St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1896-01-10
FAKIRS AND FAIRS
THEIR COMPREHENSIVE is ENDED
IN THIS STATE, SAYS PROF.
SHAW.
GAMBLING AND FAKlRISM
HAVE RUN THEIR LIMIT IN THE
MINNESOTA STATE
FAIRS.
sUPT. GREGG,s ANNUAL REPORT.
1t Contains Scathfng Arraignment
of Old Fair Managements-Sta-
tistics for Farmers, Too.

state fair are given little mercy in the
eighth annual report of the state farm
ers' institutes, which was delivered
yesterday by the printer to Supt ..
c. Gregg, and which will be distribut-
| ed to the farmers of the state who
attend the institutes this year. The
connection between the fakirs and the
state Institutes does not appear at first
glance, but Prof. Thomas Shaw, who
writes of the fakirs, finds a reason
for the association, and it is shared
to such an extent that his paper is
honored with the first place in the
report. Says Prof. Shaw:
when we find a fair loosely cor
Quoted, we have, in this fact, an evil
dence of the low tone of the people.
Where the liquor element is in the
ascendant Oh the fair grounds, it is
| IN the ascendant outside of them.
Where pooling rules the spirit of an
exhibition, we have an evidence of
the power of the damning vice outside
of the same. Where fakirs rend the
air with their deceitful voices within
a fair ground, we are furnished with
an evidence, first, of the willingness
| Of the directors to stain their hands
with revenues derived from deluded
people; and, second, of the Willingness
of a people to be deceived and plum
dered by vagabonds who prey upon
their substance.
An exhibition is an index of the
moral tone of the people. The ancient
Sabbath was respected at the Worlds
| Columbian exposition because the
American people willed that it should
be So
What filter theme, therefore, could
have been chosen as the subject of
the first article in this Farmers In
stitute annual? And since the fair
of 1895 was a clean fair, why should
not the heroism of the men who made
it so be sounded through all the land?
1t is meet that the example of those
men should be held up as a beacon
light to strengthen the weakened
and the timid directors of other fairs
who are fearful to tread upon the SER
penis of liquor selling.
GAMBLING AND FAKIRISM,
lest the resources Of the fair should
suffer.
The value Of an industrial fair to a
country depends first on the character
! and extent of the exhibits; upon the
|
way in which they spend their time
| when in attendance; and upon the
| cleanneSS of the management. It's in
| fuences may be of a character that are
unsettling to that sturdy morality
which furnishes those rock founda lions
upon WHICH men and nations grow
| great.
Is it not strange beyond the power Of
expression that the managers of many
! county fairs seem to think horse race
of more Importance, relatively, than a
good exhibit of horses, cattle, sheep,
swine and poultry? And yet these ami
mails furnish the deep foundations upon
which the great tower Of Minnesota's
| agriculture is to rest in the future.
In the number of people attending an
exhibition, we find our gauge Of the
| good resulting from the same. But the
! idea must not be pressed too far. OF
10000 people who attend at fair on a
| certain day, it may be that 20, 600 Of
! them have come to see great running
race, and 5000 have come to see the
dancing girls from across the sea, or a
| dog race, and the remaining 5000 have
come to see the exhibits. Tell me what
have the 10000 and also the 5000 car
ried away?
| That fair is not clean which tolerates
| the sale of Intoxicating liquors, which
allows gambling in any form in a pub
lie way, and which opens it's gates to
admit the wandering fal<ir, who lives
upon the fruits of plumber, cunningly
taken from deluded people. This
TRIPPLE-HEADED DEMON
is no more present at our state fair.
| Minnesota had a clean fair in 1885,
Men have said that a state fair could
not be made financial success unless
| the triumvirate of liquor selling ,gamb-
ling and fakiriSm were admitted, and
| f1aTT L
but the state fair last September has Civ
en- a black eye to all such sophistry The
revenues of 1895 enabled the directors
! to pay off an Indebtedness of some
| $1,000, to eXpend some 81 800 in improve
ments, and to deposit in the bank a
cash surplus of $4,000"
Then following sketches of the mem
bers of the board of managers who
made the Improvement referred to, de-
tailed descriptions of the fair and the
state agricultural institute, the state
dairy institute and the dairy depart
ment of the institute work.
A horse department, edited by DIR. J.
G. Curryer, of Mankato, deals extern
sfvely with means and methods for con-
trolling horses, and is graphically illus
trated. A long question and answer
department is appended, DR.. R. M.
Dodds, Of Mankato, assisting.
Other special departments are devot-
ed to sheep, swine, poultry, bees, hor-
| ticulture and poultry.
The miscellaneous department in
cludes articles on late autumn pastures,
pastures on reclaimed lake bottoms,
clover in Northern Minnesota alsike
| narrowing corn with horse rakes, sheep
husbandry, corn in Northern Mime
! sofa, peas, rape, rye and mangels.
FATTENING OF SHEEP.
Fattening Of sheep, Prof. Shaw pre-
diets, will become an industry of first
magnitude in Minnesota. While recog-
nizing commendable features in the
present system, it will not bring the
greatest good, he thinks, to the coun-
try on account of the tendency to do
the fattening in the vicinity of the
large cities and towns. The essential
grain food used in feeding is screen
ings Of grain. Grain is fed off the farm
| that should be fed on it to give it the
benefit of the manure. The work now
being done at the stock yards should
not cease, but it would be desirable
if all the sheep reared on the Western
| ranges should be fattened within this
state. 1t would not only provide re-
munerative work in winter, but it would
| greatly enrich the soil. The returns
| would come in when grain is not usu-
| ally on hand to be put upon the mar
| ket, and it would enable the farmer
to feed at a substantial profit screen
ings and other coarse grains for which
but a little return Is received when
these are not fed at home.
An experiment was conducted at the
university farm at st. Anthony Park
with a view to furnish information
ton. Forty grade sheep were pur-
| chased They wera ShrOnShire c,rodoc