Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1912-09-07
w. S. Corsa, of Whitehall, Nl., Will Have Horses and Swine at the Tr.State
 Fair September 23.2S.
CARRIES MAMMOTH TENT FOR
 QUARTERS.
It Is Said to Be the First Time Ina. a Show of This Magnitude and Char. acter Has Been Undertaken
 in the South.

There will be one feature of the Fri State Fair at Memphis this year whicl, will prove of special and absorbing n- terest to fair visitors. One of the lead ing stock breeders of Illinois, man who had the nerve to pay $10,000 for ] st.l- lion to head his stud of Percherons and the ability to sell d hog for s5,5oo, is coming to the fair with an exhibi. unique ill thu annals of fal: history in the South.
 The exhibitor is W. S. Corsa, of White hall, III. He will have a train of five cars filled with the best stock from his l,20o-acre breeding farm, and consisting of twenty Percheron stallions a four horse team of 1,sO0pound mares to wagon, which will be revelation to fair visitors, lot of pure bred mares and two carloads of Berkshire hogs
 The large and interesting exhibit will be housed in tent 50 by 150 feet, and especially designed for the purpose, and cared for by neatly uniformed attend ants.
 Arrangements will be made for rep resentatives of the press to have quar- ters in the tent if they wish.
 A space will be allotted and the tenn porary office will be equipped with tele phones, chairs, tables and everything needed
 Bigger Stock Is Needed.
 Mir .COrsa recognizes the need for larger and better farm horses in tue South, and he believes that the best way to convince the people of this section of the value of the large horse and to relieve them of their prejudices will be to make practical demonstration
 He is making the trip at his own ex- pense and without any bonds from the fair people or any one else. It is just way of his to do things different from other men.
 The four-horse team of 1,s0O-pound mares will be brought for exhibition pur poses principally, but they will be used for all of the hauling and heavy work incidental to establishing the tent and carrying the feed and doing the heavy work. The continual exhibition of high priced brood mares in the work of which lhCS dIC Sh pnOiS lS4 cA poCCcu tO pIOFC attractive feature of the fair. The exhibition of Berkshire swine will be another strong feature He will have two full carloads of swine of the highest type of the registered animal, and they will represent the development which he has brought about during years of spe ciali2ation and scientific breeding He Lives on His Farm.
 The acumen of Mir. Corsa in paying $1O,OOO for the Percheron for the head of his stud has already been demon. strated by the fact that he recently sold fifty-fve head of brood mares at an average of more than $7OO each. Most of these were colts of this horse.
 MT. Corsa is fully aware that there is little demand for the Percheron horse in the South at the present time and his visit is principally a much needed mis- sionary expenditure, and it will cost him a large amount of money to put it on
 He recently purchased Berkshire boar for $1 ,O0O, and then spent $500 advertis ing him and had number of expert judges to pass on his points. The result was that the swine sold for $5,5OO. 4 1 is not thought that man who deals in such animals and in such large sumt would undertake an exhibition that would fall short of the expectation ol the most exacting.
 Mir. Corsa differs from most American breeders in that he has accumulated $ fortune from the stock business and has not made his money in other branches and then taken up live stock as hobby
 He lives on his farm with his animals and gives them his personal attention He will be at the tent at the Tri-Stat, fair grounds from the day the fair open' on September 23 until September 2s when it closes.