Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1914-10-09
farm PRODUCTS
FAIR BENEFITS
Annual Agricultural Exhibit
Great Aid to Development
and Prosperity.
(by DIR. w. H. Dalrymple, NJ. r. C. V
S., in Southern Farmer.

(By DR.. w. H. Dalrymple, NJ. r. C. v
S., in Southern Farmer.
The benefits to be derived from an
agricultural fair are much greater
and more numerous than may appear
on the surface to the casual observer
The mere exhibition of farm pro-
ducts, is of itself. a good thing, but if
this were the sole reason for getting
up a fair, the true object would be
very widely missed.
In the first place, the fair is, or
ought to be, a business proposition
for the farmer, AID, incidentally, for
al with whom the farmer comes in
contact in business way, such as
the banker, the merchant, etc, az
any enterprise which is calculated to
benefit the farmer, by increasing his
profits and his income generally,
can not fail to benefit all other
branches of industry in the commu-
nifty.
Sometimes the size of the pre-
NUNS offered is the deciding factor
as to whether or not a farmer viii
go to the trouble and a little ext:'s
expense Of preparing his product
whether live stock or field crops, fol
exhibition at the fair. But while tht
premium, small as it may sometime:
be, helps to defray part of the eX-
pense of preparation, it is short
sighted policy to allow the size Of
the premium to decide the question
of whether or not the farmer shall
make ar exhibit.
Makes a Market.
Take, for example, a man witt
some good pure-bred cattle or hogs
the first prize may only be the
moderate sum of So. But the win
ming of that s., which is cquivalen
class at the fair, may be the means
of his being able to sell many ami
mails out of his herd at very hand
some profits. And besides this, he
has at once established a permanen
market for the variety and class o
animals he raises, and purchasers
know in future just where to go tt
procure what they want In othe1
words, his market is made, and il
has been made through his winning
of that little S. first premium, which
he may have looked upon as alto
gether too small to go to the trou
BILE of competing for.
The sole object, then, is not tht
winning of the little money prizS
but what that premium may bring
to him afterwards in his business as
a producer. So it would surely show
a lack of business sagacity to allow
small premium to stand in the way
Of the farmer and stock raiser max
ing due preparation to show the pes
he owns at the fair.
4 Great Educator.
The agricultural fair is a great edu
ca or, and the farmer needs it in his
business, and as a part of his brsl
ness. He may have at home what ne
considers an unbeatable product Of
some kind, and brings it to the fair
Some other farmer, with similar
product, also exhibits, and wins the
premium, DGCduSG Ills pIOuuCC 10 JUS
little bit better than the other Tel.
lows. There is disappointment, nat
urally, but the two are now together
and, by comparison, the man with tne
unbeatable" exhibit now sees fol
himself why he only received the
second prize. He has gained an eX-
perience by actual observation which
decides him in the determination to
return home and prepare an exhibit
for the following years fair which
will eclipse that of his previous
years competitor The fair, in this
way, stimulates that spirit of healthy
rivalry amongst competitors wn,c,
makes for greater excellence in oul
farm products of all kinds.
The farmer should bring to the fail
the best he has. If he should fai
to win the first time, he should
make close observation and compar-
ison and try to find out the reasons
for his failure. He should not De-
come discouraged, but should carry
the lessons he has learned lime with
him, put them into practice in the
of his product, and with