Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1909-1911, 1909-09-17
VISITORS VIEW
SHEEP AND HOGS
WHITE FLOCKS III STATE FAIR
PENS ATTRACT HUNDREDS
EVERY DAY
EVEN Big P0RKERS PLEASE.
Producers Of Wool and Pork Fill Long
Sheds on Grounds East
ern Edge.
EXHIBITS BEsPEAK PROSPERITY.

MILWAUKEE, Wis, Sept 15.-The
third day Of the Wisconsin state fair
opened under more favorable auspices
than did The two preceding days Wealth
er Indications early in the morning were
more favorable and by O'Clock, when
the sun made it's appearance. street cars
and other conYeyanccs were crowded
with visitors headed toward the grounds.
They didn't intend to miss mach, despite
All The rain and mud and clouds i'll the
category.
Meantime thc noon attendance is es-
timatcd at 1900. lis the biggest of
the 1909 days yet recorded. Milwaukee
DAY and Taft day, yet to come, will
probably exceed it. But, considering the
skies and the recent rain and other gyru-
tons # weather. the attendance proved
more tLau satisfactory. To what pro-
portions il may swell before night is
predetermined and depends upon the
skies. The estimate made by state fair
officials ranges anywhere from $4,000
to 10000.
GOV Davidson Arrives.
al 10 o'clock this morning Gov. James
o. Davidson. accompanied by a party of
state fair officials, arrived upon the
grounds IN automobiles. He was met by
members ~ Ga" state board of agricul-
ture and escorted in tour about the
grounds. Several persons knew of his
presence. Most Of the molly multitudeS
consumed frankfurters regardless As
for the governor, he unhesitatingly
doomed his state and his fair.
4 cannot recall better fair nor one
that seems to more universally please
1t is a striking exhibition of WiScOn-
sins progress, agricuturaly and indus
triaily. ! am more than pleased with it."
Visitors View Sheep and Hogs.
In pens that range through five big
barns are the sheep Of Wisconsin. In
other pens, equally numerous, are the
states prize grunters.
They include domestic looking ewes
that fondc tiny lambs; they include, too.
small, squcaling bacon porkers and
huge grandpa hogs.
The sheep and hog exhibits on the
state far grounds are proving a magnet
that draws crowds. Farmers come to
the barns because sheep are a growing
Wisconsin product; they come because
hogs are a staple and are making the
Wisconsin farm one Of wealth.
Children come because their interests
run naturally to sheep and lambs And
bigger city folk come to wonder over
the ever growing proportions that the
hogs is attaining.
Probably not one of the thousands of
tilif'IN tlidt NAVE. ana VIII yer, WISH the
fair fails to visit the hog pens The
hog, in his general dissemination and his
general utility, has claSsed almost with
dairy cattle in the agricultural affairs of
Wisconsin. He is probably even more
generally an adjunct to the Wisconsin
farm! than the COW. He ranges its corn
stubble IN summer, he ranges its or
chards in the fall; he occasionally crops
its clover fields and it's alfalfa. He goes
nutting as regularly as do the farms
boys, And he converts his gleaningS into
cash. He lays on pork and by and by
his squeaJ ends in a packing house. And
it is said that there everything but That
squeaI is made use of
Sheep in the North
Wisconsin's sheep are spreading
through the northern counties. Each
year the University Of Wisconsin is tell
ing more OF their value on cut over
lands. Farmers i'll the north are PROV
ing, by test, that there is no means to
clearing brush and making possible the
filling of soil that has been OvergrOWn
with shrub and sapling through ages.
They tell. on the fair grounds, of the
acres that have been eaten down by the
sheep that are now being bred for the
prize ring. They explain that they crop
away leaf and stalk until what was a
hopeless tangle gives way under their |
lit has been argued that moth
tAS HIS Nbtit tiitl Z TOW tAit NitdAi IlS tllt |
north than the sheep imported into those |
So state fair exhibits range from the !
fine weolCd Delaine Merino to the heav- |
lest Lincoln and Cotswolds, bred for |
mutton They include the American |
Cheviot. Suffolk Down. !
and Oxford Down and the |
Leicester. Lincoln and Cotswolds. Prac- |
tically every breed known in Wisconsin |
is represented. Each of them is unique |
in its interest
The sheep industry has not been a !
large one as Wisconsin livestock goes.
Ruf state fair breeders are confident
that in Il few years 1t will be claSsed
with the important phases of agricultu-
raj activity
The University of Wisconsin focks are
among the interesting exhibits shown.
The fiocks Of George MckerrOw * Sons
of Pewaukee are others that are at
tracing attention. The MckerrOw sheep
will he taken to the worlds fair at Seat
tie Immediately after the close of the
Wisconsin state fair.
Dairy Men Organize.
At meeting in Secretary John NJ.
True's office this morning a Wisconsin
branch of the National Dairymen'S
union was formed and officers elected as
follows:
President. T. II. Scrihner. RoSendaIe;
vice president, Kenneth Luchsinger, New
Glarus; secretary, J. q. Moore, Madi-
son: treasurer, Hugh s. Bare, Madison.
The new organization has the backing
of the organized dairy interests of the
state and its chief object is the curtaii-
ment of the oleomargarine industry of
the country. Much time was spent this
morning discussing the attempts which
the cleo interests are making To have
Congress repeal the tax of 10 cents per
pound on colored oleomargarine. and it
was decided to join in the countrywide
fight of the dairymen to have the ma
tIonal legislature retain the present tax. p
Freight rates on carload lots of butter