Southern planter: devoted to practical and progressive agriculture, horticulture, trucking, live stock and the fireside . a lesson from the Berkshirebreeders. The exhibit of George Souers & Sons, consisting ofPercheron, Belgian and German coach horses, was an-other great attraction. His splendid four horse team ofimported Percheron mares made a striking show. H. C. Groome has the dis-tinction of showing the firstSuffolk Punch at our Fairsand the stable boy was keptbusy leading out SudborneDon to the admiring throng. Bagthorpe Sultan, Cham-pion Hackney stallion of Eng-land and America, and unqu
Southern planter: devoted to practical and progressive agriculture, horticulture, trucking, live stock and the fireside . a lesson from the Berkshirebreeders. The exhibit of George Souers & Sons, consisting ofPercheron, Belgian and German coach horses, was an-other great attraction. His splendid four horse team ofimported Percheron mares made a striking show. H. C. Groome has the dis-tinction of showing the firstSuffolk Punch at our Fairsand the stable boy was keptbusy leading out SudborneDon to the admiring throng. Bagthorpe Sultan, Cham-pion Hackney stallion of Eng-land and America, and unques-tionably the showiest horse inVirginia, evoked thunderousapplause when on Fairfax, his owner,was complimented on thishorse at every turn. Space will not permit de-tailed comment on the numer-ous exhibits which they justlydeserve. The Cattle, Swine,Sheep and Poultry Depart-ments occupied every inch ofspace allotted to them not-withstanding the fact thatgreat extensions had beenmade to these depart-ments. The entries were more MANAGER than heretofore and the quality of the stock. 1052 TEE SOUTHERN PLANTER. [November, higher and the competition fierce in numerous was especially true of the Red Poll cattle. Proba-bly no more beautiful or interesting sight of the kindwas ever seen than when three entire herds numberingabout one hundred animals were in the ring at one believe the largest crowd of the week witnessedthe judging in this class, and many pronounced it thefinest exhibit in the whole show. Dr. H. B. Arbuckle,himself a Red Poll breeder, placed the ribbons and de-clared the exhibit simply great. The King Corn exhibit (mentioned elsewhere) heldthe attention of thousands of farmers at all times andthey seemed no less interested in the farm productsdisplay, which contained nearly everything grown on thefarm. This Department showed an enormous increaseover previous years. The Draft Horse Department invariably catches thecrowd.
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