Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1916-08-29
THE MARATHON COUNTY FAIR
AT WAUSAU, SEPTEMBER So
Believes in Keeping Alive the Original
Purpose of Such Annual Exhibitions
To Further the Interests of Far
mers and Stock Raisers.

I
mers and Stock RaiSers.
| Instead of degenerating into free
for-all money grabbing affair, featur-
! ing tawdry and questionable side
shows and "thrillers," the committee
is working to make profits for their
visitors, instead of fleeing them of
ready change and leaving them no bet
ter off than if they had not attended.
Besides the annual number of splen-
did exhibits of farm crops and live
stock raised in this county, all point
ing the way to greater prosperity, the
officials have secured a most emphatic
and forceful special exhibit. This is
the Profitable and Improbable Farm
Animal Exhibit, arranged and dis
played in cooperation with the Wis
consin Live Stock Breeders associa-
ton.
This exhibit has already made
decided impression at two fairs in the
state, Reedsburg, Sauk county, and
Boscobel, Grant county. That it will
equally please the thrifty people of
this locality is certain. A slight hint
of what the exhibit is follows:
Under big tent there will be dis
played good and a poor animal of
every class of live stock. They will
not be pure breds; they willnot be show
animals. They will be merely ordin-
airy farmers stock, showing just what
can be accomplished with proper man
agement, care and feeding and also
showing the results from lack of these
things. All the meat animals were
bought on the open market at Chi
cago, and their market value tells
surely what profits they produce. The
dairy animals were secured from COW
testing associations where accurate
production and feed records have been
kept. The horse exhibit is something
that every farmer can produce with
the proper effort.
The exhibit at the county fair will
carry for comparison the following
animals:
Beef exhibit-One choice steer, a
'baby beef" age 16 months, weight
104O pounds, value $1O9.2O at $1O50
hundredweight.
Another steer, common trough"
age years, weight 92O pounds, value
$3.50 at $3.50 a hundredweight.
Dairy exhibit-One dairy" COW with
1915 yearly record of 1918 pounds
of butter fat, value of butter fat in one
year, $150.75; total feed cost in one
year, $6O.92; total net profit, $S9.93.
Another COW, "boarder" class, with a
1915 annual record of 1865 pounds
of butter fat, value of butter fat in
one year, $49.14; total feed cost in one
year, $45.24, total profit in cash, $3.40.
Sheep exhibit-Three choice native
| lambs, average weight "a pounds,
value $6.40 at $40 hundredweight.
Three common or Gull lambs, aver
age weight, GA pounds, value $5.44 at
| $3.50 a hundredweight.
Swine exhibit-Two prime butcher
| hogs, average weight $50 pounds,
average value $25.13 at $10.05 hun
| dredweight.
Two inferior "skips" average weight
| 1875 pounds, worth $40 each at So
| hundredweight.
Horse exhibit-Two two-year-old
| Percheron fillies, bred and raised at
the College of Agriculture, weight,
1850 and 1850 pounds respectively, a
| type of animal within the reach of
any careful and progressive farmer.
The cost of feed and service fees to
date on both these animals amounts
to $247.0S. No horses of inferior type
are carried in the exhibits.
Every farmer who attends the fair
should see this live stock exhibit. The
men in charge will be glad to make
| explanations.