The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-07-19
AN EXHIBIT THAT Is EXPECTED
TO PLEASE STATE FAIR
VISITORS.
NEWEST IMPLEMENTS SHOWN.
CATCHES THE FARMERS EYE AS
1T Is THIS THAT BRINGS
WEALTH.
PROVISION FOR ACCOMMODATIONS
More Extensive This Year Than II
Has Heretofore Been-BuIdinSs
and Tents.


nesota state fair, to be held at Ham
line, Mimi, Sept. to II, 1897, will prove
the most interesting feature to the
visitors from out of town. This de-
partment bears the same relation 10
the entire state fair as the farmers
machinery does to his occupation. To
the improved machinery of the present
day the farmer must look for his prof
it's, and he is as keen to note the ad-
vancement made as is the expert III
any other line. At the exhibitions of
the various agricultural societies, the
new implements invented from year to
year by the manufacturer are general
ly to be seen for the first time. This
is the main object the farmer has in
attending these agricultural shows. He
is, without doubt, interested in the
fancy stock and the industrial arts,
but, as he looks to his machinery to
produce the crops which bring the
wealth which enables him to indulge
in the fancy stock and the comforts
of his home, it is in the machinery
branch where his interest is mainly
| centered. Although the changes made
during the past five years have been
the previous decade, they have been OF
sufficient Importance to require as we'll
as attract his attention. The change
from hand planting to the use of ma
chinery was made many years ago,
but the improvements in this machin-
cry have been more marked as the
years progress, and it is at the state
! fairs that the farmers have been ena-
bled to mark the Improvement in corn
! planting machinery, potato machinery
threShing machinery and more recently
IN plOWS. The interest displayed IL
this particular was well illustrated IN
the Minnesota state fair OF 1896. by the
vast numbers always constantly to be
found surrounding the exhibits of those
who have embodied new ideas in their
various machines. Surrounding the
new corn harvesting machine, tbs
novelty in grain drill, the high lift
sulky and gang plows, the improved
fodder cutting machinery, the most re-
cent grain cleaning machinery, as well
as the new ideas in road machinery,
nay presses, ETC., was always to b.
found a crowd of interested agri-
culturalists plainly attesting the inter
est which attaches to these implements
of their trade
The Minnesota State Agricultural So
clety has been more generous in its
provisions for the accommoda ton of ex-
hibfting manufacturers in the machine
ry line than any other similar society
in the West. Three large sheds rooted
over and f1oored afford commodious
quarters for such as have not seen fit
to erect buildings of their own. The
private buildings on the ground put up
by those Interested in the manufacture
and. sale of this important line cover
even more ground than the public
sheds erected by the fair associa ton,
and the group presents an imposing
appearance, in marked contrast to the
bare ground offered by many other
Western agricultural societies, on
which the exhibitors Of agricultural
machinery are privileged to erect a
tent. This generous spirit on the part
of the Minnesota board Of managers
has always been duly appreciated by
the exhibitors in this line, and their ap-
probation shown by a vast line of i'm
plements on exhibition. This will I'M
doubtedly be the case in 1897. Appli-
cations have already been received
from a large number of manufacturers,
and their interest seems to be fully
equal to that Of previous years. Many
Of these exhibitors are those who have
visited the fair annually during many
years past, and who have erected plants
in certain places which have become
recognized as almost their own, the
necessary fixtures to make their ex-
hibit permanent
The interest in the vehicle branch of
the machinery department exceeds that
OF any previous year, although in this
line the managers have not been as
generous in the erecting of buildings
as in the regular line of farming ma
chinery. The single carriage building is
to be filled by the same exhibitors who
occupied it last year. and where, in
fact, many of them have been found
for many years In addition there will
be on the ground this year, as last,
many tents containing the lines of
those unable to find accommodations
in the carriage building The number
of tents will exceed those of 1896. and
the line of goods shown will comprise
the finest grade as well as the medium
and more common grades.
Several years ago the manufacture
ers of harvesting machinery combined
to prevent the exhibition of this line OF
goods at any fairs in the United
States, and year ago the threshing
machine manufacturers entered into a
similar agreement. Notwithstanding
this fact, the applications for more
space have always far exceeded the
accommodations to be afforded in the
buildings, and the open field has been
annually covered with certain line OF
goods which are Usually operated in
the field in practical use. These lines
include such machines as corn husk-
ers, fodder shredders, baling presses,
hay sings, etc, and the exhibits in
these lines will be extensive this year.
Since wire fencing succeeded in a large
degree to the place formerly occupied
by board fencing, many machines have
been invented for building this class
Of farm fence, and large line of
these machines in operation are al
ways to be found at the agricultural
society exhibit. The line of windmills,
pumps and well-drilling machinery has
increased each year, and the group of
whirling mills Is very attractive
feature of the department.
All things considered, the farmer as
we'll as the dealer in the agricultural
implement line will find much to in
terest him at the 1897 show. The usual
accommodations will be afforded to
manufacturers in the shipment of goods
for exhibition, and the result will I'M
doubtedly be that the machinery de-
partment will afford an instructive as
well as interesting feature for the Wis
iting crowds.