The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1909-08-29
EXHIBITS OF FARMING.
Every Temp crate Zone Product
to Ee Shown.
ROBERT GLENK IN CHARGE

Colonel Charles sehuier VIII Give This
Feature at the State Fair His per
sonsi Attention-Msny interesting
Features viii BE Given.
The agricultural exhibits at the
State Fair of Louisiana, which will he
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 il
doing from the farmers standpoint,
and even the-most up-to-date and mod
srn farmers did not themselves real
lie the great variety of products
which this state produces until they
saw them all gathered at the Exbosi
ton hall at the State Fair In preceding
years.
Colonel Charles Schiller. commits.
Eioner of agriculture and immigration.
gives this feature of the State Fair
his personal attention, and at the con.
elusion OF last years State Fair. said
that either of the four parish exhibits
contained a greater variety of prod
ucts than everything shown at the
Illinois State Fair the year before
This shows what Louisiana can do
and all visiting the state Fair will see
this fact Illustrated by the products
themselves.
Robert Gienk. superintendent OF the
State Museum. has been named as su-
perititendent OF the Exposition hail
for this year he having served in a
similar capacity last year. and givihs
eminent satisfaction to both the State
Fair ard the hundreds Of exhibitors
who showed their products.
Mr. Glenks experience in the State
Museum has given him training with
special attention to detail and through
his efficient management none Of the
exhibits are IN dancer Of being lost
or mislaid aaf The exhibitor Is ags1irtH
he will got his entry back home i"
excellent eeud ton, whether It be a
pound of butter or a bale of cotton
La the agricultural depaftmer'
everything raised on the farm I.
shown and the farmers take a sDet,R
pride In tfffug to produce the highest
class article ard IA tbs manner carry
of the blue ribbon as well as the eess
prices offsred by the State Fair arr
state board OF agriculture and The
many special premiums offered b
seed honee4 and Shreveport mer
chants
Iii a1ttstton to the exhibits of farm
and garden produces the state exhibit
which will be under the direct super
vision OF Professor W. r. Dodsun Q
the state experimental farms, vii
prove in interesting and highly In
stfuettyH feature IN the Exposition
hall
Net only will this exhibit occupy {
greet nnace and show what is beini
Asslse with every kind of farm life Il
pouiaiana. as proved BY scientific an
practical experiments. but the work
Ing nf the nest which prey on yege
table life and the best way to comba
the insects will be- shown in the STATE
exhibit
The parish exhibits show what eael
parish Is doing Ia diversified farming
while the corn contest will mark thu
great progress being made by thu
planters of Louisiana in the develop
ment Of this most important and rap
Idly increasing crop OF Louisiana.
In agricultural exhibits the stat,
displays ether features OF farm lif'
and work In Louisiana shovt that TIL
state is making the most ranid prog
ress of any in the South. Re1uest
for space reservations ALREADY Feeeiv
ed By this department indicate tina
Exposition hall will this year be taSet
to its full capacity and Louisiana vii
be ia POSITION to shoW the visitor whe
wealth she erJeys. with her balm'
climate and fertile soil.