Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 236, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 October 1910 — Horse Show Notes. [ARTICLE]

Horse Show Notes.

It is worth repeating. Don’t let getting beat discourage you. You may win out next year. Wonder why some attention could not ba paid another year to dairy stock. This is becoming a great dairy country and we should encourage the raising of the best. Possibly other things might be added to diversify the fair. It is certain that some free attrations will have to be provided for another show, also. Ruth, the little daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Cyrus Rice, who won the riding contest for girls, is quite expert with horses. She is 9 years old and has the misfortune of being a mute, but she is thorougly capable of managing a horse, and, mounted on a big sorrel, she made him go all the gaits and was graceful and self-composed throughout the contest. She attends the Indiana school for the deaf, for which place she left Sunday. Her father, who lives in Bentofi county, 6Ms miles south of Remington, was one of the exhibitors at the horse show who attracted a great deal of attention and figured as a close cpmpetitor in everything in which he made entries. He brought over 12 head of horses and mules and won a number of premiums. > Mr. Rice is a good horseman and a good all-round farmer and the showing he made was first class.

Michael Ringeissen’s fine grey imported Percheron team, for which he paid $1,050 only a few months ago, was given the second prize in the team contest. One of the mares has been nursing a colt and was not in the best show shape and the other might have been a little fatter. They are a fine team, however, but not so tall nor in as good show condition as the team with which Cyrus Rice took first prize. No farmer could attend the horse show last week and not feel the necessity for and the desire of improving his stock. Good stock costs but little more to breed, no more to raise and is worth more to keep and vastly more to sell. These stock shows inspire better breeding, better care of animals and have a general and permanent benefit in the community.

The following suggestion for a county fair is published just as offered and looks good to us, if suitable grounds can be procured: “A very noticable feature of the horse show last week was the number of horses that were shqwn by boys and young men. This shows the interest that our young people are taking in farm life. With our ypung men taking an active interest in live stock exhibitions, four of our boys at Lake Winona agricultural college, three at the agricultural college at Purdue, one at Illinois agricultural college, considerable interest being taken in the rural schools in agriculture, and the rising interest in land production all over the county, is there not a bright outlook for the rural life of "the county? Would not the time be ripe to re-establish the County Fair and have a first class exhibition of all farm and live stock products, together with plenty of clean, healthy entertainment?”