
ed, Is fresh in the minds Of those who
witnessed last years exhibition. With
the addition of beautiful road ways,
flower beds and installation of electric
lights in the pavilion for the use of
horse show and hippOdrome perfor
mancos in the evening the grounds
will present a grander and more bril-
liant spectacle this year In nearly
every department. the number of
classes have been increased ard more
liberal prizes are offered This is
| especially true in the beef cattle and
poultry departments in each of which
the total money offered is probably
thirty per cent larger than last year
The special prizes are much more
attractive and represent a greater
value than ever before. The honor and
prestige of winning many of these
trophies is infinitely greater tnan the
intrinsic value Of the prize itself The
specials listed include the Highland
Home" cup, which is donated by Gay
Bros of Pisgah, KY, for the best and
finest saddle bred foal of 1909; the
American saddle horse breeders as
ISOLATION trophy for registered stallion
! or mare three years old or under; the
Montgomery chief special of 1925 Of
fered by Ball Bros, Versailles, KY, for
the finest and best stallion, mare or
| gelding any age by Montgomery Chief
/ lAlC PLfDNO LAGututhy AtilIHI Sduulc
horse futurity for saddle bred foals
Of 1909, the only saddle horse futurity
| In eXistance which closed April LIST
with 225 nominations; the commits
5iOner of agriculture saddle horse
special, value at $500 for the best FIVE
gated saddle stallion, mare or gelding
three years old or over; a handsome
cup for the champion roadster, given
by Mr.. Basil Doerhoefer of Louisville;
the DR.. McChord cup for the best herd
of jack stock offered by Mr. w. p.
Hayes of Bloomfield, Ky; the grand
silver trophy offered by the American
Berkshire Swine Association for best
young herd of Berkshires exhibited by
Kentucky breeder. which Is the covet-
ed honor of the show among Berk-
shire breeders In every state; an ag-
gregate sum Of nearly $500 given by
Commissioner Rankin for all the lead.
ing standard varieties Of poultry; a
silver cup donated by Mr.. F. H. Behr.
ing for best exhibit of Kentucky bred
poultry; specials by the Southdown,
Hampshire and oxford Sheep Record
Association for exhibits of pure-bred
, sheep they respectively champion; and
the American Angora Goat Breeders
Association special for the best flock
Of registered Angora kids.
In the cattle departments the money
consideration for specials is the great
est and the classification most exten
sive. The American Shorthorn Breed
ers' Association and the American
Hereford Cattle Breeders Association
have each donated $3.50 for pure bred
cattle of these respective breeds, one
half to be given in open competition
and one-half to cattle owned by Ken.
lucky exhibitors. These offers were
made on condition that the State Fair
management would set apart 81. 900 in
premiums for each of these breeds
which was done, thereby making a
total Of $50 for each breed. This is
the largest amount ever offered for
either Shorthorns or Herefords at any
state fair or exposition south Of the
Ohio river, and perhaps EQUALS the aR-
gregate prize money at any exhibition
In America this year with the excep-
ton OF the national breed shows. The
Polled Durham Association of Amer.
ca renews its offer of 800 in special
prizes for Polled Durhams. The
American Aberdeen Angus Breeders
Association, for the first time In sew
eral years. comes forward with a very
liberal offer of 5000 in specials for its
breed. AS a very gratifying innova-
ton in the prize list. the Dairy Cattle
Department contains some valuable
specials. Through the generous lib
erality of the Holstein- Friesian Asso-
citation OF America, the State Fair
management has been enabled to dou-
BILE the amount of prize money for this
dairy breed and to place its classif-
cation almost on q par with the Ter