The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1910-09-15
BEST FARM SHOW EVER.
Over $4,000 In Premiums At
State Fair.
GLENK IS IN COMMAND.

OF Greatest Agricultural Exhibition
Ever Held at Louisiana State Fair
Many Home Seekers Coming
More Parish Exhibits.
Everything grown on a farm-the
best of everything, too, will be shown
at the Louisiana State Fair at Shreve.
port this year from the day the fair
opens, November 2, until the day 1t
closes, November IL, and a world OF
premiums will be awarded as 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 OF
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 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 1t If 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 in 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 100000. The police jury of Cad
do Parish. in which the fair occurs
| gave $4,000 toward the erection of the
| new building and the State Fair Asso
citation furnished the necessary bal
| ance to erect the kind Of building re-
quired 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 foul
| exhibits from as many Parishes All at
tracted widespread attention and pro
badly did their communities as muct
advertising as anything that coul'
have been done This year ten parish
es have signffied their intention o
having exhibits. Besides there will b.
Individual. the town and club exhibits
The building will be artistically ar
ranged. Down the center will be tn
corn exhibits from the Boys Corr
clubs and individuals and commerf ia
organizations, while down the side
will be the other agricultural exhibits
Besides there will be many decora
| lIOLS duu lAC Uuiiuiu6 Will OC OuC "
the prettiest at the fair.
Robert Glenk, curator of the Stat
Museum, will be the superintendent o
the agricultural division. and this i
almost saying enough. for he Is one 0
the best known men in the state an
will handle the affair in such shap'
that all will be pleased. He installe
the Louisiana State exhibits at tn
Jamestown Exposition. the Chicag
Worlds Fair and the st Loui
Worlds Fair and is more eonversan
with that class of work than any othe
man in the South.
| The prizes this year for exhibit
will be exceptionally large. totallin
$4,000. This will include $400 fo
the best Parish exhibit: 5000 for tn
second best: 5000 for the third an
800 for the fourth There will also b
$1,000 in premiums for Caddo Paris
exhibits alone.
The secretary of the Fair Associs
ton will mail you catalogue. premium
lists, rules governing the exhibits an
other data relating to them ii 20
will address him at Shreveport.