The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1916-08-17

Cattle Dept. IS entries
Hog Dept. "a entries
Sheep Dept. no entries
Poultry Dept. 800 entries
Woman's Art Dept. $50 entries
Grains & Grasses 80 entries
Vegetables IS entries
Among the registered horse
exhibitors will be found the
names of the following breeders;
Warren Moore, H. V. Whitaker
F. S. Waters, w. H. Wicks, H.
r. Russell, John Kippen, Neil
Mclean, P. ]. Ferguson, Joe
Crowder, and Mouse River Bel
>gian Horse Company. Some very
fine specimens were shown, and
an unusal good bunch of colts.
Duncan Beaton, J. B. Russell,
C. e. Whittteron and Max Sicard
were prominent among register
ed cattle exhibitors:
A glance at the awards in the
Hog department will disclose the
names Of most of our former
exhibitors in this department,
viz: R. M. Trimble, C. E. Whittier
on, H. R. Russell, and w. R. Din
woodie. u
Our Sheep department was a
minus quantity. No entries
shown.
The poultry department was
the best ever. Over 300 entries
shown. The Bottineau County
Poultry Association was well
represented.
We believe without exagger-
alton, that our Woman's Art ex-
hibit, was equal to anything in
the state of North Dakota.
There were not as many entries
as last season, but the quality
was simply immense, and as
usual competition was keen, and
many a creditable piece of fancy
work, or other article failed to
find a place among the awards.
We believe that as a whole
the fair was of educational ad-
vantage to our patrons and ex-
hibitors. We believe that the
judges were all competent and
placed the awards purely on
merit and without discrimin-
alton. Bottineau County demon
strated beyond a doubt that it's
resources are unlimited along
the line of producing livestock
Of every description, as we'll as
everything else of an agricultural
nature. What we want is more
of our citizens who are awake
to- our possibilities, and to the
advantages of a real good County
Fair, to take advantage of our
fair as an advertising PROPOSE
ton. W. understand that Mr.
Moore made some enviable sales
of some of his fine Belgian hor-
SEES on the fair grounds. There is
no good reason why this end of
the fair cannot be enlarged
upon to the extent of making
our fair more Of a sales propo-
sition for our livestock breeders.
There is every reason to believe
that many fancy prices can be
obtained for stock if the pro-
position were but properly adv
ertised in advance of our fair.
With our present method of
travel which brings people from
all parts Of the northwest to our
fair why not start the propo-
sition out with our 1917 fair?
This brings us to another
proposition needing attention,
viz: the stall question. It was
more apparent to some of us this
season than ever, the necessity
for some good exhibit barns for
our livestock. We believe that
our exhibitors are entitled to q
better place to exhibit their
valuable horses and cattle than
our present stalls afford. It Ger
tainly looks out of place to see
q fine bred animal worth many
hundred dollars stuck into q
dingy rattle-trap Of a stall not
worth the name. It was found
necessary this season to enlarge
our Art Hall foor space, By 50,
doing crowding out our poultry