FAIR REPORTS. 
(Continued from page 678.) 
NEW YORK STATE FAIR. 
FORTY-SIXTH ANNUAL EXHIBITION. 
(RURAL SPECIAL REPORT.) 
Large entries: bad weather: large lire stock 
display: splendid horse show; Short-horns 
and other breeds for the dairy; “honors 
easy ” on Holstein-Fries!a ns; goad words 
for other breeds; grand exhibit of sheep; 
Merinos; South-Downs; Shropsh Ires; Hamp¬ 
shire*; Cheviots: a poor swine show , but a 
splendid poultry display. 
This session of the State Fair opened at Utica 
on Thursday, September 23, with larger en¬ 
tries and worse weather than for many years. 
There were 3,623 entries catalogued, but these 
did not. include the 1,200 entries of fruits and 
flowers. 
Of cattle there were 605 entries, of which $4 
were Short-horns. 94 Devons, 132 Ayrshires, 
100Holsteiu-Fric.sians.I43 Channel Islanders, 15 
Brown Swiss and 12 Norfolk nud Suffolk Red 
Polls. The entries of horses numbered 395, of 
which 17 were Clydesdales, 40 Pereherons, 40 
carriage and coach horses, and 100 roadsters. 
Sheep filled their entire section and overflowed 
into the hog pens,there being 312 entries, com¬ 
prising 23 Leicesters.44 Cotswolds, 24 Lincolns, 
39 South-Downs, 91 Shropshires, 11 Hamp- 
shires, 8 Oxfordshires,31 Cheviots and 240 Mer¬ 
inos. What the sheep over-ran the hogs fell 
short, in numbers, as there were only 171 en¬ 
tries, 34 of which were Large Whites, 39 Small 
Whites, 3s Poland-Chinas, 19 Duroc-Jerseys, 
28 Berkshiresand 12 Essex. Five hundred and 
ninety-eight chickens cackled, 22 turkeys gob¬ 
bled, 25 geese squalled, and 59 ducks quacked, 
making a perfect babel, while 111 pigeons, 25 
rabbits and 17 dogs and puppies, by their od¬ 
dity aud autics kept a constant crowd of ad¬ 
miring youngsters about them. 
So full was the horse department that every 
stall was occupied. Stone Hall was convert¬ 
ed into stabling, and acCOinmodatio Rg for 
mauv others had to be built outside. mitli, 
Powell & Lamb showed a full half of the 
Clydesdales, while M. W. Dunham was the 
importer or breeder of a very large proportion 
of the Pereherons. These two classes are 
monsters in size, ranging from a fully half ton 
to eighteen or more hundreds, and while they 
are valuable for heavy city uses aud for cross¬ 
ing upon the lighter aud more active tnares 
of the country, the pure-breds are too heavy 
to be popular with American farmers for or¬ 
dinary farm uses. There were also some very 
fine horses in all the other classes, even down 
to the diminutive Shetland pony, only fit for 
a play-thing for the little ones. 
Several ideas suggest themselves as one 
studies closely the cattle on exhibition. While 
the Jerseys led all others in numbers, yet with¬ 
out any booming or fuss the Ayrshires crowd¬ 
ed them closely, being ouly 10 behind. While 
Holstein-Friesians were third in number, the 
Devons and Short-horns are both coining rapid¬ 
ly again into prominence, and the time may 
not be far distant when a milking strain of 
Short-horns may lead all others. As I have 
talked with prominent dairymen here from 
diverse parts of the State, I have been im¬ 
pressed with the good words unanimously 
spoken in praise of the Short-liorn and its 
grades for dairy use. 
Among the Holstein-Friesians the herds of 
Smith, Powell & Lamb of Syracuse, and of 
F. C. Stevens of Attica, are most prominent, 
aud the great bulk of the premiums go to one 
or other of them. In the one is Netherland 
Priuce aud in the other C'onstantyn as lead¬ 
ing bulls, both of which have been illustrated 
in the Rural. In three-year-olds the former 
firm won first on their bull “ Prince of Ar¬ 
tis;” in the two-year-olds the latter got the 
blue ribbon on “ Henry of Maplewood.” 
Clotliilde is shown in a separate tent as the 
largest milking cow- in the world, having giv¬ 
en 26,021 13-16 pounds of milk in a single year. 
By her side stands Albino, with a record of 
18,484 13-16 pounds as a two-year-old. 
In Jerseys there was a sharp competition 
and the premiums were considerably scattered, 
though T. R. Proctor got the lion’s share. 
The Devons and Short-horns had many ad¬ 
mirers in the crow d, aud well they might, for 
no more beautiful animals exist than the red 
aud comely Dovons, and the Hhort-borus (111 
the eye of every lover of a good roast. 
