The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1910-06-01
Eighth Annual State Fair

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September 26, p, %, 20, 80, and Oct.
/, 1910.
| Fifty thousand people added to our
population and nearly all of them
settlers on our soil, is the record
since the Montana State Fair was
held last September. Estimates
based on figures for the most of the
period shows that the influx of set
tiers has been greater than ever be-
fore. During the short period that
the ColSnists obtained rates, fully
| 1000 cars of household goods and
stock passed the railroad transfers
bound for the west. This would
| point to possible addition to the
wealth OF our state of over $40, ,OOO, 900.
That this record will be more than
equaied in the next few month is al
ready assured. The last State Fair
demonstrated that this is great ag-
ricultural state with wonderful pos
sibilities in all lines of production.
1t is, therefore, deemed timely to set
forth, briefly, for the benefit of our
new citizens, and all our people as
well, the aims and objects of the
State Fair;
First: 10 show the possible re-
S onrces of the state and the charac-
ter of the same.
Second: 10 furnish a substantial
measure of the progress made by a
comparison of the exhibits displayed
at the successive fairs.
Third: TO educate those IN attend.
ance with reference to the various
industries represented in the exhib-
It's. This education comes largely
through ocular demonstration. ana
IS. therefore, not only of the simplest
but also of the most valuable kind.
Fourth: TO acquaint those in at
tendance with what is newest and
best in the various departments.
| Without some such aid it is imnoss;-
bic now to keep pace with the prog
ress OF the present age.
Fifth: to advertise the state witt,
refe1e ence to it's products. In new
state such advertising is, beyond all
compari son, the cheapest and most
effective in proportion to it's cost.
| Sixth: TO stimulate those who at
tend and especially those who COM
pete to reach out after higher attain
ment in all the various lines of pro-
ductiOn.
1T IS simply impossible to estimate
the good that has resnlted from we'll
conducted fairs. The visitor car,
learn more in day in regard to pro-
duction in his own line, than he could
learn through years OF patient work
without such an aid. 1t is we'll to-
remember that the. character of ;,
state Fair is one of the best meas
ures OF the status of the state that
can be furnished.
The value of State Fair is pro-
| portionate to the number. variety
and excellence of the products that
are put OH display and to the number
OF the citizens and others who come
to see the exhibits. 1t rests largely
with the management to say what
the variety of the exhibits shall be
1t rests with the people to say what
their excellence shall be and il
rests with the citizens to say what
the attendance shall be.
Much attention is being given TO-
encourage increased exhibits in the
line OF live stock. When live stock
was chiefly grown on the range
the inducements were not great to
encourage exhibits of the same
Range conditions are intended to pro-
duce animals for the market rather
than for the show ring. Now that
such production is gradually shift
ing from the range to the ranch it is
only fitting that these lines of pro.
duction should be encouraged as new.
er before.
The Montana State Fair of 1910 Wilt
unquestionably be the best that has
ever been held in the State. The
wonderful extension Of the area that
will be put under crop the present
season assures such an exhibit, for il
Will proportionately increase not
only the number of the counties ex-
hlbltlng but also the number of ex-
hlbitors and the volume of the ex-
hibits.
1t will prove greatly in the interest
OF the state to have the best exhibit
that 1T can furnish the present sea-
son, owing to the great influx of set.
tiers into the state, a great many of
whom, have, as yet. far too low a
conception of what the state can do
in the line Of agricultural production.
There is no denying the facts of the
ocular demonstration furnished by
the exhibits PatriOtis,n +barofouo