The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1909-10-09
OF FARMING.
Every Temperate Zone Product
to Be Shown.
ROBERT GLENK In CHARGE

~ofonet CHdfteS SCnuier Will Give MS
Feature at the State Fair His Per
sonaI Attention-Many Interesting
Features Will Be Given.
The agricultural exhibits at the
State Fair of Louisiana, which will be
held at Shreveport this year from
Nov. to 6. will contain every known
product which is grown for domestic
use in the temperate zone. Former
State Fairs have done more than all
else to demonstrate what Louisiana is
doing from the farmers standpoint
and even the most up-to-date and mod
ern farmers did not themselves real
lie the great variety of products
which this state produces until they
saw them all gathered at the Exposi
tion hall at the State Fair In preceding
years.
Colonel Charles Schiller. commits
sioner of agriculture and immigration
gives this feature of the State Fail
his personal attention, and at the con
clusion of last years STATE fair. sale
contained greater variety of prod
ucts than everything shown at the
Illinois State Fair the year before
This shows what Louisiana can DR.
and all visiting the State Fair will SET
this fact illustrated by the products
themselves.
Robert Clenk, superintendent of the
State Museum, has been named as su
perintendent of the Exposition hal
for this year, he having served in
similar capacity last year. and givins
eminent satisfaction to both the Stats
Fair and the hundreds OF exhibitors
who showed their products.
Mr. Glenk's experience In the State
Museum has given him training with
special attention to detail. and through
his efficient management none of thu
exhibits are In danger of being los
or mislaid and the exhibitor Is assured
he will get his entry back home IL
excellent condition. whether 1t be
pound of butter or a bale of cotton.
In the agricultural department
everything raised on the farm is
shown and the farmers take a specia'
pride in trying to produce the highest
class article and In this manner carr,
off the blue ribbon as well as the cash
prizes offered by the State Fair and
state board of agriculture. and the
many special premiums offered by
seed houses and Shreveport mer
chants
In addition to the exhibits of farm
and garden products the state exhibit
which will be under the direct super
vision of Professor w. r. Dodson Of
the state experimental farms, will
prove an interesting and highly in
structive feature in the Exposition
hall.
Not only will this exhibit occupy .
great space and show what is being
done with every kind of farm life In
Louisiana. as proved by scientific and
practical experiments. but the work
ing of the pest which prey on vege
table life and the best way to combat
the insects will be shown in the state
exhibit.
The parish exhibits show what each
parish is doing In diversified farming
while the corn contest will mark the
great progress being made by the
planters of Louisiana In the develop
ment of this most important and RAP
idly increasing crop of Louisiana
In agricultural exhibits, the stat,
displays other features OF farm life
and work in Louisiana show that thi
state is making the most rapidpro.
ress of any in the South. Request:
for space reservations already receiv
ed by this department indicate the
Exposition hall will this year be take.
to It's full capacity and Louisiana wi,
be In position to show the visitor wha
wealth she enjoys, with her balm
climate and fertile soil.