Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1912-12-12

there Tuesday tells OF the doings of the
big show to that date:
Lewiston, Idaho, Dec. 1O.-The
change of weather conditions from the
bright sunshine of the last two days to
cold and fog failed to keep the people
away from the second annual exposi
tion Of the Northwestern Livestock as
sociation.
As early as eight CLOCK, an hour be-
fore the first train left Lewiston for
the show grounds, people bgean to ar
rive at the gates. A long train from
the Clearwater branch of the Northern
Pacific brought several hundred visit
ors from the Clearwater country at
$40 a. M; special train from Port
land brought more than 100 from Port
land, Pendleton and Walla Walla at
$3.50; another big special of seven cars
brought 400 from Grangeville and Cam
as prairie towns at 10:45, and, the reg
Northern Pacific added several hundred
more. The town is filled with visitors,
but the people of Lewiston are putting
forth every effort to care for all who
come, and hundreds of private homes
have been thrown open to the visitors.
Expect Good Results.
Every one is enthusiastic over the
success of the show and is optimistic
over the good results to follow the ex-
position. Dean Carlyle of the Univer-
sity of Idaho is especially optimistic,
and in an address to the breeders stat
ed that the future of the livestock in
dustry in the northwest was never
brighter. Dean Carlyle said that out
side Of the sheep all livestock in the
northwest, and especially in Idaho,
show healthy growth in numbers and
quality. He said that Idaho has i'm
ported 5000 dairy cows from the east
during the last year and that one coun-
ty had imported 1900 dairy cows with
in year. He said that several hun
dreds registered stations had been i'm
ported into Idaho in the last few years,
and there had been wonderful i'm
provement, which he estimated at 25O
per cent, in the quality of horses bred
in Idaho.
Begin Judging Fat Stock.
| Judging of the fat stock was taken
up at $3.50 this morning. E. II. Stan
ton of Spokane and E. L. Frazier of
Seattle judged the fat cattle. August
Schroeder of Cottonwood won the first
prize, $500 in gold, for the best carload
of fat steers, with 16 fine, pure bred
Herefords, weighing nearly 1000 each.
B. L. Lemp of Boise, with fine car
load of Herefords, took the second
prize, $l5e in cash.
The third prize, 800, went to the
Jones Land and Cattle Company of
Wisdom, Mont. None Of the Shorthorn
cattle, of which there were several car
loads, won prize.
i Hard to Pick Horses.
The judging of the horses furnished
hard work for the judges and excite
ment for 5000 people who crowded the
big show tent and cheered loudly as
the awards were announced. Two splen-
did bands, the Lewiston brass band and
the noted cowboy band from Grange
vile, added to the entertainment by
playing alternately, and the big audi
ence cheered both bands impartially,
gave three rousing cheers for each
band, for the people of Grangeville,
the people of Portland and the people
of Lewiston, and when yearling colt
from Uniontown was awarded grand
champion prize in the draft mare
class the people cheered loudly for
"the Palouse country, the home of the
best of everything
II 1t was difficult task to pick the
winner among 70 fine stations, and
three judges, Professors Clark of Mon
tana Agricultural college, Carlyle OF
/ the University of Idaho and Monroe
of Washington State college, worked
!, hard. A beautiful dark brown import
! ed English shire stallion, weighing
more than ton and owned by Brown
| & Mood of Moscow, was awarded tht
title of grand champion of all the stal
ions shown.
Black Percheron Reserved.
A handsome black Percheron, ownet
. by Follett & Schooler of Genesee, Ida
4 no, was awarded the title of "reserv'
. grand champion, which position cor