The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1909-01-01

colts, seventy-six hogs, ninety cattle.
sixteen sheep, and twenty Angora
goats were entered in different class
es to compete for prizes. A well built
haIf-mile track furnished fine racing.
10 the amusement of the three thous-
and or more people who crowded the
grounds daily.
When 1t is remembered that a num-
Der Of the horses racing were not in
cluded in the list competing for priz-
es, and that those at the fair. repre-
scented a small number of those bred
In the county, the showing is indeed
a wonderful one in the live stock line.
The thoroughbreds, standard bred
and grades of the different breeds
shown in this county mark a page in
the selection and improvement Of do
nestle animals that the whole state
should be proud of.
None of the animals on exhibition
were prepared for show purposes. bat
were driven in from the pastures and
put in pens on the fair grounds. A
few of the exhibitors were: II. H.
Whitworth, Hiawatha Lake Farm. Jer-
sey cattle and Duroc hogs. His ex-
hlbit was a inc one.
Palmetto Park Farms, Shorthorns.
graded cattle and other stock, captur-
ing between thirty and forty prizes.
Alfred Aver, registered Holsteiu
cattle, every one a beauty.
Edwards Bros, Berkshire hogs and
other stock.
William Gist. horses, cattle and
hogs.
Capt. S. r, Pyles, horses and farm
products.
William DeHon, hogs and farm pro-
duce.
J. D. McDufy, horses, hogs and
farm products.
Marion Farms, horses and Jersey
cattle.
F. G. Sampson, herd Of Jerseys from
Mcintosh.
This list made from memory, IS
very imperfect, and does not do jus
tice to other exhibits Of equal excel
lence. The poultry exhibit was ve-y
large, fine and well arranged, and the
milk goats of DR.. J. c. Boozar attract
ed much attention.
Marion county's fair, from every
view point, was a grand success, al
the more remarkable because it was
financed and furnished by individual
contributions, and in bringing tosetl-
er the many things that made IT 21eaE
/ it would be unfair not 10 mention the
fact that the colored man played his
white neighbor a close second.
Such colored men as George Giles
J. D. McDuffy, Prof, Wiley. Perry Ed
wards and a score Of others put III
a negro exhibit hard to beat, and ROB
ably not to be equalled by the negroes
of any other county in the south.
Unique in the history of county fairs
was this one in Marion. Advertised
by the management to hold three
DAYS, it was so good that the people
insisted on a fourth day. On the
fourth day Miss Virginia Sistrunk
| ten years old, drove her fathers high
! grade trotting stallion around the
| track at A clip that would try th&
nerve Of a man of thirty. This is
Marion bred horse, raised on Mr.. Sis
| trunks farm, and has only been han
died sixty days, but tire little LADY
held him to his trade, and in the hal
mile didn't let him make a bobble.
In holding the fair these vide
awake people have shown they pos
sess a land flowing in milk and honey
Deople with brave men and beautifu
/ women who meet and mingle by the
thousands in four days Of merry-mak
ING with not a drunk, not a fight, no
cross word TO mar the happiness o
the happiest people under the sun.
Bv bringing TO the fair in Jackson
vile the same grand exhibit, thes'
good people can place before the eye
Of tbous ands Of hOme-seekers th'
prospects and promises of the land Il
which they live, land fairer and bet
fer than | have told you, or better Ia
+bSD 7 am able TO tell.-Allan Rodg
ers in Times-Union.