The Bad River news. [volume] (Philip, Stanley County, S.D.) 19??-1912, 1910-09-08
THE BEST IN THE WEST
A Last Word About The Great State Fair, the
One That Marks New Epoch In South
Dakota History
The Biggest, Cleanest, and Best
Better Exhibits. More Machinery. Better Races
and the Only Derby in the West

Are you going to the State Fair
Only a few days more to make VI
your mind, and, while it is import
ant to the Fair, and to your fellow
citizens who are vitality interested
in it's success, it is even more i'm
pOrtant to yourself to decide right.
The day has passed when faith,
er could educate his brightest boys
for the law, the ministry, or a
commercial life and make a farm
er out of John because he hasn't
enough sense to do anything else. "
Twentieth century farming de-
mands the best brains in the fami-
ly aided by the best special pre-
parations that money and effort
can secure. What is Especial pre-
paration!" 1t is simply familiar
knowledge of the highest results
than be reached in the profession.
What kind of a looking COW will
produce the most butter, what kind
of steer will turn out the greatest
weight of the highest priced meat
at the least cost, what kind of a
hog pays the most for corn, what
is the best of every kind of grain,
where it is grown. and how? No
place, no other school, affords so
much, or so cheap instruction
along these practical lines as does
the State Fair. TO take part in
one boys Judging contest, of either
stock or corn, is worth to any far
mer's boy ten times what it will
cost his father. If you are push
ing industrious farmer, mechanic,
or business man, you owe yourself
and your family few days of rest
and recreation, of sightseeing and
social intercourse. If you have
been lazy and 'shiftless," you owe
it to yourself to come out and see
what energy and industry can &C
complish. Maybe it will wake
you up.
The state through it's legislature
and Fair board has done it's part.
It has provided five days of in
struction combined with entertain
ment of the very highest order,-
State Fair second to none. You
may come and profit by it, or you
may, by staying away, let it be
wasted as far as you are concerned.
Which are you going to do!
South Dakota has never given,
South Dakota has never seen such
a fair as this one. In number and
in volume the exhibits, the races
and the entertainment will be dou-
BILE all former fairs; in quality they
are not to be compared. Above
all else, you should see the great
South Dakota Derby on Monday,
Sept. 10Th, the opening day of the
Fair, the only one in the west.
Remember that both Iowa and Ne
braska started Derbys but neither
of them filled with starters. What
those two comparatively old and
rich states could not do, the young
state of South Dakota has accom-
plished. 1t is an earnest of the
states determination to distance
her elder sisters in other respects,
Come and see what corn and
wheat and oats and barley,-yes,
and the fruits and vegetables, the
honey and butter our state has
produced in this year of universal
drouth and short crops. 1t will
astonish you. That Black Hills
mining exhibition is revelation
to man who has always imagined
that this is solely an agricultural
state.
And then the farm stock,-hors-
es, cattle, sheen, swine and poul-
try, there are 1876 pens of Poland
Chinas alone already entered. You
may scarcely believe, unless you
come and see for yourself, that
breeders will be here from Wiscon-