The weekly Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1911-1922, 1911-08-10
SLOGAN OF STATE FAIR
EDUCATIONAL WORK CARRIED
ON FOR TWO GENERATIONS.
Back to The Farm" to Be Especially
Emphasized at Big Exposition
Week Of Sept. a.

week OF sept. q.
With back to the farm" as it's slo
gan this year, the Indiana State
Fair will. during the week OF
September 4, get closer to the
agricultural interests of the State
than it has ever been before. The In
diana Fair has for nearly sixty years
been a powerful educative force
among the farming and live stock
element and, while never departing
from this leadership in promoting the
farming welfare, it has sought to
quicken the interest of it's visitors by
offering rich programs of attractions.
But for the coming Fair the exposi.
ton will concentrate practically it's
entire energy in spreading before its
friends a magnificent display of all
that is best within the State that the
farming element may see in a great
bird 's-eye view what the agricultural
and live stock resources of the State
amount to. 1t is not proposed TO
measure these resources in dollars
and cents, but by exhibiting the best
horses, cattle, sheep, swine, poultry.
orchard and field products, show what
the State is producing in quality
From other States, too, as in other
years, will come specimens of live
stock Which will offer means of com
parison with these products from In
diana
The back to the farm movement
does not mean that the Indiana Fair
is going to tie the men and women
who visit it to sober programs requir
ing brain-fagging effort to get the edu-
cational values, but each days
affairs will be spiced with clean and
wholesome entertainment: Less en-
phasis will be placed on the lighter
forms of entertainment, however, but
the band concerts, live stock parades,
the Parker midway shows will afford
abundant diversions for the pleasure
seeker
In the night shows, and in the day
exhibitions of live stock and other
regular departments the displays will
keep pace with the high degree of
excellency which now marks country
life in Indiana. The horse show will
be of such quality that vaudeville fea-
lures will not be necessary to en-
nance it's value. The farmer who is
interested in shorthorn cattle will find
these animals in such quality and
abundance that if he desires he may
spend two or three days at the Fair
studying the good points of animals
that are brought before his eye.
The farm woman who is especially
interested in poultry will find the
Fair offers an endless amount of in
formation along this line, or if she is
particularly interested in her home
dairy she may spend the entire week
at the Fair, IL she so desires, and give
the time to a study of dairy methods.
The State Fair, in fact, proposes TIC
become higher school of information
along all lines which will enable the
farming people to improve their crops,
herds and flocks and in this improve
ment bring greater wealth to them
selves.
A short course September school,
when work at the farm may for the
time be put by,-a school for the
farmer, his wife, sons and daughters,
an inexpensive and effective college
course in agriculture and industry
Tho is the Indiana State Fair. Set
ting off one superb herd against an
other. one breed OF poultry matched
against another, field products from
one portion. of the State seeking
greater favor than the products from
another section giving the visiting
farmer opportunity to make compari-
sons, all will tend toward giring the
visitors schooling of the valuable and
pleasant sort. OF course, it is the
ambition of the exhibitors to win
prize ribbons, may be to dispose OF
some blooded stock to farmer that
is ambitious to improve his home
herds, that brings the highest
quality of exhibits to the Fair. but
this competition is lost sight of by
the visitor who would make of the
Fair an educational force and turn it
to his personal account.
1t is this line of educational work
that the Indiana Fair has been doing
among the farmers for two genera
tons, and the exposition may to very
large degree be credited with having
brought about better homes, better
farming, larger and finer herds, more
industry through the use of better
farm machinery, increased happiness,
more money in bank-in fact, new
era of better living at the farm homes