Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1910-08-12

falling due, or low or high price
prompts you to cut out, you will neve
fail to Remember the Maine" even
Of the entire years entertainment
You will so to it and take the who'll
family with you-not because the fai
needs you, but because you need it
Think of what you'll get if you q,
and what you'll miss if you stay away
Why, you will see all the finest anC
fastest horses in the Great Northwesl
running horses, perfect flyers, trot
ters, PAGERS, three year old colts tina,
can lower the speed record of thirty
years ago, and do it without turning
a hair; you will see magnificent draft
ers worth $500 to 81 900 each; wonder
full Poland Chinas and Chesters that
| will almost make you wish you were a
quadruped yourself instead of biped;
great, big, sleek cattle that weigh
about. and sell for twice as much as
the kind you have at home, and you
will go talking around among the
owners until you learn that it costs
but trifie more TO grow them than
to turn out $50 plug or scrub
steer. You will be surprised to see
how many other places there are in
the state beside ''Way Back" and
how many things the people In those
places can do better than you can.
You will see all the miraculous In
ventions of this miraculous century
machines that can do everything hu.
man except talk-yes, and talking
machines too.
And then after the novelty has
worn off a little, you will begin to
notice people as well as things. You
will unexpectly bump up against one
OF your old playmates from Wisconsin
or New York who is there from some
other corner Of the state with bunch
of prize pigs, or potatoes or pumpkins,
and you will have the time of your
life talking over those dear old boy
hood days will learn who your first
sweetheart married, where they live,
how many children they have, and
turn your face away from your wife
to blush when you learn that she has
named her oldest boy after you. Say,
you can t afford to miss that.
A beautiful custom has grown up
in this cosmopolitan state, of writing
to friends and arranging to meet
at the State Fair. "Meet me at the
Fair" is a pretty good slogan, because
where you meet these whom you ex-
pect, you are certain to meet twice as
many that you do not expect, and
you know how it is yourself 1T is the
unexpected pleasure that thrills the
heart.
Bring the wife, too, that dear old
wife who has grown gray mothering
the hens and milking the COWS and
nursing the babies through all the
long struggle from poverty up to af-
fiuence; watch her cheeks blush and
her eyes sparkle while her heart
throbs with pride in the grandeur she
has helped to achieve. Yes, and don t
leave the children at home.
The South Dakota State Fair has
heard about them and has taken them
into its account. The boys contests
and the girls contests will be a rev.
elation to them of the scientific mir
acles they have learned to perform
while they imagined they were doing
mere drudgery. Stimulate the boys
pride in his high calling and you will
have done more toward solving the
great problem of the next century
the bread and butter question than
the whole brood of scientists and
garbartists.
And there will be fun for the child
rem too. This Fair of 1910 will have
more things to make boy laugh than
Coney Island can show or Barnum
ever dreamed Of.
From every point of view the State
Fair has become q necessity as we'll
as a luxury. Ii farmers will figure,
like business men, on how to get the
most for the dollar Invested, they will
be there not by thousands, but by
tens Of thousands Fair opens Sept.
r., One fair for round trip on all