The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1912-09-12
A SPECIAL FEATURE
The Michigan State Fair VIII Make q
Free Soil Test of All Samples of
Dirt Brought to the air.

There is the free test of soils for
the farmers of Michigan by professors
from the Michigan Agricultural Col
lege who will test free all samples OF
soil brought to them. The laboratory
is located in the land show building
under the grandstand, this new struct
ure having replaced the bar and other
heterogeneous concessions formerly
located there. And there is also the
tractor test on the farm at the back
of the Fair grounds where for the
first time in the United States plows
driven by electricity, by gasoline and
by steam, will pillow the ground, har-
row it and seed it in exhibitions. And
the good roads construction work will
go on as it has for the last two years,
actual road building work being car
ried on in the grounds. This building
work drew universal attention last
year and what is more drew the plaud-
it's of the United States government
through President Taft.
Perhaps the most radical departure
undertaken by Michigan this year was
the abrogatiOn of the midway to a
point where it may be reached but
need not be reached unless the visitor
so wills. The midway from being the
very center of the attractions and I'M
avoidable when going to the grand
stand has been relegated to one cor
ner and has been cleansed Of all OBJ
jectionable features. Instead of these
Kline has brought together over a
score and one-half attractions of the
very best class and the midway will be
a more pronounced feature of the fair
than ever and so clean that the wife,
mother or children may attend alone
and without qualms at any time
With the removal of the midway from
the main line of travel and the sub
stitution Of the innocent games of
childhood and the land show, baby
show and like attractions along the
old route, most noticeable change
will be seen.
Another noticeable change at the
Fair grounds will be the opening Of
the new entrance gate for vehicles
and citizens leading direct to the au-
tomobile building around which all
automobiles and carriages will be
parked. The automobile show in its
own building will occupy all of the
main floor. This is the only building
at State Fair constructed especially
for the purpose in the country. The up
per floor of the automobile building
will be crowded this year with exhib-
its and one of these will be very in
teresting as it will contain cars OF
reputation, the first Packard, the
Transcontinental Packard truck the
World Touring Hupmobile, the Regal
Plugger, the Warren Wolverine, the
Glidden tour winning Maxwell with the
Glidden trophy, the Studebaker Texas
Long Horn, the StUdebaker pathfinder
Of the Glidden tour of 1909, the Fed
eral truck which climbed Pixies Peak
and made two Glidden tours, the Oak
land hill climber with it's host of tro-
piles and many more. The remarkable
record of these cars Will be given with
pictures of their many sterling per-
formances.
Several millions of dollars will be
represented in the various industrial
plants that will prove one of the most
interesting of the many added feat
ures at the Michigan State Fair, De-
troit, Sept. 16 to II, inclusive. The
Main Building has been given over
entire to exhibits showing process of
manufacturing and here will be found
complete automobile plant with a
million dollars worth of machinery in
operation manufacturing cars. An
automobile factory will be represented
in actual course of operation. This is
an exhibit never before seen at any
fair of the country and the Michigan
State E'air hos In, In,
troduced novelty to make the coun-
try set up and take notice. In the same
building pianos will be manufactured
as will also be piano players. There
will be bread making there as well.
The mandatory of binding Irvine,
shirts cloth, clothing and type and
steel screws will be among the other
prominent exhibits in the Process
Building.
Michigan people are proud of the
position OF the state in the automobile
world, but few have been inside of an
plant in operation. To wit
ness scores of workmen turning out
with clock-like regularity, will prove
something away out of the ordinary at
a State Fair, and will prove a popu-
lar point on the grounds. The State
Fair management arranged for this
exhibit only with the utmost difficulty
and the Board of Commerce of Detroit,
always alive to the benefits of adver-
Using, gave the Fair management
great aid in concluding the arrange
ments for this and other manufacture
Ing plants to be found in the newly
named Process Building.
With these and countless other at
fractions, with every record broken
for entries in every department of
the live stock and implement exhibits
and with fair promoted along both
agricultural and industrial lines and
with the great Grand Circuit races
running five days and the sensational
automobile races at which Louis Dris-
brow and Frank Kulick, the track
kings will meet and with Lieut. Mes
tache in great flights over the Fair
grounds and over the surrounding
the management of this years
fair has set record which will startle
the country and bring about a change
generally in the promoting of like
events in other states.
In the dairy building butter and
cheese will be made and milk will be
n