Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1911-07-20
STATE FAIR
To Be BETTER
THAN EVER

| AS September rolls around each
year and the annual State Fair be-
| comes the topic in agricultural and
| Industrial circles, the oft repeated
phrase, this years State Fair will
be greater than any of it's predeces-
Sors" sounds familiar to those in
terested. To a certain extent this
| statement has been true each year,
but in lettering some departments
or some features of the states big
educational and agricultural institu-
ton in the past, other features and
departments have been neglected.
The 1911 State Fair has been or
ganized to the point when the great
er than ever" phrase becomes per
missable The State Board of Agri-
culture has gone at this years fair
more deliberate and on broader prin-
ciples than heretofore and as a re-
suit the grain growing farmer, the
dairy farmer and the beef breeding
farmer will find something in every
minutes time spent at the Fair in
Milwaukee, September II to Is, that
will compensate him many fold for
the time and expense INDUCED in dur
ing visit to the states agriculture
al show
The State Horticultural Society
will demonstrate to the land seeker
that Wisconsin offers a better apple
growing field than any of the West
ern states. In tent separate from
the regular horticultural exhibits,
Secretary Cranefield of the State
Horticultural Society will make an
exhibit of apples grown in Wisconsin
for the commercial market. In this
apple show, the first of its kind to
be held in Wisconsin, there will be
more than 800 hundred exhibits of a
bushel or barrel of apples of every
variety grown in the state
The State immigration Commission
er, also in separate and distinct
exhibit from the regular county ex-
hibits, will show a collection of gras-
ses and grains developed in the cut
over counties of Northern wisconsin,
through the cooperation of settlers
and the University of Wisconsin Ag-
ricultural college.
The State Fair Board, through it's
special attraction committee, will pro
vide variety of entertainment for
the visitor to the Fair. One of the
attractive features for every day of
the Fair will be an exhibition of the
progress of aeronautics There will
be shown at one time in the air the
familiar hot air balloon with its par
achute jumper; the derigible balloon,
steered by it's engineer into and &C
ross the winds, and the aeroplane,
the latest and most sensational "heav
Ter than air. device invented for
aerial navigation. These aerial de-
vices will be in operation in front
of the grand stand at the same time
every afternoon and evening and will
afford unique and sensational at
traction.
The women of Wisconsin are to
come into their own during State
Fair and one of the days of Fair
week will be turned over to them,
during which a progrom, in which
man can only be listener and on
locker, will be rendered
Another event that will be new
will be Military Day, Saturday,
September Is, when as many of the
state troops as can be modified on
the Fair grounds will be gathered
there. It is the intention of the
Military Day Committee to have the
three arms of the state militia, the in
fantry, cavalry and artillery repre-
sented in the maneuvers and to en-
nance the Importance of the military
undertaking the State Board of Agri-
culture has petitioned the Secre-
tary of War to assign detachments
Of the three branches of the regu-
lar army from Ft. Smelling and FIT.
Sheridan to cooperate with the state
troops in enacting a sham battle