The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1911-06-30
$4,000 PREMIUMS
Fur FARGO FAIR
BOOKLETS DESCRIBING FEAT
uREs OF COMING NORTH DA-
koTA INTERSTATE FAIR DIS
TRI5UTED TopAY-MANY mo-
VATIoNS THIS YEAR.

There will be $4,000 in premiums dis
tributed at the interstate fair that will
be held in Fargo, July is, 10, 20, and. 21.
The premium list and descriptive
booklets are being distributed today by
Secretary Ballou. Also there will be
many Innovations and changes for the
better this year. These are explained
in the 'foreword," which reads as fol-
| lows:
| Five fairs have been held in Fargo.
(three state and two interstate), since
the Issuance of charters in 1905 to the
two associations, viz, the Cass County
| and North Dakota State fair for Fargo.
| Each of the five fairs has been fruit
full of counsel as to things to hold fast
and each has been rife with warning
upon things to avoid. The accompany
ing announcements embody the results
of these counsels and warnings as the
management views them. 1t expects
and seeks added light.
While there is familiar matter in the
pages that follow, do not lay them
aside uninspected, for you will find in
them much new matter as wen. In the
main the new matter may be summar-
lied in four kinds. viz. attractions Of
new type, (for example aviation), con-
tests newly devised, (for example, milk,
butterfat and feed contests for dairy
cows), lectures by men Of national rep
utation, such as DR.. Willis L. Moore,
chief of the United States weather
bureau, score-judging of exhibits on
new basis by experts.
This last named departure will be
met in classes 1, agriculture: 2, animal
husbandry; 4, bee, dairy and poultry
industries; 5, fine arts; T. science, and
9, useful arts. Iteis believed that many
of the elements Of accident in making
awards will be eliminated by using the
point-score. In each division in which
comparison judging is in any measure
employed, indication is made of the
] fact in the predatory note. In a few
| instances, for example, in the poultry
exhibits, comparisons judging will be
used to supplement the scoring.
Directly related to the matter of
score Judging is an Innovation in the
distribution of the premiums. Those
who have used former lists of the
| Fargo fairs will recall that specific
sums were apportioned for premiums
in the separate lots; the present list
retains the plan only in minor in
stances. For the most part it substi-
tutes for that a plan of apportioning
the premium money that is held up for
group of lots on a basis of relative
merit change that is made easy by
the resort to score-judging. For pur-
poses of illustration lots 1501-1507 are
cited Cfound on page 21). The entries
are scored by the judges according
to a scale of 100 points. The entries
that receive score of 50 or more
points participate In the premium
money. Suppose that 20 entries sue
coed in getting IS or more points the
amount to be divided will be $25. To
determine the part OF the premium
money to which each entry is entitled
a credit of one share is given for the
first IS points and an additional share
for each additional point. Thus a
score of 81 entities an entry to three
shares in the premium money. Sup
pose the 20 entries are entitled to %
shares, each share would be $1.1S. or
suppose they are entitled to 80 shares,
each share would be SO cents. +.
The reader will come upon repeated
references to this plan of premium
sharing, properly known as prorating
the premium. and the use of the list
will be made much easier if the plan
is kept clearly in mind In certain
of the divisions (for example 110-140)
the pro rata premium is made to apply
to a whole division even though these
may have as high as ninety lots. The