The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1913-08-20
Help the State Fair.


Fair is one of our most important in
stitutions, and all the counties in
the State ought to do all they can to
make it a grand success. TIL, State
Fair is valuable educational agency
along all lines of agricultural and in
dustrial advancement and the people
Of the State should take advantage
Of it as such. 1t is not an enterprise
Of Columbia but belongs to the whole
State, and the whole State should
giTe it cordial and substantial en-
couragement and support.
To encourage the different counties
to take more interest in the State
Fair the management has offered
valuable prizes for county exhibits.
This should stim ulate healthy riv-
airy among the several counties, and
help make the State Fair this fall the
best and most complete ever held.
The different counties should put
their best foot foremost and let the
outside world know what they can do
in the way Of raising crops and stock
Of all kinds. Such exhibits would do
the respective counties great deal
more good than they would the State
Fair.
In many County Fairs that have
beer inaugurated in the State should
not be conducted on an antagonistic
basis to the State Fair, but as aux
iliaries to it. There should be no an
tagonism on the part of the manage
ment of any County Fair to the State
Fair. Greater success for the State
Fair means greater success for every
County Fair held in the State. Both
State and County Fairs are valuable
as educators to all our people, and
both should be encouraged and help
ed as much as possible by all the
people.
No observant man, it makes no diff
ference what his calling may be, ever
attended State or County Fair who
did not come away benefited by the
many things he saw there. Then,
too, mixing up with and coming in
contact with other people broadens a
man out and makes him better and
more public spirited citizen in every
way. For this reason, all who can
should avail themselves of the educa-
tional advantages offered by the
State and County Fairs by attending
them and investigating the new
things they come in contact with
there.
The farmers are the backbone of
the State, and for the benefit of
themselves as we'll as for the benefit
Of the State, they should keep abreast
of the times in all things that tends
to increase the productiveness OF
their farms and make their burdens
lighter. This they can do by attend
ing the State and County Fairs and
exchanging views and methods with
farmers from all over the State. In
this way new ideas and plans may De
learned that would be of inestirable
value, not only to themselves, but to
their respective communities. In the
multitude Of counsel there is wis
dom.
The farmers should not only at
tend the State and County Fairs, but
they should make exhibits at them
and thus give others the benefit CT
their ideas and methods. The Will
Hanson plan of raising corn has been
of great benefit to the farmers Of the
State, but if Mr.. Williamson had not
generously let others know of it by
publishing his formula and his expe-
rience very few farmers would have
been benefited by it. So all other
farmers who may have something
that may benefit other farmers should
let it be known.