The Norfolk aud Suffolk Red Polled bull, 
“ Rupert,” four years old, took first premium, 
and pleased all who saw him. In fact, he was 
a fine specimen of a Short-horn bull minus 
the horns. I can see no reason why, as these 
animals become better known, they should 
not become popular, for they have many of 
the best points of the Short-horn, and must 
prove profitable feeding animals. 
Of course, the American shepherd’s ideal 
sheep is the Merino, aud though we now have 
no boom on this breed, yet half the sheep on 
exhibition are of this class. Among the ex¬ 
hibitors were Davis Cossit and John P. Ray, 
both away up as breeders, and both have some 
very superior sheep and heavy shearers, and 
claim that abundance of wrinkles and grease 
is inseparable from fineness of staple aud 
heavy weight of fleece. There- were on exhi¬ 
bition three rains from W. G. Markham’s im¬ 
portation of French Merinos bred by Baron 
Foon Homeyer, of Pomprania—one, three 
years old; aud two, two years oil. They are 
very large, exceedingly strong in the legs and 
with very compact fleeces of short-staple, fine 
wool, very free from grease and yolk. It 
is worth the while of our breeders to experi¬ 
ment in using this as foundation stock in the 
breeding up of a mutton-and-wool-producing 
breed. The long-wools were represented by 
Cotswolds, Leicesters and Lincolns: but none 
of these breeds has ever become popular, and 
I doubt if they ever will, as they are not 
adapted to our methods of keeping in large 
flocks. Among the South-Downs were the im¬ 
ported rams No 10 and No 10 Royal Shrews¬ 
bury. by J. H. VVarreu. The former was im¬ 
ported in 1885 at a cost of $814—the largest 
price ever paid for any sheep brought to this 
country. To my mind, the latter, which was 
imported this year, is by far the better animal, 
being fuller in the shoulder and ham, and in 
every v.ny the better model. 
The 81; opshires shown were very good aud 
were ini': vo r with very many. 1 notice, 
though, that they are more uneven than the 
South-Downs. This may be because dilYereut 
bloods have been mingled in their make-up, and 
because proper care has not in all cases been used 
in the selection of breeding animals. There is 
a future for this breed, and the wise breeder 
will be very careful from what animals be 
breeds, and liow they are coupled. There 
were only a few Hampshires shown; but some 
of them would compare favorably with auy to 
be found. These sheep with their large bodies, 
strong constitutions and very black legs aud 
faces, should be very valuable for crossing upon 
native ewes for breeding early lambs There 
were some very good represented s of the 
Cheviot sheep from the hills of tha name in 
the south of Scotland They are handsome 
sheep of the middle-wool class and with their 
beautiful white faces and long, slim ears, cap¬ 
tured the hearts of all Scotchmen present. 
The swine exhibit was much below what 
could be expected in the Empire State, aud 
what few there were were about equally divid¬ 
ed between the Large Whites, Small Whites, 
Berksbires aud Poland-Chinas. The little 
roly-poly Essex, and the representatives of 
the opposite extreme, the Duroc-Jerseys, were 
in about equal numbers, and only a dozen 
each. The Bubal’s contributor. Col. Curtis, 
showed the bulk of the Durocs, and is to be 
congratulated on what he is doing with them in 
the way of shortening their noses, aud reducing 
the size of their legs and ears. He bids fail 1 in 
a few years longer to make a very presentable 
pig of them. 
The show in the poultry department is much 
the largest and finest ever seen at a State 
Fail*. The large hall is crowded from end to 
end and from the ground to as high as the 
coops could be piled. In chickens the Ply¬ 
mouth Rock, if numbers tell, is the favorite, 
with Wyandotte second, and White Leghorn 
third. I saw r many of the Rural’s good 
friends among the exhibitors, and can only 
wash each one might have taken as many 
prizes as he wished. 
( Concluded, next week.) 
NEBRASKA STATE FAIR. 
(RURAL SPECIAL REPORT.) 
Weather favorable; a fine horse exhibit; tin- 
due prominence of speed horses; a large 
cattle exhibit ; honors divided between 
Short-horns and Hereford *; fine grade 
hberdeenvAngus <:til. res ; Poland-Chinas 
ahead among swine', small display of 
sheep ; a large poultry show: a poor fruit 
show ; an objectionable contrast. 
The Nebraska State Fair was held at Lin¬ 
coln from Sept. 10 to 17. With the exception 
of some light showers and a threatening moru- 
ing on “the best day,” the w r eather has been 
all that could be wished. Large crowds have 
been in attendance and the managers have 
been as successful as they deserved. There 
cannot fail to be a nice cash surplus over ex¬ 
penses. The entries before the opening day 
wore such as to give the belief that the display 
in nearly all departments would be better than 
ever before, and during the exhibition this 
fact was quite the common remark. 
