Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1908-09-18
EXCELLENT STREET FAIR
Exhibits Can't be Beat
Entertainment is
Fine

The biggest and best street fair ever
held in Little Falls, is now on in full
sway. The town is elegantly
decorated with electric lights, which
makes a most pleasing appearance at
night. The city band will discourse
music continually during the fair,
and today will be re. inforced by the
Sauk Rapids band Of twenty seven
pieces.
The exhibits are way ahead of any
previous year, both in quality and
number. Exhibits like corn, etc.,
that it was thought, on account of
the weather, would be poor, can't be
beat anywhere. The fruit display of
apples, plums and crabs are most
excellent, as well as the vegetables.
Small grain, clover and grasses are
represented in good quantity and
quality. A number of good entries
are in the cattle and horse exhibit.
There is a much better display this
year in poultry, and among them are
some that have been prize winners at
them Golden spangled Hamburgs,
white and silver lace Wyandottes
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ducks and geese.
There is corn Oh exhibition fourteen
feet high, with fine large ears carrots
eighteen inches long, cauliflower,
cabbage, potatoes Of all varieties, and
vegetables, such as cabbage, squash,
pumpkins, onions.
The canned fruit exhibits are not very
large this year, but there are some
excellent exhibits.
The display Of Herman Busse Of
Two Rivers, is worthy of special men
tion. He has at the fair 116 varieties
of vegetables. Among the new stuff
grown by him this year are Spanish
celery, earth almonds, Of which the
grass is fed to cattle, and the nuts
which grow at the roots are for feed
ing hogs, Brazilian -four corn, Ger
man coffee plant, which produces
bean which is used for coffee, white
cucumbers, chicory, cocoanut squash,
winter musk melon, which does not
ripen on the vine, but which can be
kept through the winter and ripened
by the heat Of the stove in three or
four days, when desired.
Mr.. Skoog of Swan River, as usual,
has a fine show OF apples and plums,
in different varities, also some concord
grapes, which however do not ripen.
Frank Pedley Of Little Falls town
also has very nice apple and plum
display, considering that the trees
bearing the fruit are only three years
old.
H. Colombo brought in bunch Of
peanuts, which ale the real thing.
The entertainment features are all
that could be desired, They are two
performances daily, afternoon and
evening. The program includes trick
house and comedy acrobat, a Combina-
tion act, the Willard single act, the
combination aerial act, and the
balloon is to 60 up daily. An agree
ment has been made with the balloon
concern, that the balloon mast go up
or no pay-so they will without a
doubt put on this act daily.
The rest room in the KieWel block
on Broadway, is winner, and is
being used generally.
A. J. Mcclure, who is the superin-
tendant of the experiment station at
Grand Rapids, gave an excellent talk,
which furnished much valuable food
for thought to the farmer who wishes
to be progressive. His address was
we'll received
Mr.. Mcclure laid especial stress
on soil, manuring OF same, dairylng
and cooperation. He stated that
failure was the history of farming in
the United States. In the western
part Of the state, where there is good
clay soil, farmers who received the
land from the government for almost
nothing are poorer today after 20 to
80 years work on it then when they
first went into farming. Not because
the soil was not good, but because the
farmer had no system. The present
farmer has no excuse for failure,
according to the speaker, as he can
easily get the right system. Both the
United States government and the
state OF Minnesota are conducting ex-
perimental stations, one of the latter
of which he is himself superintend-
ing. A political change does not
effect the farmer a particle, said the
speaker, but it is how he goes about
to farm. Hundreds and thousands OF
dollars do not necessarily make good
farming, it is all in the farmer, if he
has no system to it, he generally
fails Neither does the farmer need
hired labor. Mr.. Mcclure stated that
II the farmer farmed just what him
self and family could, he would come
out much better in the end then hir.
ing labor and farming larger tract.
It Is the getting up early in the morn.
ing and working to late at night that
counts He stated that he would much
rather have the services of the twelve.
yearold boy and girl for dairying al
the experimental farm than the
average hired man. On sandy soil
, the poor farmer will last about four OF
five years, and on clay soil about
twenty years.
: He repeated farming is not in the
soil, but in the man. At the ex,
perimental station Mr.. Mcclure stated
that he grows as good crop as il
grown on the best clay soil. Tht
speaker stated that when he tool
charge of the experimental farm IN
acres were under cultivation and there
were only three cows. He did not se
about clearing part of the remainder