Rocky Ford enterprise., 1912-08-16
FAIR NOTES.
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Ieet me at the Melon Pile.

Revised premium list for 1912.
Don't miss single day of the
Fair this year.
The special attractions are the best
money can buy.
Don't fail to bring the little ones,
they will enjoy the Fair, too.
At our Fair you will get more for
your money than any place on earth.
You will be entertained with me
lodious music every day of the Fair
This Fair will be a liberal educa-
ton to every visitor. Come to the
Fair. The most extravagant thing a
iar'i er can do is to stay away from
the Fair.
Season tickets good for all four
days only $I.oo.
If You want to have good time
and see your friends come to the
Fair. Fast, exciting, and honest rae
ing is promised in the numerous
events daily. in which have been en-
tered all the best and fastest horses
in this state.
The ladies will have an especial in
terest in the household and fancy
work department.; this has always
been prominent feature at our Fair.
Every farmer and every household
has something which is worthy a
place at the Fair. Bring it in and
help make the Fair glorious sue
cess.
Everybody is invited to come to
our Fair and meet your old frienls
and have reunion you will never re-
gret. This is your Fair. come and
enjoy it.
The Fair Season.
Beginning the latter part OF this
month. there will be held in this state
about twenty county fairs and the
state fair.
These fairs are educational institu-
tions of no small Importance. They
enable the farmer and breeder to re-
wise and correct their standards and
afford them the means of measuring
their progress. Valuable as they are,
there is still room for improving the
educational features of most OF the
fairs. 1t is especially importane that
possible. Each farmer should con-
slider it his duty to- help build up his
local county fair by making exhibits
in as many classes as possible. He
should do this not only to add to the
interest Of the fair for every one
else, but should take this interest
especially for its value to himself.
He will study standards of perfec-
ton more closely when he is himself
interested as an exhibitor than he will
otherwise.
1t is especially important that the
Judging of these fairs shall be done
by competent men. An excellent
plan, which is being adopted in
many places is to have the judge give
his reasons for his decisions. pointing
out just where merits and defcts ex-
ist. This plan make the competition
truly educational. 1t does, however.
possess two defcts. Some, excellent
selves well in stock addresses, and
while their placement i good the rea
sons given are not always satisfac-
tory. The other difficulty is even
more serious. especially in connec-
ton with live stock. 1t takes pret-
tv broad-minded man to be not un-
duly prejudiced in favor of his own
animals. and some of them go so far
as to unconsciously regard his fel-
low exhibitors as personal enemies,
and to feel that the only thing OF inn
portance is that he shall win. Such
men do not like to have the defects
of their entries pointed out in pub
lie. and usually the more glaring the
defects the greater the reluctance to
have these mentioned. The result
is too often that the exhibitor is of
Tended and refuses to exhibit again.
This lack of sportsmanlike attitude
on the part of the exhibitor is the
greatest drawback TO making the
show ring of the best possible edu-
cational value.
1t takes a judge of rare tact to be
able to give the reasons for his
placemnts without offending unsuc-
cessful exhibitors, and it may be ques-
toned whether this move is wise in
Colorado as yet. In the more thickly
settled communities OF the Middle
West. where the fair associations are
fairly established. and where the diff
fculty is not to secure entries, but
rather to prevent classes from be-
coming unwieldly such arrangement
is undoubtedly good. 1t would be
good here ii the exhibitors would
sanction it-C. II. Hinman, of the
Colorado Agricultural College.