Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1880-09-15
Next Weeks Fair.

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We are glad to know that the Fair
to be held in this place next week,
promises to be tho most successful Fair
ever held in this county. The farmers
of our county, seem at last to have be-
come alive to the Importance of these
annual meetings. The agricultural Fair
has become one of the institutions of
our country, and there is no agricul-
tural community anywhere that is thirty
ing and prosperous which has not its
agricultural Fair, and they are now
regarded not so much as means of
paying premium to the man who has
the best horses, or the best cattle, or
the best farm products, as medium
through which the farmer may az
quaint himself with the latest improve
ments in his business anu of letting
the public know that what be raises,
whether of stock or farm products,
that are worth buying. The best of
everything raised on farm, whether
of stock or products, are brought TO the
Fair and placed on exhibition. So
that the man who wishes to improve
on any of the different branches of
farming, can do so intelligently, and
you know where to get what you want
when you are ready to buy. If you
wish to improve your horses, the men
who raise the best horses will be at the
Fair. If you wish to improve your
cattle, the men who raise the best cat.
tie will be there II you wish to buy
farm machinery, the enterprsing deal
ers in farm implements will all be there
and they will all have their animals
and implements, &c on exhibition, SO
that you can judge Of the merits of
each and make your selection intelli-
gently. But perhaps the greatest ben
eft to be derived from these meetings
is the interest they awaken among
farmers in their own business by COM
pairing results one with the other IN
competition for the premiums. If
man believing his animal or article is
Of superior quality, enters for compe-
tition and finds on comparison that an
other Of the same class is superior to
his, then his ambition is aroused to
produce better article O: animal next
year. lie is repaid ten fold for his
trouble and loss of premium in the first
instance. 1t is only by comparison of
results obtained by intercourse with
those engaged in the same pursuits,
that we can make Improvements in
any direction The world is continu-
ally advancing. Everything is con-
stantly undergoing change; breeds of
animals run out varieties of grain or
Vegetables deterioratc the conditions
of the soil changes and if we continue
to piod on in the old ruts doing things
the same way year after year we will
soon find ourselves far in the rear.
As we said before, we are glad to see
our farmers are becoming interested in
these meetings, and if properly con-
Quoted, they cannot help but be pro
ductlve Of much good in the way of
developing and improving the agricul-
tural interests of our county, and Of
awakening among the farmers spirit
of Improvement which shall result in
placing our county as an agricultural
county among the first in the State.
We would then say to the farmers,
that as it is you who are Immediately
benefited by these Fairs. You should
by all means encourage and give your
hearty support not only by your pres
ence, but by assisting III the manage
ment, and by bringing anything you
have which is meritorious and placing
it on exhibition at the Fair And we
would say to the business portion Of
our community that this being purely
agricultural county, your only depen-
dcncc is on the farming interest aud
if these Fairs are the means Of making
what the farmer formerly raised and
sold for one dollar worth two dollars
with the same trouble and expense,
he has Just that much moro money
with which 20 buy what you haVo to
sell 30 that you have an interest in the
Fair and it should receive your hearty
support.