The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-06-15

 VALUE 0F AFA| Prospectus of 1911 Cat
 Issued A SCHOOL COUR The Farmer and His Family Have Great Advantages of Educatio] Which Are Not Found
 Elsewhere

4 prospectus for the 1911 catai the Alabama State Fair, to be in October. has just been complete Secretary Frank P. chafree. of the association, who has chosen to the big celebration in the aspect educational value.
 After outlining the possibilities of state fair celebration as they arisl cyclic order out of it's various f sions of amusement. educational exh prize contest and other things, Chaffee in a timely way assigns to these considerations the willingness the state fair association to attemp more extensive and elaborate celeb tion from year to year.
 The prospectus runs as follows:
 The State on Exhibition
 Few people realize and apprecid the really great educational value vel. conducted state fair. It Is { entire state on exhibition An objd lesson in the progress made in agS culture, live stock breeding and genol industrial lines.
 Tt Is short course school for t farmer and his family, for himse sons and daughters and his wife. cheap and reasonably effective colle course In agriculture and industrs lords 10 days of most profitable ecl on;y, of information. combined with lightful rest and healthful amuseI "A state fair would not be W of support if 1t did not keep tt l ucational feature ever jn M 'nt Alabama State Fair has a1wavs this. For more than 10 years nod people of Alabama have seen their sN fair grow from very small attei to what is now considered to be of the best. If not the best. state f south of the Ohio rivefs The peoj of Alabama now feel confident that is good thing. believe 1t ko be woi a great deal more than it costs, aI are sure of it's educational and instru tive value.
 Not a Mere Show
 "If it has done nothing more ths to make a big display, compared oi fine herd of live stock, or swine. wi another, to see which individual 6 hibitor could collect the largest nur Der of ribbons, or match agricultur products and implements. or test | speed of finely bred horses-if this we the only aim and end. then it mig well be questioned whether it was { worth while But, in truth, there a thousands of Alabamians, not from t farm alone, but from the shops al storerooms, who attend the Alaban State Fair with eyes and ears wi open, and they find the experience vas ly profitable to them. Il is Indeed tl short course school in the industr agriculture and live stock breeding their state. and they regard 1t mo highly the oftener they attend.
 ",rhe result of all this is. natural better homes, better farming, more dustries, greater prosperity, increas happiness, larger herds. finer machi cry, more money in the bank, mo money to the county and state in q enhanced value of farm property tnlS leduS tO bttlcI iioiiiC- II "a aA4 D. r
 Pleasure in Addition
 "But. while the educational ideals q kept ever to the front. there is q provision for amusement and pleapl1l for fair must be attractive II people are to attend. After they | tend they absorb the instructive val of the fair and at the same time tH are being amused. So 1t is that th4 ~ baina State Fair has the very best m sic, the best of free acts, and b> of fireworks attractions. the finest rae the most attractive night shows, and varied programme of interesting ca ventions and meetings. But, best Of tllose who attend from the rural q tricts, go home with a higher Idea their states resources, with hiGf ideas of farm life, and with renew detcrmination to produce better cre' and to improve the breeding of th! live stock and poultry.
 "The state fair is one of tho b| eNplnitations of the back to the fa> movement"