The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1913-10-16
1913 STATE FAIR
THE BEST EYER
Entertainment Feature Without
Parallel in Southwest.
OFFERS RICH PRIZES
President o. State Fair OF Tssss Islls
Of Aims Of the Management in Their
Efforts to Make the Next State Fs's
Greatest in History.

Dallas, TeXas-The Twenty eighth
annual meeting Of the state Fair OF
Texas vii be held at Dallas Saturday.
October IS. to Sunday, November j.
Plans for making the 1913 Fair an
unparalleled success have one end In
view, declares President j. J. Eckford.
and that Is to make 1t a source OF In
spiration to the entire population OF
the Southwest, or, in other words. a
great university where the very latest
developments in every line OF progress
and every branch OF industry are to
be taught and demonstrated. He said:
THE richness OF our premiums (more
than s75, 900 in value) promises to bring
forth the greatest exhibition In the
Fairs history. The entries in all lines
are being made in such numbers as
to indicate more and better exhibits
than ever before. The greater the ex-
hibits the more certain IT is that the
Fair will be OF an educational value to
its patrons.
zone must deal in millions in talking
OF the coming Fair. For instance, there
will be million dollar machinery dis
play, a million dollar automobile dis
play, million dollar livestock display,
all furnishing a wonderful opportunity
for placing before the world the won
derful resources and industrial posi-
bilitics of the Southwest.
THE rapidity with which Texas Is
becoming a great agricultural state
presents an unequaled market for reg
istcred stock of all kinds The small
farmer is in the livestock business. He
wants high grade cattle high grade
sheep and high grade swine. The State
Fair is his market, and to the Fair
this fall are coming the owners OF the
greatest herds OF livestock in this
nnrli N liVi sion pf the lyp-
stock department wonderful improve
ment will be shown. There will be
uneQualcd displays OF cattle, sheep
swine, horses and jacks, attracted not
only by the rich premiums that are Of
fered, but by the fact that the State
Fair Is the market OF the Southwestern
farmer. A combination of this sort
presents an unequaled opportunity for
the exhibitor to get results, and he
usually does at the state Fair.
THE machinery exhibit at the State
Fair this fall will be laid out on a
grander scale than ever before. Every
1912 exhibitor signed up for his space
Mt the close of the Fair last year, and
to these will be added many new ones
The machinery exhibit is one of the
big educational features. The very
latest in farming machinery will he
demonstrated The new automobile
building which will be erected this year
will give nearly two acres in floor
space for the big auto show, for which
dealers are already preparing.
"The removal of the bee department,
culinary department. girls canning
clubs, boys corn clubs and other edu-
cational exhibits to the Coliseum in
the space made available by the pro-
| visions made for the automobile build
Ing will give increased space in the
Agricultural Building for county eX-
hibts and displays OF farm and mill
products. The county exhibits will be
more numerous and more varied In
their display than at any time in his
tory, and will more fittingly portray
to visitors from other states the un-
eQualed agricultural possibilities OF
! Texas.
"Thousands OF dollars are offered
this year for work in which women and
children are Interested This does not
| include the prizes in the poultry de-
partmcnt, in which women are probably
as much interested as men. The prizes
in the ladies textile department are
s1,1OO, culinary $500, apiarian $500, hor-
! ticultura SlO0 dairy $3.50, boys and
girls hog clubs $500, boys corn clubs
5000. canned fruits and vegetables 500,
farm and mill $500"