Cottage Grove sentinel., May 30, 1912, Image 3

County Fair Factor in Development
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“ Do not overlook the county fairs.
Th-y form the pivot III the develop­
ment of the Northwoatem atates agri-
culturally. They are the «rent clear­
ing houMca for the big land product*
arid live atock «how« ua well ua all
*tatc fuira. ”
Thia la the keynote which l.ouia W.
Hill, president of the Great Northern
Railway haa Hounded and which will he
taken up w ith h vim when the North-
we»t Development I.league meet* in
Seattle in June. Among the henelit*
to he derived from the county fair* of
the «even Northweatern *tatea, Mr.
Hill huiiin up epigruminatically, a* fo l­
low* :
"J . They *tart many peraona exhib­
iting who would never think of mak­
ing exhibit* at the atute fair.
“ 2. They bring the fair sufficiently
near ao that all may attend.
Ladies’ Petticoats
We
have
a
large
assortment of
Silk,
H eat h e r h io om,
Sateen
and
Petticoats
W ash
in
a ll
colors.
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are
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petticoats
made
very
best
and
are
of
the
material
built
to
wear.
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to $ 6 . 5 0
P r ic e s
L U R C H ’S , Cottage Grove
“ 3. They educate the farmers in
attendance along the line* o f their own
greatest needs.
"4. They stimulate effort in the
direction of highest excellence.
"6. They tend greatly to the build­
ing up of the State Fair, both in re­
gard to attendance and exhibits. Itc-
cause of theae benefits the Hrriall fair
ia well worthy o f the aupporl of the
state and o f all actively engaged in
business in the communities in which
| they are held.*' Mr. Hill further says :
“ One reason why msny farmers do
riot exhibit at a state or other large
fair is the apparent hopeleasness of
ever winning a prize, because of the
extent of the competition, coming a*
it does from so wide an area, hut when
the area is limited as it would he in
the esse o f a county fair or even o f a
fair more local than a county fair, the
farmer feels that he is competing
agsinst one of his own class, and,
therefore, when he is the possessor of
a product that he believes to be su-
[>erior, he is encouraged to exhioit the
Hanic. This he can do with little or no
ex|>et!He in placing the article on exhi­
bition, hence if he does not win he
does not feel the pinch o f financial loss
a* he would had he exhibited at the
State Fair. In this way hundreds and
thouands would be led to exhibit who
never would have done *o but for the
opportunity to exhibit at the small
fair.
“ The location o f the smaller fair
makes it ea*ily possible for many a
farmer to attend, who may not be
able, in the meantime, to afford the
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expense incurred in journeying to the
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? State Fair and of maintenance while
there. Such men are content in the
absence o f the smaller fair to stay at
home and therefore they miss the
benefits in educational lines that fairs
W hen v o n w a n t a d is h o f Ic e C re a m , v is it th e c r e a m e r y .
furnish ao effectively by way o f ocular
W hen y o u w a n t a / m u m lo f ^ o o d H o t t e r , v is it th e c r e a m e r y .
demonstration. He is encouraged to
W hen y tm w a n t yoo < l l in t t e r m il k , v is it th e c r e a m e r y .
go to the smaller fair because he
I f y o n h a v e C re a m t o se ll, d o n 't ta il t o v is it th e c r e a m e r y .
knows many of his acquaintances will
be there whom he can meet and he has
If you haven’t a cream separator, be sure and
friends in the town who are glad to
get our terms and prices upon the I)el.aval, ihe
care for him, it may be, during his
stay at the fair.
best separator on the market. And remember
; 1 he Cottage Grove Creamery f
we take cream the same as
payment down gets one.
cash.
A small
If you are a shipper of cream remember we want
your cream an<l that we pay the highest cash
price, furnish the cans and pay the freight.
COTTAGE GROVE CREAM ERY
On Account of the
Low Cost
the comfort and conven­
ience, there’s n o t h i n g
that gives mohe comfort
than
Vudor Porch |
Shades
Vudor
and Hammocks
Get them at
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S E N T IN E L
“ Such fairs are highly educational,
as indeed all fairs are. The farmer
may have concluded that a certain
pnxluct which he grows is about as
good *s can be produced with that line.
As long as he stays at home he be­
comes no wiser with reference to
shortcomings in his work. When he
goes to the fair and puts that product
on exhibition, he finds to his astonish
ment that half a dozen others are
ahead o f him in the competition. He
is naturally anxious to know the reason
why, and in this way he comes to see
inqierfectionM in his methods that he
would never otherwise have seen. In
a hundred ways valuable information
may be obtained. The farmer comes
to know about new and valuable
grains, and he becomes acquainted
1 with the possibilities of attainment in
I growing all kinds o f produce in his lo-
ioality. These are away beyond his
long cherished conception in regard to
these things and he naturally desires
to know the methods by which such
excellence has been attained. He sees
livestock, much better it may be, than
he possesses, and he desires to know
the measures by which such excellence
has been brought about. He finds ma­
chinery on exhibition, better than any­
thing in that line that he has used and
he becomes acquainted with the source
from which he can obtain it. He can
j get such information with less of dis­
traction than would attend the secur­
ing o f the same at the large fair, be
i cause of the many aide attractions at
, the latter.
“ The farmer who becomes a regular
exhibitor at a small fair is almost cer­
tain to become an exhibitor at a large
fair. At the small fair he has received
the stimulus to try and distance all his
competitors. This leads him to study
methods by which highest excellence
tnav be attained. When he succeeds
in his effort at the small fair, his am­
bition leads him to desire to enter a
larger field and ao he enters the large
fair with his product. In this way
some farmers who have pnxluced the
very finest o f products that have been
put on exhibition have been educated
in the line of such production.
“ In no way can support be furnished
so cheaply anil so surely for the State
Fair a* by encouraging the small fair.
The man who ha* attended the small
fair fur year* will not remain content
with that alone. He kriowa that pro­
ducts will come from a wider area to
the State Fair and he wants to see
them. This leads him to attend, and
auch attendance becomes, aa it were, a
habit. He wants to go every yiar.
As previously intimated, the small
fair beeomea a school to the man who
exhibits there. It tends to mulfipy
exhibits greatly, because o f the oppor­
tunity which it furnishes and this
means, in time, a corresponding in­
crease in exhibits and exhibitor* fur
the large fair.
“ The -nail fair then ia worthy of
every encouragement.
State money
given to sustain it is given to sustain
a good cauHe. Chambers o f Commerce
who giv e moral and material support
to such fairs are engaged in a good
work Mnd the same is true o f local
boards o f trade. Even merchants, land
men, business men of all lines and
professional men, are casting bread
upon the waters that will come back
to them, when in a judicious way they
give tangible encouragement to the
local fair. In no way can agriculture
in a neighborhood be lifted to ao high
a plane at so little coat as by main­
taining a county or even a more local
fair in a thriving condition. The On­
tario government haB fairs in every
township and in no place on the con­
tinent has agriculture been more per­
fected than in that province.”
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