The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1910-09-24
BEST FARM SHOW EVER.
Over $4,000 In Premiums at
State Fair.
GLENK IS In COMMAND.

Selection OF Curator Assures Success.
of Greatest Agricultural Exhibition
Ever Held at Louisiana State Fail
Many Home Seekers Coming
More ParNh Exhibits.
Everything grown on a farm-the
best Of everything, too, will be shown
1T the Louisiana State Fair at Shreve
port this year from the day the fail
opens, November 2, until the day II
closes, November II, and a world OF
premiums will be awarded as a result
Hundreds Of exhibits are to be made
by farmers, Parishes, experimental
stations and clubs and organizations
OF farmers from all over Louisiana
Besides the Agricultural departments oil
several OF the many railroads entering
Shreveport will make exhibits in the
monster new agricultural building that
Is now under course of erection and
which will be finished as one of the
finest In the south in ample time to
get all of the different products arti-
stically and attractively arranged be.
fore the fair opens.
No department of. any fair ever
proves as popular as do the exhibits
from the farm. They do more for the
development of the state and to show
Its resources than anything that could
be shown. Thousands of people will
be at the fair for the first time Many
OF them will be from a distance. II
they can see that Louisiana and this
section OF the country compose one of
the best agricultural districts in the
United States they can be induced to
join the great march TO progress that
Is being made In Louisiana and this
section. The worth OF a state as a
place in which to live depends almost
entirely on that states ability to care
for the people living in IT,, II home
seekers and there will be many of them
at the fair, see that they can get the
best of what Gods footstool has to of.
fer Ia Louisiana, and can raise that
best In large quantities, they will come
to louisiana to live.
All of the exhibits of agricultural pro-
ducts will be housed in the new agri.
cultural building, mention of which is
made above. This building is costing
over $4,000. The police jury OF Cad.
DO Parish, tn which the fair occurs.
gave $4,000 toward the erection of NE
new building and the State Fair Asso
citation furnished the necessary bal
ance to erect the kind of building re.
CURED and which will be an honor to
the state OF Louisiana. Almost any
amount OF space desired can be OBJ
tanned In this building for exhibias.
At the fair of 1909, which, by the
way. was not nearly as large as the
one OF 1910 is to be, there were four
exhibits from as many Parishes. All at.
tracted widespread attention and pro-
badly did their communities as much
advertising as anything that could
have been done. This year ten parish
es have signified their intention OF
having exhibits. Besides there will be
individual, the town and club exhibits
The building will be artistically ar.
ranged. Down the center will be the
corn exhibits from the Boys Corn
clubs and individuals and commercial
organizations. while down the sides
VIII be the other agricultural exhibits.
oSSiuCS iucIc Will DC many QecOf3-
lions and the building will be one of
the prettiest at the fair.
Robert Glenk. curator of the State
Museum, will be the superintendent of
the agricultural division. and this is
almost saying enough, for he Is one OF
the best known men in the state and
Will handle the affair in such shape
that all will be pleased. He installed
the Louisiana State exhibits at the
jamestown Exposition, the Chicago
Worlds Fair and the st. Louis !
Worlds Fair and is more conversant
with that class of.work than any other |
man in the South.
The prizes this year for exhibits
will be exceptionally large, totalIing
10000. This will include S4O0 for !
the best Parish exhibit: 5000 for the |
second best; 5000 for the third and
100 for the fourth. There will also be
$1,000 In premiums for Caddo Parish |
exhibits alone.
The secretary OF the Fair Associa.
Ion will mail you catalogue, premium
lists. rules governing the exhibits and
,ther data relating to them IL you
Will address him at Shreveport.