The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-06-03
FMRP07EN1 FACTOR.
As DEvELOPER0F
NORTHWEST
Louis w. Hill Says County
Shows Are Helping to
Build Up Country.
PIVOT IN MAKING
OF SEVEN STATES.
Many Benefits to Be Denied
Annual Exhibitions in
This Section.

not overlook the county faira
Iney form the pivot in the develop.
ment OF the northwestern states arri-
culturally. They are the great cIear-
Ing houses for the big land products
v stock shows as we'll as ali
state fairs" oil
This is the keynote which Louis W..
nh. president of the Great Northern
railway a sounded and which will ha
x up with a vim when the north
west development league meets in Sc
attle. Among the benefits to be de.
rived from the county fairs of the
seven northeastern states. Mr.. Hill sums
up systematically. as follows:
I'D. They start many persons OK.
n,olting VINO would never think Of
makin exhibits at the state fair.
"(2). They bring the fair suf7c,.
emily near so that all may attend.
"(3). They educate the farmers in
attendance along the lines Of their
own greatest needs.
"(4?. They stimulate effort in the
direction Of highest excellence.
"l5). They. tend greatly to the
oulluins up or the state fair, both in
rssara 10 attendance and exhibits.
because OF these benefits the small fair
Is we'll worthy of the support of the
state n OF all actively engaged in
business In the communities in which
they are held" Mr.. Hill further saws.
one reason why many farmers do
not exhibit at a state or other large
1alrs IS the apparent hopelessness Of
ever winning a prize. because of the
extent OF the competition, coming as It
does from SO wide an area, but when
the area is limited as it would be in
the case of a county fair or even OF
a fair more local than a county fair.
the farmer feels that he is competing
against n of his own class, and,
therefore. when he is the possessor of
a product that he believes to be superb
or, he is encouraged to exhibit he
same. This he can do with little or no
expense in placing the article on ex-
hibition. hence if he does not win he
doe not feel the pinch of financial loss
as he would had he exhibited to the
state fair. In this way hundreds and
thousands would be led to exhibit who
never would have done SO but for the
opportunity to exhibit at the small fair
The location Of the smaller fair
makes it easily possible for many a
farmer to attend, who may not be
able. in the meantime. to afford the
expense incurred in journeying to the
state fair and of maintenance while
there. Such men are content in the
absence of the smaller fair to stay at
home n therefore they miss the
ocllellIS Ill GuuCdIlOndl ines Inat FAIRS
furnish so effectively by way of ocular
demonstration. He is ENCOURAGED to
go to the smaller fair because he
knows man of his acquaintance will
be there whom he a meet and he has
friends in the town who are glad to
care for him. it may be. during his
stay at the fair.
Such fairs are highly educational,
as indeed all fairs are. The farmer
NAV have 0nrr1pdn1 that n
product which he grows is about as
good as a be produced with that
line. AS long Al he stays at home he
becomes no wiser with reference to
shortcomings in his work. When he
goes to the fair and puts that product
on exhibition. he finds to his astonish-
ment. that half a dozen others are
ahead Of him in the competition. He Is
naturally anxious to know the reason
why. and in this way he comes to SEQ
im~perfeCtior1s in his methods that he
would y otherwise have seen. In