The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1910-10-14
STATE OFFICIALS
PRAISE The FAIR
ATTORNEY GENERAL McDOUGAL
HIGHLY PLEASED WITH CANYON
COUNTY FAIR.
Idaho Corn a Revelation and Livestock
Best Ever Seen In IdahO-ExhibltiOn
Great in Every Feature, Being Far
Above Expectations.

WEoAG III Every reAGuEeS DeluB rhE
Above Expectations.
The Canyon County fair comprised
one of the most wonderful collections
Of fine exhibits OF stock, fruit and
agricultural products of all kinds ever
shown in the west, according to At
torney General D. C. McDougal and
Assistant Attorney General o. M. Van
Duyn, who returned to Boise Satur-
lay after having spent Friday in in
specting the fair.
Il hope that Canyon county will
)ring her exhibits to the Intermountain
fair" said Attorney General McDou-
gal, because they will greatly streng-
then Bosses big show. l have been to
| good many fairs, state and county,
9th east and west, but never have l
seen finer lot of exhibits, taken by
md large, than Canyon county had.
rhe stock exhibit was magnificent, and
he cattle, horses and hogs showed well
in every strain and breed. The stand
ards are very high and l was amazed
ut the kind of animals Idaho farmers
are producing. 1t is enough to make
IN Idaho man proud he is a citizen of
this state.
LAS for the fruits, including apples,
pears, peaches and plums, want to
say that l never saw any larger or
6ner favored or more beautiful speci-
mems in my life.
"But the greatest surprise of all was
the corn. l refused at first to believe
hat corn had been grown in Idaho. /
pretty nearly got into a fist fight with
big brawny farmer when laughingly
charged that the corn had been raised
in Iowa and shipped here by express
for show purposes.
Say! That big farmer turned on
me and he said: Look here, mister,
maybe you are tenderfoot, but just
to show you we are on the square out
here, I'll take you down to my farm
and show you corn just as high and
just as fine looking and with just as
big ears on it as this corn in my ex-
hibit.'
We'll, after / had roamed around
through the exhibits and had seen
lots of corn of that kind, became con-
xyinoad tho4 Idaho hoe N oraak R,,k,,ua
as corn state, and realized that the
farmers in other parts of Idaho had
been neglecting fine crop in passing
up corn.
Corn means fat hogs and hogs
mean money. think It is wonderful
that such corn can be raised in Idaho
considering the long, cold spring ant
short season that we have had"
General McDougal laughed hearth!
in telling a story about John Nicholas
an old friend of his, who owns ;
ranch down Caldwell way now. Blu
who used to live near Malad. 1t SEEM
that Nicholas just about cleaned tn,
fair in several classes, winning firs
prizes and sweepstakes galore, hi
yearlings and two-year-old Belgians
Jersey bulls and vegetables taking blu
ribbons. His sister, Mrs. Metcalfe
made almost as many winnings witt
her fine jams and jellies and she bea
the whole show on honey.
When General McDougal saw Mr.
Nicholas, his old Malad friend wa
so swelled up over his triumphs at tn
fair that ne didn't know Daniel C.
but the attorney finally got the farme
to come down to earth. Then 1t devel
oped that the prize Belgians, which hat
swept the horse exhibit, had descend
I'D from an Indian cayuse and GOV
pony. This proves the effect of blu
Hood on a low strain.
According to General McDouga
when Nicholas lived at Malad, he own
ed a cayuse and a COW pony, and Fred
ericksOn's fine Belgian, the first thor
oughbred brought into that country
years ago. Generation after genera
ton of high class breeding has raise
the standard notch by notch, until to
day the descendants OF that Indian cay
use and COW pony wouldn't recognize
their poor ancestors. General Nc
Dougal says that 1t would be hard
End any finer looking Belgians in tn
west.