The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1913-09-12

President Of State Fair Of Texas Tells
Of Aims Of the Management IN Their
Efforts to Make the Next State air
Greatest in History.
Dallas, Texas-The Twenty eighth
annual meeting of the State Fair q
Texas viii be- held at Dallas Saturday,
October IS. to sunday, November z.
Plans for making the 1918 FAR an
Unparalleled success have one end IN
view. declares President J. J. ECkford,
and that Is to make 1t source of in-
apiration to The entire population or
the Southwest, or, IN other words
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;
"1be richness Of our premiums tmore
than g75 600 in value) promises to bring
forth the greatest exhibition in the
Fairs history The entries in all lines
are being made in such numbers az
10 Indicate more and better exhibits
than ever before The greater the ex-
hibts the more certain It il that the
Fair will be Of an educational value 70
IT'S 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 a million-d0llar livestock display
ail furnishing a wonderful opportunity
for placing before the world the Won
derful resources and industrial possi-
biites Of the Southwest.
"The rapidIty with which Texas is
becoming a great agricultural state
presents an unaqualed market for reg
istered stock Of all kinds. The small
farmer is in the livestock business. Ht
wants high-grade cattle, high grade
sheep and high-grade swine. The State
Fair is his market, and 10 the FAN
this fan are coming the owners OF The
greatest herds Of livestock in th'
= world, in every division Of the live
stock department q wonderful improve.
ment will be shown. There will b
unequaled displays Of cattle, sheep
swine. horses and jacks. attracted no
only by the rich premiums that are OF
fered but by the fact that the Stat
Z Fair is the market OF the Southwestern
farmer. A combination ~ this sor
presents an unequaled opportunity 70
E the exhibitor TO get results. and il
, usually does at the State Fair
= '"The machinery exhibit ut the stat
e Fair this fall win he laid out on
4 grander scale than ever before Ever
1912 exhibitor signed up for his spac
= at the close of the Fair last year. an
z 10 these win be added many new ones
The machinery exhibit is one Of th
Z big educational features. The yer
4 latest in farming machinery will
= demonstrated The new automohil
! building which will be erected this yea
0 will give nearly two acres in ec
II space for the big auto show. for wait
= dealers are already preparing.
g "rhe removal OF the bee departmen
n culinary department, girls cannin
clubs. boys corn clubs aud other edt
e cational exhibits to the Coliseum
ff the space mace available by the pre-
visions made for the automobile builC
T. ing win give increased space In II
sr Agricultural Building for county ey
(, hibits and displays Of farm and mi
v products. The county exhibits will I
{. more numerous and more varied
= their display than at any time in hi
Iu tory. and will more fittingy portrs
Id 20 visitors from other states the III
equaled agricultural possibilities
Texas.
3. Thousands Of dollars arc offer,
this year for work in which women al
children are interested. This does n
include the prizes Ia the poultry q
partment, in which women are probah
as much interested as men. The priz
ID IN the ladies' textile department a
81 100. culinary 5000. apiariau $500, ac
ticultural $780, dairy $3.50. hovs' al
girls hog clubs $500, boys corn clu
Sa00 canned fruits and vegetables s2l
farm and mill 5000"