River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1914-07-30
THIS YEARS STATE FAIR TO Be
GREATEST IN STATES HISTORY
The Number of Exhibits Will be Larger and the
Class Will be Even Better Than Ever---Damaee
Done by Tornado Will be But Memory by Sept :
SPECIAL ATTRACTIONS.

In three aviation exhibitions each day
beginning Sept. 10.
Automobile races on Monday, Sept
IA.
Harness and running races Tuesday,
Wednesday, Thursday and Friday.
Free vaudeville attractions every At
ternoon.
Music furnished by eight bands and
one orchestra.
Beachey lin flying machine) and
oIdfieId lin automobiIe) probably will
race on Friday, Sept. 10.
At night all fair geek Milwaukee
will make special efforts to entertain
fair visitors. City will be especially
lighted, with music everywhere.
Milwaukee, Wis, July 14.-BiggeI
and better than ever; that's what the
State Fair this year will be.
When a tornado swept over the
grounds early in June, leaving trail
of damage amounting to 100000, II
was announced that it would not be
possible to hold this years fair. This
announcement, however, was not aU
thorized by the Wisconsin State Board
Of Agriculture and was absolutely
without foundation.
Discussing the damage at the fair
grounds, and plans for rebuilding and
repairing, President o. G. Rewey, OF
the Board, said today:
Rebuilding Is Going on.
"By the time the gates are thrown
open for the 1914 fair, every mark OF
the June tornado will have been eras-
ed. We have let the contracts for re
building all of the buildings Slown
down, and for making all other re-
pairs. The fence the Board will re-
build and repair itself. Most. Of the
work will be completed by Sept l.
''The grounds will be in better shape
for this years fair than they were ip
for the 1913 fair"
Horse Department Excellent.
What Vi the fair itself-the ok
hibits?
In the horse department. there will
be more exhibits than ever before, and
will be especially true of the draft
classifcations, in which the premiums
are more numerous and larger than
before. In one class special caAss1'
fication for Wisconsin horses, Clydes.
dale, has been provided by the Amerf
can Clydesdale association, and this
organization gives a special premium
of $1O0. To this amount the Wiscon'
sin State Board of Agriculture adds
another $500.
In order to more generally popular
fze the horse, the Board, together with
the Boards of Iowa, Minnesota, and Il
linois, is offering a saddle horse stake
for a purse of $1,000, In addition to
the regular saddle horse classes. This
has been done to stimulate the haT.
ness and saddle horse business. Sec
rotary Mackenzie announces that he
has already received many entries for
this special stake, and that 1t will
prove one of the best attractions at
the 1914 fair
In the Cattle Department.
In the cattle department the display
of dairy cattle will be by far the best
ever given, and the same can be said
of the beef cattle classifcations. Wis
consin is known the world over for
it's cattle, and the 1914 fair will add
to its renown in this respect.
In many instances the premiums
have been added to, in the Holstein.
Friesian class, for instance. Here pre-
miums will be given this year for
senior yearlings and junior yearlings
and for senior and junior calves, some
thing that newer has been done.
There are a great number of special
premiums, as usual, and the entry lists
to date indicate that the exhibits will
be greater in number and quality than
ever before.
Swine, Sheep and Poultry.
In the sheep department Wisconsin
will lead as usual. There have been
additions to the premium lists and to
the special prizes, and the entry list
to date shows many notable additions.
All who are interested in sheep can.
not afford to miss this years fair, for
q new mark will be set for number
and high class of exhibits.
The swine department will be by far
the best ever shown in Wisconsin.
A large amount of money has been
added to the premium list. Take for
instance the Poland-China Futurity
Prospects classification, managed and
guaranteed by the Poland-China Rec
ord association. The display will be
of unusually high class and exception
ally large.
In the poultry division over 1000
birds will be shown, and no other
state will be able to boast of as an ex.
tensive pigeon display.
A New County Building.
Entries to date in the Agricultural
department warrant the statement
that never before has this industry
been so largely or adequately repre-.
scented as it will be at the 1914 fair