The Prescott daily news., 1916-10-06
Romance of Agriculture to be Produced at St. Louis
 V. p. Week.
OPENS WITH INDIAN SCENE
And Closes With Formal Emanci- patton of Horse and Continuation of the Romance in Era of
 Power Machinery.

The Romance of Agriculture, a pageant in five episodes depicting the evolution of farm equipment and farm practice from the day of the Indian to the presegt day, will be a feature of the St Louis Agricultural Fair october ? to (Veiled Prophet Week., according to announcement by John T. Stinson, secretary, who prior to going to St. Louis to assume his present post was secretary of the Missouri State Fair, at Sedalia.
 Never before anywhere in the world has so elaborate a portrayal of the progress in agriculture been under. taken, officers of the fair say. A hundred or more actors and actresses in costume, are announced to take part in the pageant, which is to be of the pantomime type.
 Scenario of Agricultural Pageant.
 An experienced pageant master is to direct the staging of the pageant the scenario of which follows;
 Episode No. 1.-Peaceful pursuits of the native Indian. The annual spring dance and applications to the good spirit for ample sunshine with showers. Indian braves de- part for their hunting grounds. Squaws prepare the ground for crops and plant the seed corn. They shell the corn and grind 1t in stone mills for daily use. Braves return from their hunt. All take part in a festival of rejoicing.
 Episode No. 2.-Arrival of the pioneers, who are welcomed by the Indians Newcomers trade for grain and lands. Indians depart for homes in the far west. Crude methods of preparing the land for the crops. Flowing with oxen, cows and horses and by other pioneer methods. Harvesting with sickle. by the OK
 First Steel Flow Arrives.
 Episode No. S.-Arrival of the first steel blow. Drawn by two horses. 1t gives great satisfaction and marks the first real step in as- ricultural progress. The walking cultivator is shown, harvesting with cradle and threshing with fails The first grain binder Recrea- ton, Virginia reel.
 Episode No. 4-Westward the star of empire and agricultural edu- cation wend their way. The pro- gressive young farmer brings home the newest sulky blow, which is fol lowed by gang blow, riding cul tivator. grain binders. and other horse-drawn machinery. The lawn party. Sons and daughters of prosperous farmers welcome the dawn of a new agricultural era.
 Emancipation of the Horse.
 Episode No. 5.-Students return to their homes from the State Az ricultural College, in automobiles. They are followed by farm tractors drawing tractor blows, tractor har- rows, seeding machines and har- vesters. The horse is decorated with floral tributes and is declared emancipated from the slavery to which he has long been subjected. Finale: The romance of agricul- ture gives way to POWER
 The scenario was written for the occasion by Frank E. Goodwin, chair man of the Agricultural Pageant Con- mittee and superintendent of the Ma chinery Department. MT. Goodwin is president of the St. Louis Tractor Farming Association and editor of Farm Machinery-Farm Power.
 Some of the most antique blows in the country, including that of Daniel Webster, have been loaned for use in the pageant. Webster's blow, which is about a century old and occupies a place of honor in the museum of the Oliver Chilled Plow Works, is of wood, plated in places with iron. Web. ster operated 1t on his farm in Massa- chusetts.
 Dairy Cattle Show to Excel.
 Mir. Goodwin is but one of a number of experts whom Mir Stinson, himself a technical man (former professor of horticulture at the University of Arkansas), has induced to manage de- partments. P. NJ. Brandt, assistant to the dean of the State Agricultural College, Columbia, Mo, is superin- teudent of the Cattle Department of the fair and is planning what the of ficers of the fair believe will prove one of the finest dairy cattle shows fin the history of the country. Four herds of Ayershire cattle above have been promised. The other h~ecda to be exhibited are the Guern y. the Holstein and the Jersey.
 Good Saddle Horse Show Famed
 A saddle horse show regarded as having more than average merit is being organized by James II. Bright of St. Louis, superintendent of the Horse Department. E. H. Hughes of Columbia, Mo, is serving as superin- tendent of the Swine and Sheep De partment. Henry Mayer of Overland, Mo, is superintendent of the Agricul- tural Department. The Horticultural Department has as it's superintendent Henry C.. Irish of St. Louis. president