Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1905-08-09
GETTING READY FOR FAIR.
Things That Materially Contribute
to Successful Exhibit.

Only about forty days to the time of
our county fair As superintendent of
one of the divisions in the west end of
the fine agricultural hall ! wish to re-
quest that farmers who eau, bring to
the fair the usual large number of en-
tries OF apples, plums, grapes and other
fruit. For several years as superintend-
ent of the fruit department have given
my ten dollars TO two ladies who assist
ed me and in fact, did most of the work.
and that Is the reason the Vernon coun-
ty fruit exhibit last year beat in arrange
ment, in beauty and in size the exhibits
in seven other fairs around MS OF
course, feel proud of the work done by
my assistants and hope to improve on it
this year il my friends the fruit grow
ers, will bring in the apples, plums, etc
My friend, Geo Fisher of La Fargo,
is to have charge of the agricultural ex.
hibit and ] ijespeak for him liberal ex-
hibit Of all farm products. Mr.. Tenney,
last year, started in to decorate his de-
partment with corn, cane, broom corn,
etc and probably had the finest display
so far in the history of the fair. Proba-
bly, Mr., Fisher would like to adorn his
space with fine sheaves Of barley, rye.
wheat spelz, alfalfa, soy bean, clovers.
displays of noxious weeds, and in fact
everything grown on the farm except
fruit. | would suggest that farmers
having good bundles Of wheat barley,
etc, save q few for Mr.. Fisher TO decor
ate with in case he need them.
This is every farmers fair and every
little help to make success of 1t. I
have small opinion Of any man or wo-
man pvbO - fn 4,Ytf N ~ n opkay ON,
ly into the fair and get ont dollar.
The managers of all fairs are constantly
running mp against men and women so
eager to take out of fair more money
than they put in. Remember the fair
is not a money making scheme and the
society is in debt hundreds of dollars.
The officers are working hard to make
ends meet and every man ought to help
them We who work in the floral hall
want to make it little more beautiful
than ever before in all its departments.
We who have worked there have al
ways had to work hard, hut we have
had most enjoyable time We have
dined together in the building and have
tried to help each other in our work.
Do you know that lot of artistic work
can be done in arranging fruit. flowers
hA2A AdA IA EiARAAGhe Ah l4buAH kltl
you see the Missouri corn palace, the
cotton king, the Iowa corn palace and
dozens Of other works of art wrought
ont of farm products Was there not as
much genius displayed in their creation
as in painting some Of n e pictures over
in the art gallery?
Every one will learn tyi.h. regret that
Mrs. G. J. Smith has declined to serve
as superintendent Of department. She
was one of the most efficient am agree
able workers the association ev, had.
think voice the sentiment Of very
enlploye in the building when / ate
that we wish TO decorate every depa e
ment as beautifully as possible W
wish to compete with the race track,
the stock show and the Pike, and have
our building little ahead of all these.
So bring In the exhibits and the stuff TO
decorate with--corn, cane, barley in
bundles, asparagus, mountain ash, gold
en- rod everything that artistic women
can weave into forms of beauty.
q. v, PORTER.