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Show j THE TERRITORIAL FAIR. j Fine Exhibition of Stock. ! j The attendance at the Fair yestcr- day was light, yet more visited the : place than on Thursday. Articles lor exhibition arrived from various parts of ihe Territory during the previous pre-vious night, and all day, even up lo the time uf doing, gxxls were coming in. At nine o'clock tlie stock exhibition oiK'ticJ. and throughout exceeded by far anything seen here before. This department is far ahead of any other in the Fair. Four classes of hotves thoroughbreds, thorough-breds, roadsters, draft, and all work were on exhibition, and each class was well represented by valuable and handsome animals. The improvement improve-ment in horses for the last year is, perhaps, more noticeable than in any other one kind of stock: and the interest in-terest taken by gentlemen in all parts of the Territory in this branch of improvement im-provement is gratifying to the public. . The horses are from various parts of the Territory. The exhibition of horned stuck was also better than it has been at any previous Fair, both as regards numbers num-bers and quality. Durham and Devon De-von full bloods wen- the predominating predominat-ing features, and superior animals of each breed from calves to four year old bulls were on show. There were also some line graded stock. Too much cannot be said or done m lavor of stock raising. The sheep could scarcely be excelled iu any country. Merino, Cots wold, Lincoln, Leicester and Improved Kentucky, full bloods, and some crossbreeds. An interesting sight in this department is a couple of Angora goats, tlie property l'resident B. You ng. The principal breed of hogs on exhibition ex-hibition was the Chester White, although al-though there were' other breeds; and their huge proportions entirely du away witti the idea of hogs running races, or jumping four loot fenets. Fowls Brahma, Cochin, China, Black Java, and other breeds of hens, and ducks, geese and turkeys were well represented. Some time during this day the premiums will he awarded ;wid t 4 o'clock this evening tlie stock Fan-will Fan-will close. |