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Roadsters and the Trotters especially attracted the attention of visitors, and by 
their fine displays of blood and speed added much to the interest of the Ex¬ 
hibition. The thoroughbreds shown by Mr. Simon Ruble alone were valued 
at scarcely less than ten or twelve thousand dollars. 
The Cattle Department was meagrely represented. But for Richard Rich¬ 
ards, of Racine, Clinton Babbit, of Beloit, and A. G. Darwin, of Madison, 
the Short Horns would have been nowhere ; and the same may be said for I. 
S. Newton, of Middleton, and George Baker, of Hustisford, with reference 
to the Devons. Cattle-breeding is not, at present, so profitable a business 
in this State as the raising of sheep and horses, and it would hardly have 
been re.asonable to have expected a very large show in this department. 
The time is coming, however, when the cattle-breeders will have compensa¬ 
tion for their enterprise. 
k: Machinery and implements were there in large number and Variety. 
Sorghum mills and apparatus in operation. Reapers and mowers, seed drills, 
and cultivators, plows, harrows, rollers and bog-cutter8,patent gate’s, hay 
gatherers, hay pitchers, washing machines, clothes wringers, and a multitude 
of other machinery too numerous to mention, were strewn about the Opera¬ 
tive Machinery Hall, to the great comfort of those who were anxious that 
this most fascinating department should rank No. 1. 
Manufacturers’ Hall was respectably filled, though not so well as former¬ 
ly- 
Fruits, Grains and Vegetables were crowded into one large tent; the Fruit 
and Flower Department occupying one half. The fruit crop has been two- 
thirds a failure this year, and on this account we did not expect much of a 
show. The show was fine as to variety and quality, and respectable as to 
quantity. 
Fine Arts Hall was handsomely decorated with paintings, photographs, 
embroideries and other works of art. 
