The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-10-08
Model at the Fairgrounds We'll Worth Visit for Any Citi-
 zen of Alabama
WELL KNOWN MEN AT
 THE FAIR YESTERDAY
All Seem pleased That Exhibits Are on So Much More Elaborate Scale Than Has Heretofore
 Been the Case
BY WALTER HARPER

| bf WALTER HAkPEH
 Enthusiasm compels success. It always wins.
 Feeding and milking cows is not usu- ally classed as an aesthetic profession, but there is one man in Alabama that fairly revels in the poetry of kineology, whose sweetest music is heard in the flow of foaming cream and who finds his standard of art in the blush of golden butter
 The lowing of kne as they amble into his model barns from across the rich l fields of alfalfa is the anthem of agrarian paradise The taste of buttermilk is the most savory sensation that could tickle the palate of man.
 That enthusiast is S D. Dow, who built and Is in charge of the model dairy of the Alabama State Fair grounds in Birmingham.
 l MT Dow is man of education and cul- ture. He might have won his laurels in more than one of the refined professions I He might have carved his name for the admiration of posterity in the realm l Of, immortal poetry. painted it on the walls of art museums, scrawled it on the pages of political history or even carved it on the arm of some chair of l ties of the country. But he loved the COW, and the man who wants to make a living with his COW, and he followed the bent of his mind to the COW barn. He carried with him all the enthusiasm of the artist. all the courage of the warrior and the devotion of patriot. He also carried with him into his chosen profession all the skill of the master
 MT. Dow represents the United States government in its work of dairy demon- stration in Alabama. He has been in the state only two or three years but already his helpful influence has been felt in al most every county in the state. There are monuments to his skill and enthusiasm in every section of Alabama They are in model barns, cement silos, better cattle and wider interest in dairy improvement.
 Every visitor at the State Fair should visit and inspect the model dairy. If you are not directly interested in the dairy business you are interested in the products and it is vitally important that you know something about the methods employed in the handling of those products.
 Editor C. c. Fennell of the Gunters- vile Democrat one of the oldest and most progressive country weeklies in north Alabama. was among the visitors at the State Fair yesterday. He will stay over a day or two.
 T am very much pleased with the exhibits" he said. q can see much i'm provement over previous fairs and the present management deserves to sue ceed."
 Hal Williams of Gordo walked up and down the Midway two or three dozen "This is a big fair. I am glad to see the increased interest of agricultural exhibi- tors.
 T am especially impressed with the quality and extent of the exhibits in the womans department. Mrs. Reid has done a great work in getting the women of Alabama interested in this department and deserves great credit for her public service.
 By the way. the people of Gordo, my home town, voted an issue of bonds last Monday for the erection of a new public school building. The amount of the au- thorized issue is s6OOO, and 1t carried by a three to one majority
 "Gordo has a good school and we will now erect handsome and adequate building
 Dr. J. L. Jordan of Guntersvile spent yesterday inspecting the exhibits at the Alabama State Fair in Birmingham
 He was enthusiastic over the extent and variety of the products that are being displayed.
 J. H. McClain,, in charge of the govern ment dairy work in Georgia, is spending a few days at the Alabama State Fair in Birmingham.
 You have a great fair and the officials are to be congratulated for the thorough ness of their plan and the completeness of the fair at it's opening, said MT. McClain.
 Alabama has wonderful resources and they Are all well represented in the ex- hibits. Alabama is a great state and 1t shows signs of rapid development in all lines. Your agricultural possibilities are unsurpassed"
 James c. Oakley sheriff of Bibb coun- ty, was an interested visitor at the fair grounds yesterday. He came early and stayed all day He expressed much inter- est in the exhibits and auxiliary amuse- ments
 E. D. Whitman of New Decatur, prominent real estate and insurance man, spent yesterday in Birmingham inspect ing the exhibits at the State Fair
 Mir Whitman is on his way to Chat tanooga, where he will engage in busi- ness in the future. After looking over the evidences of prosperity and progress he was almost persuaded to abandon his plans and remain in the greatest state in the south.
 But he is not going so far away. Any of his friends will send him a return ticket when he is thoroughly convinced that he is making a bad move.