Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1913-05-01

"lSCOIlSll ) SpleHulu LIVESTOCK Op
portunties were demonstrated to hun,
dreds of people who attended the re.
cent livestock exposition held at the
stock pavilion of the College of Agri-
| culture. Through the cooperation OF
! the Wisconsin Livestock Breeders as
ISOLATION, animals valued at over
100000, representing some of the
leading American and British prize
: winners. had been assembled Each
breed, except the horse, was repre-
sented by only three carefully select
ed animals. In this way confusion
| by mixing the good among the poor,
| as is often the case in competitive ex-
| hibits, was avoided.
BY far the most striking exhibit
was that representing the horse in
! dustry The great Percheron stallion
Institute, winner at the Olympian
| Horse Show, London, England, at
tracted much attention. Shown with
! him was strong class of other rep
resentatives, hardly less notable, of
this most popular breed of draft
! horses. Among the Clydesdales was
Lady de Bath, winner at livestock
shows in Shetland and Scotland, and
! champion of the Iowa and Minnesota
| state fairs for 1910. The great King
| Norman, first in his class at the In
teruational Livestock Exposition for
! 1911-12, and a splendid example of
these popular Scottish horses, also
made many friends for the breed.
English horses were represented by
the Shire stallion Dan Patch, winner
| of the International for three success
! sive years, by Bollan Lady, winner at
/ the Royal Agricultural Show of Eng
land, 1911, and the Duchess of West
/ minister, champion at the Wisconsin
state fair 1912. The Belgians were
represented by Bouquet de Sue, cham
pion at Wisconsin state fair, and the
mares Lena and Marietta.
The exhibit of light horses was also
of high quality. Trotters, saddlers
PAGERS, hackneys, ponies and others
attracted large crowds of admirers.
Among the dairy cattle shown was
Jerry. the grade COW with a record OF
over 729 pounds of butter fat, which
led all Guernseys in the recent Wis
consin COW competition and leads all
grade COWS ever tested. The Guernsey
bull, Glenwood's Combination 9Th
winner at many fairs for several
years, was shown, as we'll as COW
that had just completed an A. R. rec
ord of Cos pounds of butter fat. Most
notable among the Holsteins was the
dam of a former worlds champion
butter COW, while a Jersey with g
record of 691 pounds, a Brown Swiss
COW credited with 597 pounds, and the
Ayrshire COW winning the blue rib
bon at the recent Waterloo Dairy
show, were also shown.
A booth bearing the legend, ''lnsur
ance for Dairy Success" contained
pens Of dairy calves of the delicate
age" (less than one month old, the
"skim-milk age" zone month to six
months), the "oft-neglected age Gun
der twelve months), and the breed
Ing age" Fifteen to twenty months)
Directions for the breeding and care
of calves of each age were conspicu
ously posted.
The magnitude of Wisconsin's
dairy industry was emphasized ir
large posters which showed that thu
value of the annual output of golC
and silver Of Alaska, California anC
Colorado was less by 100000 thar
the value of Wisconsin's dairy prod
ucts for each year.
Rarely is such a collection of prize
winning sheep gathered at one exit
bition as was shown at this eXposi
ton. The champion Oxford eve anC
ram of America the champion Cots
void ram at the 1912 International a
Chicago. the champion Hampshire
eve and ram at the 1912 Wisconsin
state fair. prize winning pens of grad'
and pure-bred Shropshire wethe
lambs, besides representatives from
the famous University of Wisconsin
, flock made up an exhibit seldom
= equaled. This showed the state
adaptablity for sheep husbandry.
, That the dairy COW has not entire
, ly superseded the steer was prove
by the exceptional showing of tn
, beef breeds Two blue ribbon Abel
5 deem Angus cattle from the state fai
circuit, a grade Hereford steer an
t two purebred heifers sired by Inter
: national prize winners, grade Shor
r horn heifer. and a prize winning bu'
and heifer from the Internationa
were ample proof that Wisconsin ca
and does raise profitable beef A
E interesting feature of the beef exhibi
D was steer marked so as to sho'
t the location of the different cuts {
( meat. The dual purpose cattle wer
< rnnrnsented by the grand Chamnin