Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1910-07-28
STATE FAIR At HURON
South DakOta's Opportunity OF Showing
AGtaa1 Results to the World by Actual
Exhibits Of its Products at the 26th
Annual state Fair

Aua hA GASAhk bh0h AS
afforded by the State Fair next Sep
tember.
While nature smiles on every To-
cality, when everybody is prosperous
and opportunity Is knocking at every
door, all that the most favored section
can offer to the possible immi-
grant or investor is fuller measure Of
prosperity or a wider margin of profit
on his investment. He is doing we'll
you ask him to let go where he lie es-
tablishe1 and cast his lot In with you
In the hope OF doing better. Thas is
all you can offer, but the sound old
maxim, LET we'll enough alone," rings
in his ear as he listens TO you and the
conservatism inherent in every man
bids him hesitate TO change.
But when he is not doing well,
when his bank account is dwindlng,
when the balance Is on the wrong side
OF the ledger, when his grRnary 10
empty after the harvest time is past
and his hay NOW only half filed, when
short feed forces immature stock onto
the market and the crop is taken to pa
the rent, he is not only ready but
eager, to listen to .promiss OF some
thing better.
This is the condition today in South
Dakota's advertising field, as it
stretches away from her eastern boz der
to the Atlantic coast. Very recently
the writer of these lines made a trip
through Minnesota, Wisconsin,, North
ern Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Kentucky
and Virginia, paying especial attention
TO the crop conditions along the route.
Except In very small section-three
or four counties In western Wisconsin,
he did not see single field of corn or
small grain that compsr I'd. favorably
with thu average crop anywhere 10 the
settled portions of South Dakota. No
where was the corn crop 80 we'll ad-
vsnced or of so good color, and In the.
grain field the straw was shorter, the
stand poor. the heads small and the
grain dying for lack OF rain. instead of
ripenin9 naturally as 1t 10 doing here.
In prOpitiOus seasons The entire
United States Is q magnificent grain
field. There Is, apparently, but little
choice. But the adverse season, the
late spring, the early fall or the year
of scant rainfall, is the crucial test
which brings out the latent pOssibiIi-
ties and comparative advantages of the
more favored localities.
We dwellers In this favored land
have known full we'll of Its magnificent
resources for you, but the balance OF
the country does not know and only
one half believes the eutrancing story.
You may hammer statistics into q man
for years; you may tell him all about
South DakOta's gorgeous wheat fields,
her miles of waving corn, her oats and
barley and rye, her potatoes and pump
kins and cabbages; you may describe
accurately and in glowing colors her
magnificent studs of Percherons and
Clydesdales, her splendid herds OF
Shorthorne, Herefords and Galloway
her Shropshires, her Poland Chinas
and Plymouth Rocks; you may prove
to him by cold figures that the South
Dakotan creates more annual wealth
per capita than any other man, houses,
feeds, clothes and educates his family
better than any other man simply be.
cause he is able TO do it-and that be
is able only because he lills richer
soil under more genial skies than the
other fellow does; you may show to him
that "A share in all these good things
are AT his command for less than half
the price per acre of the stony hillside
in his boy hood home; and he may be-
lieve you, Ia dull, uncomprehendlng
fashion, but you have not impressed
him. How do know? Why, simply
because 95 per cent OF them linger on
the stony hillside and they would not
do it If they comprehended and be-
lieved the story.
/ ASAs w hAS OyS5i ~OuStdOE GNGTy
man Missourian and "show him."
Show the grain, the hay, the vege-
tables, the sheep, hogs, horses and
poultry that South Dakota can produce
Ia year of universal drought, that
hSHE HAS PRODUCED THIS YEAR
when not one OF her most favored sister
states can show half a crop. Pile up
at our State Fair such aO aggregation
OF wonderful farm produce as the state
can get together with only the most
trifing effort; tell him what you have
and invite him to come and see It,.
Get him here at any cost, Organize
cheap excursions from all the nearb
states. Let him see what the state has
done this year and you have convinced
him NOT ONLY THAT WE HAVE
A GOOD STATE, BUT TIE BEST
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