The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1914-10-28
state FAIR COMING
GREAT EXHIBITS FOR FARMERS
SPECIAL BENEFIT ,
PROGRAM IS EXCEPTIONAL

Forty-four Counties Have Gathered
Agricultural Exhibits for Display
Football Games, Automobile Races
and Fireworl1 Exhibition "Pan-
anna" Assure a Great Time.
Just at this time, when the general
assembly and the people are vexed
with so much cotton and attention is
turning to the necessity of growing
grain and foodstuffs, it is a coinci-
dence that the coming Fair will deal
more largely with agricultural dis
plays than has been possibly, the GUS
tom Of the past.
Preparations are making for COM
plete showing of the many diversified
industries of the State which the far
mer yearly grows on his land and the
possibility thus shown of how easy
it is to get away from the one crop,
cotton, the cause of all the present
worr and trouble. Under the leader
ship of Col. W. w. Long, the United
States demonstration agent for South
Carolina, the demonstration agents
in each of the forty-four counties
have gathered exhibits for display at
the Fair.
These exhibits are complete les
sons which can be obtained by visi-
tors to the Fair. Each county exhibit
will be in a booth in the big steel
building on the Fair grounds, and
here the visitors, and especially the
farmers, will be enabled to see for
themselves just how and what they
can plant on their lands instead of
cotton and get back into that pros
porous era of farming which so long
blessed the Southland.
And fair woman will be at the Fair
to make complete the lessons which
are only half taught without her
! magic hand. Twenty girls tomato
clubs from twenty counties in South
Carolina will have exhibits at the
Fair, each one installed in booth in
the big steel building. Here one can
learn all about tomatoes, how to grow
them and then how to can them after
they are grown so as to make pro-
| fitable business.
There is no industry in the State
| with greater possibilities in fnan-
cial way, and the work which has
already been done under the wise
leadership of the young ladies who
have devoted their time and talents
to developing this resource is source
o: continual pride and admiration to
every Carolinian. Just to see what
| they are doing is worth itself a trip
to the Fair.
But this is only Uniting the pro-
gram" for the Fair in "hgh spots. y
| There will be fancy beef and milk
COWS, the best breed suitable for this
State. And just to recall the threat
| of the nearness of the dreaded boil
| weevil is to emphasize the importance
| of the cattle industry being develop
ed in South Carolina. Col. Long will
show you at the Fair how to do it.
There will be milking contest and
| chance to learn something about milk
COWS.
The poultry department will be
one Of the best ever seen. All kinds
of the best and fancy breeds OF
chickens in the State will be on exhi-
bition, and the poultry show is sure
| to draw people from every county
The poultry industry has grown rap
idly in recent years, and many yalu.
able points can be gotten by visiting
that department at the State Fair this
year.
The Fair management is offering
| rent free stalls for horses and live
stock. 1t is expected that some fine
animals will be there for the Fair fol
advertising purposes.
Two big football games between
four of the leading colleges of the
State are important events for the
week. On Wednesday morning, Octo-
ber %, at II a. NJ, Newberry col
lege, of Newberry, and Wofford col
lege of Spartanburg, play on the Fair
grounds. On Thursday morning, Oc-
| tober 20, at 1880 a. m. Clemson col
lege and the University of South Car.
| olina will meet for their annual con.
test. Both games will draw thou
sands of visitors and are being look.
| ed forward to with much interest.
Lovers of sports are further inter
ested in the Fair from the announce
! ment that there will be automobile
| races on the race trick at the Fair
grounds on Wednesday and Thursday
afternoons, October 2S and 20. There
| will be from $3.50 to $1,000 in prizes
| distributed and an interesting card
is being arranged. The races are
under the auspices of the Automobile
Racing association, and any one de-
string information or to participate
| can apply to the Automobile Racing
association, 1910 Sumter street, Co
| lumbia, S. C.
When the management of the State
Fair was looking for an attraction
that would please, instruct and thrill
the public, the choice fell on Pan
ama," the magnificent pyrotechnic
drama of the North American Display
Fireworks company. A contract,
which has been concluded, with j.
Saunders Gordon, president of that
company, gives assurance that the ex-
hibition, the most modern and COM
plete of it's kind in the world, will be
given in full during the State Fair on
the nights of October 27, %, 20. 80.
The Panama drama, which shows
the canal in peace and war, has 800
gorgeously costused performers. Big
and realistic as 1t is, it is but one
half of the evenings entertainment.
The other half Will be splendid ex-
hibition of fireworks, including set
pieces, rockets, and shells of all kinds
and sizes, meteoric showers, scenic
and artistic effects, and special enter
tainment features.
The scenery, which shows the At
lantic end of the canal, the Gatun
lock, and the tropical city of Colon,
is new, and the costumes, properties
AMI effects: of the production are also
new and artistic throughout. The
lighting system is modern and on