The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1913-08-27
STATE FAIR TO
Be GREAT SHOW
Many Big Features Booked fol
Kentucky's Annual Display.
TO Be HELD IN SEPTEMBER

mems Of Cultivated Plants anc
Works Of Art, Combine to Make Dis
play at Louisville an Edueationa
Event Of the South.
The greatest agricultural, live stock
and educational event In the south IL
the Kentucky State Fair, the eleventh
annual celebration of which Will be
held in louisville, Sept. 1920 next
during the most beautiful and allurin9
season of the entire year.
At this exhibition will be shown
products OF the mine, the forest, the
workshop and the factory, and the
rarest examples of cultivated flowers,
plants, art work, needle work, county
school exhibits, a model dairy, and
many other entertaining and instruc'
tive features.
The prize list of $4,000 is a very
enticing feature, but even more mo
mentous as a consideration to exhib
itors is the distinction of an award
from the Kentucky State Fair. The
sentimental ana exploiting value OF
such an award has grown until
it is one of the most coveted
of possessions to those who may
itors in the country's largest agri'
cultural shows. 1t is not possible to
estimate the prestige and distinction
associated with a prize from the state
fair of a commonwealth recognized as
the head of the horse world, as the
foremost live stock state, and as an
agricultural community with few SUI
periors in the Union.
The horse, always predominant
figure in a Kentucky live stock show,
stands at the head of the prize list.
pavilion horses are exhibited in the
mornings and afternoons, and at
night, in the glow and radiance of
myriads of electric lights, the world $
greatest horse show is held.
The new features introduced for the
years fair will include the Kentucky
State Fair Futurity for saddle bred
foals of 1913, an event equal in i'm
portance and dignity to the great
racing futurities on the thoroughbred
and trotting turf.
The Commissioner of Agriculture
Saddle Horse Stake, the star attrac
ton of the fair for several years past,
and which has always been regarded
as Americas leading saddle horse
event, has been increased from $1,000
to $4,000, and unless all indications
fail it will be the greatest ring OF
saddle horses ever paraded before a
horse-loving public.
In addition to these there are three
special saddle horse stakes, nomina-
tions to which closed April 15, with
the most creditable list of entrants
that has ever been recorded for a like
event. Horse racing, always attrac-
tive and pleasing to the fair-going
public. will be on a bigger scale than
ever before. Recognizing the popu
larity of this sport as well as the
value of the horse-breeding branch IL
represents, the state fair management
has offered four $1,000 stakes for this
years meeting. There will be four
teen other harness events and two or
three running races every day. AS the
fair precedes the fall race meet at
Douglas Park, some of the crack run
ners in training at the local tracks
will doubtless compete in these races.
Commissioner j. w. Newman, chair
man OF the state fair board, has intro
duced his pet hobby in a scientific
Baby Show, which, instead of being a
sideshow or amusement, as some have
characterized like exhibits at the
county fairs, will be genuinely in
structive and progressive movement
toward a systematized study of baby
eugenics. The idea is one which is rap
idly growing in popularity throughout
the country, and its Importance was
emphaticauy demonstrated at the
Iowa State Fair last year.