The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1911-07-13

and that things of ordinary merit and
Of current use are not worth while to
take to the fair. The managers of the
Fargo fair In 1911 are attempting to
make the Fargo fair not entirely an
| exhibition Of a few best things, but
the gathering together of articles of
commerce that all the people have
about their homes every day, so that
persons may know what other persons
can do in the way Of handiwork, what
sort Of grains they raise on their farms
and in their gardens, and what live
stock they keep in the ordinary way
and for general usefulness to the COM
munity as a whole.
To make q great show or an amuse-
ment place would, perhaps be worth
while. It might pay to collect through
gate receipts sum OF money and pay
the entire amount to the people. ami
mails and property assembled on fair
grounds simply to be looked at and to
amuse the people who pay In their
money at the gate for the privilege,
However, the state and county do not
appropriate its revenues for any such
purpose. 1t aids people to assemble
on fair grounds the products of It's
communities so that persons can Judge
of its peoples industry and the states
development. Heretofore in the butter
and cheese department, certain sum
of money has been appropriated to
award on the share distribution system,
to the farmers wives and daughters
who would send in their butter and
cheese products for exhibition and
comparison. Every exhibit has been
compared and, If Of reasonable worth
and scoring up to a minimum score
has been given one share in the capital
prize. The better butter exhibits have
received more than one share in the
capital prize, the shares being gauged
by the score card made up according
to the quality Of the exhibit. This year
the premiums paid to the exhibitors at
the Fargo fair, will be distributed on
a like plan. This plan has increased
the number Of exhibits in the butter
and cheese department marvellously,
while In other departments paying
money only to first and seconds In each
lot, there has been tendency to les
sen the number Of exhibits. II an ex-
hibitor who exhibits an article Of OUT
standing merit. can score the whole Of
the gift given by the fair. then the per-
son who is doing his best to make the
fair success by sending out the pro-
duct of his labor or the thing he pro-
duces, finding that he has really little
recognition and receiving nothing
whatever for his trouble, soon tires of
coming into the game at all. We want
a big fair in Fargo, one that will fairly
represent the products and industry
or the community and one at which
each person will find recognition and
be awarded something for the trouble
and expense to which he puts himself
to help make the show.
We appeal to the whole people TO
make the Fargo fair of 1911 one char
acterized by multitude OF exhibits.
We have the best amusement COM
pany, an aviator who can fly, a good
string of horses, but we cannot have
fair In the real sense of the word
unless the people themselves will ex-
hibit what they have In their homes.
barns and fields. This state and the
United States are spending nearly
nearly 100000 annually in support OF
its agricultural college, teaching our
boys and girls along the lines of prac-
tical husbandry, the Judging of good
live stock and the making OF useful
articles In domestic economy. These
classes should have some practical
way Of demonstrate their skin
therefore we have asked the North
Dakota Agricultural college students
20 judge Of the merits OF the things
exhibited at Fargo fair, 1911, and score
the exhibits. From this score card the
division Of the capital prizes will be
made. IL this sort of q fair, aiming 10
all the people. win not work.
Il means that one or two fine articles
will be exhibited In the nature OF an