The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1910-09-09
The BEST IN THE WEST
n Last Word About The Great State
Fair. The One That Marks a
New Epoch in Sou h Dakota
History
THE BIGGEST, cLEANEsT, BEST

Are you going to the State Fair?
Only few days more to make YOUR
mind, and, while it is important to
the Fair, and to your fellow citizens
who are vitally interested in it's sue
cess, it is even more important to
yourself to decide right.
The day has passed when father
could educate his brightest boys for
the law, the ministry, or CONNER
c1al life and ''make a farmer out of
John because he hasn't enough sense
to 90 anything else" Twentieth CEN
tury farming demands the best brains
in the family aided by the best spec
lal preparation that money and effort
can secure. What is special prepara-
tion?' 1t is simply a familiar knowl-
edge OF the highest results that can
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 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 farmers
boy ten time what it will cost his
father. If you are pushing, indus
trlous farmer, mechanic, or business
man, you owe yourself and your fam
lily 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 and
see what energy and industry can ac-
complish. May be it will wake you
up.
The state through Its legislature
and Fair board has done its part. IT.
has provided five days of instruction
combined with entertainment of the
very highest order,-a State Fair Sc
cond 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 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 double 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. 18th, the
opening day Of the Fair. the only one
in the West Remember that both
Iowa and Nebraska started Derbys
but neither Of them filled with start
ers. What those two comparatively
old and rich states could not do, the
young state Of South Dakota has &C
complished. 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 a
revelation to a man who has ALWAYS
imagined that this is solely an agri-
culture state.
And then the farm stock-horses.
cattle, sheep, swine and poultry
there are 1875 pens of Poland Chinas
alone already entered. You may scarce
ly believe unless you come and see
for yourself, that beeders will be here
from Wisconsin, Minnesota and even
from the Bluegrass region of Ken
lucky, to buy better breeding stock
than they can find at home
| Another feature of this fair that.
should commend it to every good citi-
zen is it's decency. Not only will there
be no gambling or games of chance
permitted, but the shows allowed on
the grounds will be clean. Nothing
vulgar or even suggestive of vulgarity
has been given a license. The man
agement has given special inducement
to clean, high class entertainment
organization, following the same rule
in this respect as in every other in an
etfort to make the South Dakota State
Fair "The Best in the West"
Come Monday and see for yourself.
Died at Hospital