Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1909-1911, 1911-07-21
THE WISCONSIN STATE
FAIR NOW TO FRONT
THIS YEAR TO BE ON
GREATER PROPORTIONS
Annual Event This Year is Seized
uled for Sept. 18th to l6th-Will
Be Entertainments Galore and
Wisconsin Products Will Be On
Display as Never Before.

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 predecessors"
sounds familiar to those interested.
To a certain extent this statement
has been true each year, but in bet
tering some departments or some
features of the states big educational
and agricultural institution in the
past, other features and depart
ments have been neglected.
The 1911 state fair has been organ
lied to the point when the greater
than ever" phrase becomes permis-
sible. The state board of agricul-
ture 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 IL to 16, that
will compensate him many fold for
the time and expense indulged in
during a visit to the states agricul-
tural show.
The state horticultural society will
demonstrate to the land seeker that
Wisconsin offers a better apple grow
ing field than any of the western
states. In tent separate from the
regular horticultural exhibits. Secre
tary Cranefield of the state horticul-
tural society will make an exhibit Of
apples grown in Wisconsin for the
commercial market. In this apple
show, the first of it's kind to be held
in Wisconsin, there will be more than
300 exhibits Of bushel or barrel
OF apples of every variety grown in
the state.
The state immigration commission
er, also in separte and distinct ex-
hibit from the regular county exhib-
it's, will show a collection of grasses
and grains developed in the cut-over
countis-, 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
provide 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 it's para
chute jumper; the derigible ballon,
steered by it's engineer into and
across the winds, and the aeroplane,
the latest and most sensational
heavier than air. device invented
for aerial navigation. These aerial
devices 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.
Another event that will be new will
be Military day, Saturday, Septem-
Der 16, when as many of the state
troops as can be modified on the
fair grounds will be gathered there.
1t is the intention of the Military day
committee to have the three arms of
the state militia, the infarntry, caval-
ry and artillery represented in the
maneuvers and to enhance the i'm
portance of the military undertaking
the state board of agriculture has
petitioned the secretary of war to as
sign detachments OF the three branch
es of the regular army from Ft. Smell
ling and Ft. Sheridan to cooperate
with the state troops in enacting a
sham battle.