Of horses the exhibit wus good, while some 
animals were of marked excellence. Several 
enterprising Western breeders were repre¬ 
sented with some of their best stock, and tho 
contests for 6 rst places were warm. The grand 
sweepstakes for the best stallion among draft 
breeds was easily won by the three-year-old 
Shire stallion Gallileo, owned by the Import- 
ng Draft Horse Co., of Lincoln. This stallion 
also won the sweepstakes as the best stallion 
in his class. The Normans were out in force, 
but most of the specimens were too young for 
substantial honors in tl > show ring. These 
horses are apparently tb favorites with farm¬ 
ers. I have but little to say of the speed 
horses. I do not believe in them, or sympa¬ 
thize with the prominence given them. The 
effect of racing stock is demoralizing upon 
real progress; but as long as they will draw 
great crowds they will be in favor with the 
average fair manager. There is need of an 
educated public sentiment upon this point, 
and it needs thoughtful men to lead as teach¬ 
ers. Those at the head should aim to promote 
the interests of the visitors and not produce 
excitement. I have noticed that a large part 
of those who attend State fairs go for the fun 
aud excitement; while industrious farmers 
sta}' at home, because, as they say, it will do 
them no good, so they cannot afford it. 
Over 300 head of the different breeds of cat¬ 
tle were in the stalls. The Short-horns and 
Herefords were best represented, and each was 
about equal iu numbers. Tho Short-homs car¬ 
ried away the grand sweepstake prize for best 
bull of any breed, aud the Herefords for best 
lot of five animals. Popular opinion was in 
favor of the Herefords in that they were much 
superior iu average excellence. Some of the 
Short-horns were very fine, while others were 
coarse and rough. The Jerseys were well rep¬ 
resented, but were in favor only with those 
wanting family cows. The Holsteins were 
here in numbers, but could not attract atten¬ 
tion from the beef breeds. A few Devons 
were on the grounds, aud the herd of seven 
head shown by R. H. Payne, of Ohio, took all 
the best first premiums,and were interesting in 
showing what this breed can do. A part of 
the cattle exhibit deserving more thau mere 
mention was the four grade Aberdeen-Angus 
calves belonging to Mr. A. W. Nelson. The 
grades were by their mothers, which were com¬ 
mon natives,and were a decided improvement. 
Mr. Nelson lias 34 grade calves from his Aber- 
deen-Angus bull, and all are polled, although 
some of the mothers have the largest of borus. 
In form, too, the calves bred closely after the 
Aberdeen-Augus type. A good lesson as to 
what could be done with our scrub stock could 
be learnt from this exhibit. 
About an average number of hogs were in 
the pen3, and there were about the usual num¬ 
ber of each breed with possibly the exception 
of the Berksbires, The Poland-Chinas were 
strongest iu numbers aud, also, iu popular 
favor. The only objection I heard to them 
was that they were a little too sluggish in 
running after feeding stock. 
But few sheep were on the ground, and it is 
surprising that, with the broad Western rang¬ 
es to support them, there are not more of these 
useful animals. 
The usual display of all kinds of farm ma¬ 
chinery and vehicles was to be seen. The 
Baker Barb Wire Co., one of the firms that 
pay a royalty to the Washburn, Moon Co., 
made its style of wire on the grounds, and 
always drew a crowd. A new thatching de¬ 
vice also attracted attention. 
The poultry exhibit included 1 -hi entries, and 
the competition has, I think, done much good. 
It is to be hoped the society' will provide more 
convenient quarters another year, and recog¬ 
nize this industry in a way fitted to its mag¬ 
nitude. 
The display of agricultural products was 
fine and well arranged. Exhibits of their 
special products were made by several coun¬ 
ties, Dundy County showing “ sod crops;” all 
kinds of vegetables and many grasses and 
grains were displayed and tastefully arranged. 
This county is in tho far western part of the 
State and in the center of what but a little 
time ago was called the “desert," Now its 
settlers are sanguine of its becoming the rich¬ 
est of farm lands. 
For a State which has taken national hon¬ 
ors, the horticultural exhibit was poor. Many 
exhibitors were slack in arranging their work. 
Apples are small this year, and the display 
was not us fair as usual. 
Art Hall presented the usual entries of mu¬ 
sical art, fancy work and pictures. I think a 
sad mistake was mudo bv the managers in ad¬ 
mitting groceryiuen and others in this build¬ 
ing. A beautiful picture would meet the eyes 
on one hand, aud a display of canned goods on 
the other. On one side of the aisle were mu¬ 
sical instruments and music; on the other free 
chews of tobacco attracted a larger crowd. 
But, all in all, the fair was a very good ob¬ 
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