Rocky Ford enterprise., 1913-08-22
SHOW What
YOU Can DO
Bring Forward Your Best
Farm Products, Stock
AND DON'T FORGET TO
BRING THE BABIES

arrangements fcrIecteu Dy falr Dt-
rectors for Comfort and Enter
tainment of Exhibitors and
Visitors
At meeting of the board of
directors of the Arkansas Valley
Fair association onTuesday it was
ordered that the grandstands and
all buildings be thoroughly over
hauled at once, 80 that they may
be in the best possible shape for
the coming fair, and all other ar
rangements looking to the conven-
fence of exhibitors and comfort and
amusement of visitors were plac-
ed under way, so that every assur-
ance may be given that the i'm
mense crowds which attend this,
the greatest fair and festival in the
West, will be as safely placed and
as satisfactorily instructed and
entertained as ever in the past.
At this meeting arrangements
were also made to have DIR. Glover
of the State Agricultural College
as judge of live stock at the fair,
which assures fair and impartial
Judging in this important depart
ment.
A College Exhibit
An interesting feature of the fair
last year was the educational ex-
hibit from the State Agricultural
College, and The Enterprise is
pleased to report that this will
again be feature. This exhibit
will consist of cabinet charts and
models designed to illustrate use
full facts pertaining to agricultural
home economics and veterinary
medicine, and will prove entertain
ing and instructive to everyone.
Do Your Duty By the Fair.
Do not imagine that you have done
your whole duty toward the support
of the Arkansas Valley Fair when
you have purchased ticket at the
gate and contributed your little mite
.husly for its support, for let it be
known that you are getting your
moneys worth and then some, in the
excellent program that is always pre-
sented for your amusement
al.
this fair. and realize that unless you
contribute to the success of this fair
in the exhibiting of grains, fruits.
stock or in the ladies department, you
are not doing that which you owe to
the community in which you reside.
There never was, nor ever will be
a successful fair, anywhere, unless
those who produce the stuff, take an
active and enthusiastic interest in the
fair. and make an especial effort to
get in the products OF farm and range.
Give the Babies Chance.
couple of years ago a woman in
Iowa, Mrs. Mary r Watts, conceived
the idea that the principal enthusiasm
among the people OF her state was
centered in better cattle, better corn
and better hogs. There was nothing
especially strange in this. 1t was
fact, as it was in every other agri-
cultural and livestock state. But at
the same time this woman realized
that Iowa was neglecting her most
valuable crop-her crop of babies
and out of this awakening there has
grown campaign that has seldom
had its equal campaign for better
babies.
Gertrude B. Lane. associate editor
of the Woman's Home Companion.
which is taking a foremost place in
the campaign for better babies. said:
Some people care more about bet
ter corn and better pigs than they
care about better babies. Yet we
shall lose both our corn and our pigs
if we fail to take care of our babies"
This is the keynote of the cam
paign and the logical reason for its
conduct. Certainly ii our babies are
neglected and we fail TO develop the
sturdy manhood there will in a short
time be no one to raise the corn and
the pigs. Thus do we find the sound
basis for that which is attracting so
much attention throughout the coun-
try today, especially at the county
fairs being held this year-the better
babies contest.
The value of these contests at coun-
ty fairs is shown in the fact that the
farmers paid attention TO the raising