River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1913-03-06


Dortunties 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
sociation, 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-
scented 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 tar 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 CIydesdales was
Lady de Bath, winner at livestock
shows in Shetland and Scotland, and
champion of the Iowa and Minnesota
state fairs for 1916. The great King
Norman first in his class at the In
ternational Livestock Exposition for
1912, 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 5th,
winner at many fairs for several
years, was shown as we'll as a cow
that had just coninleted an A. r. rec
ord of 658 pounds of butter fat Most
notable among the HOlSteins was the
dam of a former worlds champion
butter COW, while Jersey with a
record Of 691 pounds, q 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.
The magnitude Of Wisconsin'S
dairy industry was emphasized in
large posters which showed that the
and silver of Alaska, California and
Colorado was less by 100000 than
the value of Wisconsin's dairy prod
ucts for each year.
Rarely is such a collection of prize
winning sheep gathered at one exhi-
bition as was shown at this eXposi-
ton. The champion Oxford eve and
ram of America, the champion Cots
void ram at the 1912 international at
Chicago, the champion Hampshire
eve and ram at the 1912 Wisconsin
state fair, prize-winning pens of grade
and pure-bred Shropshire wether
lambs, besides representatives from
the famous University of Wisconsin
flock made up an exhibit seldom
equaled. This showed the states
adaptability for sheep husbandry.
That the dairy cow has not entire
ly superseded the steer was proved
by the exceptional showing of the
beef breeds. Two blue ribbon Aber-
deem Angus cattle from the state fair
circuit, grade Hereford steer and
two pure-bred heifers sired by Inter
national prize winners. a grade Short
horn heifer, and prize-winning bull
and heifer from the international
were ample proof that Wisconsin can
and does raise profitable beef
More Wisconsin pork has been a
slogan in this state for some time.
With the bacon breeds represented by
a trio of Tamworths and the lard
breeds represented by Berkshires,
Poland Chinas. Duroc Jerseys, and