Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1910-09-09
WATERToWN, SOUTH DAKOTA, FRIDAY sEPTEMBER 3, 1910


make a farmer out Of job,
because he hasn't enough sens.
to do anything else. /" Twentieth
century farming demands tn,
best brains in the family a;dec
by the best special preparation
that money and effort can secure,
What is special preparation?" II
is simply a familiar knowledge o1
the highest results that can be
reached in the profession. What
kind of looking COW will produce
the most butter, what kind of a
steer will turn out the greatest
WEIGHT of the highest priced meat
at the least cost, what kind of
a 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. 10 take part in
one boys judging contest of
either stock or corn, is worth to
any farmers boy ten times what
it will cost his father. If you are
pushing Industrious farmer,
mechanic or business man, you owe
yourself and your family few
days of rest and recreation, Of
sightseeing and ocialsintercourse.
If you have been lazy and shift.
less," you owe it to yourself to
come out and see what energy and
industry can accomplish. Maybe
it will wake you up.
The state thru it's legislature
and Fair board has done it's part.
It has provided five days Of in
struction combined with enter
tainment, of the very highest order
| "a state fair second to none. You
may come and profit by it, or you
may, by staying away, let it be
wasted as far as you are con-
cerned. What are you 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 he COM
pared. Above all else, you should
see the great South Dakota Derby
on Monday, Sept. 18th, the OPEN
ing day Of the Fair, the only one
lin the West. Remember that both
Iowa and Nebraska started Derbys
but neither of them filled with
starters. What those two COM
paratively old and rich states
could not do, the young state OF
South Dakota has accomplished
1t is an earnest of the states
determination to distance he1
elder sisters in other respects.
Come and see what corn and
wheat and oats and barley-yes,
and the fruits ana vegetables, the
honey and butter our state has
produced in this year of universal
drouth and short crops. 1t will
astonieh you. That Black Hills
mining exhibition is revelation
4 to man who has always imagined
that this is solely an agricultural
state.
And then the farm Stockton
aes, cattle, sheep, swine and poul
try-there are 1875 pens of Poland.
Chinas alone already entered. You
may scarcely believe, unless yor
come and see for yourself, that
breeders will be here from Wis
consin, Minnesota and even from
the Blue grass region of Kentucky.
to buy better breeding stock than
they can find at home
/ Another feature Of this fair
that should commend it to every
Igood citizen is it's decency. Not
only will there be no gambling Or
games Of chance permitted, but
the shows allowed on the grounds
IIWill he clean. Nothing vulgar.
Or even suggestive of vuigarity,
has been given license. The
management has given special in
ducements to clean, high class
entertainment organization, fol.
lowing the same rule ii this re,
spsst as in every other Id an effort
to make the South Dakota Stat!
| Fair The Rsst IN the West. z q
Come Monday and see fol
yourself.
Lost Between Mike Fox, and