The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1889-07-20
Farmers Duty Towards County Fairs

Farmers Duty Towards County Fairs.
The Anne Arundel Advertiser has an excel
lent article on county fairs which is as applica-
BILE to Baltimore county as it is to that county.
From it we make the following extracts:
'The county fair is peculiarly farmers in
stitution and should be patronized in liberal
manner by every one interested in the agricul-
tural advancement of their section. There is
no other institution better adapted for diffusing
knowledge of the resources of county, and
aiding in the development of those resources.
There is no better method of disseminating
knowledge of improved farming methods or
labor saving machinery, and the advancement
which may be made in our calling when
science, guided by practical information, shall
come to our assistance. There is no cheaper or
more effectual medium of advertising our pro-
ducts to the outside world, or of business men
and manufacturers advertising their wares to
farmers.
"There may be seen the great variety and
the excellence attained in the products of our
manufacturing industries the wonderful
achievements and exquisite results Of our
growing mastery of the applied sciences; the
surprising advance apparent in all mercantile
enterprise; the admirable progress in methods
of husbandry, and the general amelioratlon
of the condition of the laboring classes the
vast improvement in our herds of live stock
and methods of caring for and rearing. farm
animals, as we'll as the vast wealth of mineral
and material resources of our country.
at is safe to assert that fully one-half the
marvellous progress Of other agricultural sec
tons of our country during this generation is
attributable to the educating influences of ag-
ricultural fairs.
sit is clearly the duty of every farmer to do
what he can to advance the interests OF his
county and of his calling by helping to make
the county fair success. No once should hold
back or be niggardly because only paltry sum
is offered as prize, or say he cannot afford so
much time and expense for so little money
Be public-spirited in these matters do some
thing for the veal of the industrial fields in
which you are laboring, and take the benefits
that will accrue to them as well as the honor
there will be for you if you win the prize as
part of your reward.
are not proud of the result and do not feel well
paid by the consciousness of the contribution
YOU have made to the march Of agricultural
''No one should let the fact that he may
think he sees abuses at the fair he cannot
countenance, stand in the way of patronizing
it. If doubtful practices are allowed, every
farmer, instead of standing aloof and critics.
ing adversely, should hasten to join 1t and
withstand them until by the efforts of himself
and his friends he can crush them out. Fairs
are public institutions and educators, and no
law-abiding, morality-loving citizen can afford
to withhold his patronage from them, or stand
mutely by and allow them to teach erroneous
ly, create wrong impressions, or sow seeds OF
vice in his community.
"Iet everybody remember that the managers
can only Furnish the opportunity for making a
display the farmers themselves are response
BILE for the display actually made. If they
of discreditable exhibition. Let each one
then feel that upon him and her hangs the
success of the fair and go to work to make 1t q
success"