The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1910-09-06
PRACTICAL ROAD MAKING
Wednesday OF Fair Week to be
Given to This Subject

state GcoIogist J.. Hyde Pratt and Mr.
leonard Tufts. President OF State
Good Roads Association Actively at
Work-Large Array of Free At
fractions and Novel shows Booked
The Fair This Year to Be a Grand
Climax to Months of Persistent Ell
fort on Part of management
Wednesday of Fair Week will be
"Good Roads Day this year. A num-
Der of manufacturers Of u~p-to-date
road-making machinery in the United
States have already entered their re-
spective lines of road making mach1n-
cry for the Great State Fair, October
17-22, 1910, nearly all Of whom have
never exhibited at the Fair before.
This, together, with our regular exnlb-
its, will make the finest display OF
modern machinery, traction engines,
farm implements, farm machinery,
road making machinery, O rollers
and all other kinds Of machinery, per-
haps ever seen in the South. This
Will, of course, attract the armer
and people generally, who are now in
tensely Interested in Good road MAX
ing in North Carolina, and It is expect
ed that, with such facilities in actual
operation illustrating fully the differ
ent methods Of good road making,
this exhibit will go very far to-
wards solving the problem of econoin
zeal and practical road making, and
will teach the best possible lessons
:3lDnO thiS Tine Sunh as the npHDIe
have not had an opportunity hereto
fore to WitDess
DR.. Joseph H. Pratt, State Geologist,
and Mr. Leonard Tufts, of PinehurSt,
the latter Of whom is president Of the
Good Roads Association of the State,
are both behind this movement, and
are actively at work for Its promo
ton. 1t was a happy conception of
the management Of the State Fair to
inaugurate this Good Roads Day, and
it is expected thai Wednesday of Fair
week this year VIII be the red letter.
day Of the week.
Yesterday Chatham county entered
the list of competitors for the large
standard cash prize for the best cOun-
ty exhibit. Old Chatham reserved a
space of 10x16 # in the new concrete
building, and proposes to put in an eX-
hibit that will do the highest credit TO
Good Old Chatham county. a num-
Der of other counties have already en-
tered, and the Agricultural exhibit
this year Will surpass that of last
year, which was conceded to be dou-
BILE that of any previous year in the
history Of the society. More indiVid-
uaI exhibits have already been enter
cd than ever before this far in advance
of the Fair. The Live Stock depart
ment will be something unprecedent-
ed, in fact every department Will be
vastly increased and improved in
point Of effectiveness of display and
quantity of material shown.
With the completion of the new
building there will be room for the
proper arrangement and display of
every exhibit, thus avoiding the terri
BILE COMPOSITIONS with which the au-
thOritics had to contend last year. The
Free Attractions will be practically all
new, and such as to offer the people
the greatest amount Of amusement
tn special attractions will be ue-
scribed more fully in detail later.
The midway Will have the most
shows, and novel exhibitions of all
kinds ever seen in the South, and no.
thing to offend the most faStidious.
The Management has been working
harder this year eau greater re-
wards for their lahOrs were easily in
sight, and the great purpose of the
management is to build up and de-
veiOp the department and features Of
the State Fair best calculated to pro-
mote the interest Of the farmers, man
ufacturers, stock raisers of the State,
and in a few years the North Caro-
lima State Fair should be easily the
biggest and most important ENTERPRISE
Of its kind anywhere in the South.