The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1913-08-07
IMPROVE ALL DEPARTMENTS
Prize List offered is the Best Ever Ar
ranged by State Board of Agriculture
and the Big Show Will Have Many
Features Of int rest to the State.

If liberal and judicious expenditure
| of funds available has the expected eff
feet, officials and members of the Wis.
consin State Board of Agriculture will
give the Badger state fair at Milwau-
kee, September s to II, that will ex-
| eel all its predecessors in magnitude
and standard of exhibition. This year
more than $4,000 is offered in prem
iums and purses alone, and about
$4,000 will be offered for special
attractions.
| Preparing the premium list for this
year, the board and the special com
mittees examined every classification
carefully, with the object of placing re-
wards strictly accorolng to merit and
encouraging those pursuits in Wiscon.
sin which are of the greatest value to
| the state and its people. In nearly
every instance the amount of money
appropriated for standard tried and
approved classification in live stock,
agriculture, manufactures, the arts
and crafts was materially increased.
| Also several new classifcations of ac-
| knowledged merit were provided with
liberal appropriations. Notable is the
separate classification for Belgian draft
L, Al L
Shires, with an appropriation of $500
for premiums.
The amount of money appropriated
for speed events this year is $24, 100.
The effect of this liberality has already
been attested, as about 40 horses were
listed in the early closing entries, June
18th. It is notable also that the in
| crease in stakes attracted larger fields
from the best horses that are follow
ing the big circuits. The faster classes
were the best filed. Twentyfour good
horses, including many well known
money winners, are recorded in the 2:06
pace. In the 2:l3 pace, twenty-nine are
listed, and in the 2:16 trot twenty
eight have registered. The speed com
mittee also has responded to popular
demand and provided for running races
with an appropriation of $1,000.
The record breaking number of en-
tries in all departments at this early
date give proof that this new policy of
the board has awakened the interest in
this state and all parts of the country.
The space in the machinery and dairy
buildings is practically all taken.
While the primary object of the state
fair is education for the people of Wis
consin, the board recognizes that GER
tain amount of high class entertainment
on the grounds is essential and this
year is putting forth much special eff
fort. Irwin Bros. Real Cheyenne Wild
West Show has been secured to give
programs every afternoon and evening
every day of the fair at cost of $751;
900. This organization is the same
roundup that entertained former Presi-
dent Roosevelt at Cheyenne, Wyo., 1904
and 1910, and former President Taft in
the same city in 1911. It comprises 25O
cowboys, cowgirls and Sioux Indians,
also about rs famous outlawed bronchos
and the same number of ranch deer and
buffalos. This organization, which
Roosevelt said was the best of its kind
he ever had seen, will bring the sensa-
tional character of western life right
to the home of Wisconsin people. This
attraction will be absolutely free to all
patrons of the state fair as all the en-
tertainment will take place in the open
on the fair grounds. Thus the patrons
of the fair will be getting both the
best wild west show in the country and
the best fair in the middle west for the
one price, so cents, the ordinary charge
for circus. The board has taken even
another liberal step and reduced the
night admission to % cents when all
departments and attractions, including
the Cheyenne show, will be afforded the
same as during the day.
Economy accompanies this liberality
Of the board. Useless expense is being
avoided in every department. The
board is determined to get a dollars
worth for every dollar expended. The
idea is to make the fair boost Wiscon-
SIM "Badger's Biggest Booster is
the slogan that has been adopted and
the sentiment is permeating every ac-
tivity in connection with the state
fair.