The Green Forest tribune., 1910-01-28
COUNTY FAIR IDEAS
PRESIDENT OF FARMERS UNION ADDRESSES HORTICULTURISTS. Little Rock Selected as Meeting Place for Organization Next
 Season.

Little Rock-An interesting feature of the State Horticultural Society meet ing in the capital city last week was an address by Prof. Cole, president of the Arkansas Farmers Union, who urges tl., establishment of county fairs, and greater personal interest ill agricultural pursuits.
 Pof Cole outlined in concise form his idea of an ideal county fair and ex- pressed an emphatic disapproval of the "circus idea,o as related to the opera tion of county agricultural exhibits.
 My notion of an ideal fair, and the one I shall advocate," said President Cole, "would be established and con ducted along the following lines:
 "Throw out every sort of gambling device; throw out every leWd show that asks for a contract on the grounds; throw out all other kinds of shows, as having no business in connection with an agricultural fair; get action into agricultural exhibits; arrange prizes for the best exhibits shown, proportion of cost to value of product considered, and prizes for schools and for boys working in connection with the Boys Corn Clubs, under the direction of the field agent; provide lectures and an audience room for giving instruction on the exhibits"
 The fa1irs, good-timers, and peo- pie who come to a fair because they expect it to be of the "wide-open o variety, would have no place in coun- ty fair, according to President Coles notion, and he secured the hearty en- dorsement of the society on this stand.
 Little Rock again captures the an nual meeting of the State Horticultur al Society, the executive committee recommending unanimously the selec tion of this city as the meeting place for the society in 1911.
 In speaking of the action of the com mittee Prof. Ernest Walker, secretary of the society, who has worked unceas- ingly for the perfection of the organi- zation year after year, stated that it is the belief of the committee that the ends of the society can best be served by meeting here, where all the inter- ests, agricultural as well as horticul- tural, can conveniently attend.
 H'The Little Rock Board of Trade and business -mea- generally have made the society feel that there is deep interest here in the efforts of the or ganization, and have treated the mem- bers in way that has made them keenly appreciate their visit Besides, 1t is believed that the commercial or ganizations here will aid materially in securing cooperation on the part of the legislature with the ends the soci- ety is striving so hard to attain, and bring more clearly before the Legisla- ture the fact that the State organiza- tion of hortieulturists is laboring for the economic good of Arkansas at large.''
 Officers elected for the ensuing year were:
 President, D. E. Richer, Johnson county; second vice-president, H. H. Childers, Morrilton; secretary, Prof. Ernest Walker, Fayetteville; treasurer. J. W. Vestal, Little Rock. The retir- ing president, W. II. H. Shibley of Van Buren, becomes the first vice-president by virtue of his office as president for the preceding year. Executive commit. tee, J. A. Bauer, chairman, Judsonia; A. w. Poole, Ozark; o. w. Patterson, Gentry; Lafayette Marks, Springdale; M F. H. Smeltzer, Van Buren.