The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1910-07-20
HOW A FAIR is OF
Value TO FARMERS
HIGHEST TYPES OF ANIMALS,
VEGETABLES, GRAINS, ETC, ARE
DISPLAYED AND OTHERS MAY
IMPROVE THEIR FARM PRO-
DUCTS BY COPYING.

The fair comes as a fitting reminder
of the, Importance of farming as we'll
as Of it's possibilities. Here one can
see the results of man working in ac-
cord with natures laws. Here are to
be seen the best that man can do when
he works according to the best agri-
cultural practice; the fine grain, plump,
perfect almost in form and loaded with
food till it is dense and heavy; the fine
vegetables, with both quality and size:
the fine cattle, dairy cows chiseled so
fine that they do not carry an extra
pound above what they need for car
rying on the work of milk production;
the beef cattle, with form and ancestry
that makes regular machines for eco
nomically turning rough feeds into beef
of the finest quality; hogs with the
form that has been found the. best
adapted to converting corn, grass and
other foods into pork; sheep that have
proven themselves the most perfect for
their kind of work; poultry, varieties
for egg and meat production; fruit
and here perhaps the biggest surprises
come when one finds fine samples
grown where it is commonly said that
they cannot be grown.
In the machinery exhibit one finds
the best that human ingenuity has
been able to devise for adding to COM
fort of man and beast. In the ladies'
department one finds a variety too big
for mere man to attempt to enumer-
ate, much less to discuss. The foods
one may with safety say some things
about, and suffice it to say that they
look tempting enough to make man
crave for them on a full stomach.
Why can not all produce as fine
walk off with the ribbons? Why can
not all raise as fine stock as those that
walk off with the ribbons Why can
not all grow fruit like those in the ex-
hibir? If this were done, the produc-
ton of our farms would treble at one
lump. This is one of the missions of
the fair. BY having these fine sam
pies on exhibit he who wants to know
how they are produced can learn the
method.
There is no mage used except that
of following natures laws. To produce
the good plant it must be furnished
the conditions that it needs. Likewise
to produce the good animal one must
start with one that has the right kind
of ancestry and the form or type indi :
eating that 1t is suited for the purpose
in view. It is plain that the draft
horse will not do where speed Is want
ed, as 1T is not built that way and
visa versa. Then when the right ami
NAL is secured it must be furnished
"a. then
the maximum results can be expected.
Not only is the farmer interested
in bringing about these results but
the business man, the manufacturer,
and the transportation agent is fully
as much interested, and some times
perhaps more SO as the farmer, In
case things do not prosper as well as
they should, is in position where
he can cut down expenses and pull
through while 1t means failure for the
others. The railroads are right along
doing all they can to increase the
production on the farms. J. ]. HILL,
years ago. sent to England and Scot
land for the BEST cattle and hogs that
he could get and gave them to the
farmers along his line of railroad,
knowing that as they would grow bet
ter stock that he would get more stock
to haul and thus 1t would eventually
come back to the road. Only lately
the Northern Pacific railroad placed a
train at the services Of Agricultural
college that they might fit 1t out with
apparatus and demonstrators and thus
carry to the farmers the best that has
been worked out In agricultural
science. They stated that 1t was nc
work of philanthropy but that 1t was
q business proposition with them, that