Speedy Horse Prizes

New York, 1895

PROGRAM FOR THE AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY'S JUNE MEETING.

Purses that Should Bring Fast Stock to the Track — Premiums for Home Made Wine Abolished — Income from the Ives Pool Bill — Judges Appointed

The board of managers of the agricultural society held a meeting at Mineola on Saturday. President Mott presided. Director Van Nostrand was absent.

The application of the managers of the Children's Home at Mineola for the use of the grounds for holding a fair the first week in September, was granted.

Treasurer Bacon reported that he had received from the state the sum of $1,506.02 on account of the Ives pool bill.

The horse committee were directed to secure a starting judge for the June fair.

Captain Dayton and Samuel Willis were appointed track judges for the first day, and Jessie Carll and D. J. Jones for the second day of the June fair.

The secretary was directed to obtain proposals for furnishing music for the June fair.

Judges for the June fair were appointed as follows:

Vegetables, Alexander Baxter, Frank Morrell, Charles Oakley; fruit, Isaac Coles, Nicholas Hallock, John Duryea; flowers, C. H. Allen, H. Kipperman, John Taylor; implements, Martin Southard and James C. Hendrickson.

A letter was read from the president of the Queens County Woman's Christian temperance union requesting the society not to offer premiums upon home made wine or wine jelly in order that there may be no encouragement given for the making or exhibiting of the same at the fairs of the society. The request was granted, and those articles will be expunged from the premium list.

It was decided to engage five Pinkerton men and two detectives for police duty.

The twenty-ninth summer exhibition will be held on the grounds at Mineola, Wednesday and Thursday, June 12 and 13. The sum of $2,729 is offered in premiums, of which $1,925 is for horses; $392 for flowers; $262 for fruit; $86 for vegetables, and $55 for farming implements.

Entries in all departments excepting horses close on Saturday, June 8, and in the horse department June 1. The premiums offered in this department are equal to those of any previous June fair. There is one $400 purse, one $300, one $200, four $150, three of $100, one of $75 and two of $25 each.

The special premiums are as follows:

Premium No. 3, $375 — Mares, geldings or stallions, either owned or bred in the county, with no record.

Premium No. 4, $100 — Single road horses, either owned or bred in the county, with no record better than 2.50.

Premium No. 5, $150 — Single road horse, open to all with no record better than 3.00.

Premium No. 6, $150 — Single road horse, open to all, with no record better than 2.45.

Premium No. 7, $150 — Single road horse, open to all with no record better than 2.40.

Premium No. 8, $200 — Single road horse, open to all with no record better than 3.30.

Premium No. 9, $300 — Single road horse, open to all with no record better than 2.25.

Premium No. 10, $400 — Single road horse, open to all with no better record better than 2.20.

Premium No. 11, $100 — Foals of 1891, mares, geldings or stallions, best 3 in 5, open to all.

Premium No. 12, $150 — Foals of 1892, mares, geldings or stallions, best 3 in 5, open to all.

Premium No. 13, $100 — Foals of 1893, mares, geldings or stallions, open to all.

All entries should he sent to Thomas H. Bacon, secretary of the horse department, Jericho, Long Island, or at the grounds, Mineola.


Good News for Workingmen

The news that the United States net and twine company of Whitestone is to again start work at their factory will be hailed with satisfaction. The factory was shut down several months ago because of the depression in business, throwing a number of hands out of employment.

—The Long Island Farmer, Jamaica, NY, May 10, 1895, p. 8.