The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-09-12
WORKMEN BUSY At
STATE FAIR GROUNDS
Many Reservations for Live
Stock and Agricultural
Displays Made

Officials of the Alabama State Fair as
ISOLATION have a large crew of workmen
busy at the fair grounds, making ready
for the opening of the 1916 fair october
Buildings are being reprinted and re-
paired and additions are being made In
order to take care of the increased de-
mand for space allotments on the part OF
agricultural exhibitors and live stock ex-
hibits
The live stock show of this years fair
will be the greatest ever held In the
south and already, Secretary Fowkles
states. the entries of blooded cattle and
hogs have reached number far IN ex-
cess of any previous fair. In times past
owners of thoroughbred cattle were afraid
to send their stock into Birmingham ana
exhibit It at the fair because OF the lack
of dipping watts in the county. however
since the fight for tick eradication has
been undertaken in systematic way,
and there appears to be probability
of stamping out the cattle scourge, the
raisers of blooded cattle want their cat
tie exhibited and are asking for so mucn
space that an enlargement of the live
stock building has become necessary
The agricultural exhibit at this year 8
fair will be the best ever held, in the
opinion Of President R. A. Brown Of
the fair association, the July and Au-
gust floods to the contrary notwith-
standing. He says that the applica-
ticns for space from all previous county
exhibitors continue undated, and the
probabilities are the number of exhibits
this year will be considerably larger than
they were last year The exhibitors insist
that the crops of Alabama were not so
badly damaged that the state cannot
make an excellent showing at any fair
and against any state in the union.
The effects of the Investigation of
crops movement will be seen at the fair
this year. The boil weevil has injured
cotton in many localities in the state,
but throughout the state the exhibits
will be along a more diversified line
than has obtained in the past. Exhibits
of corn will be on display from what
has in the past been regarded as purely
cotton growing sections of the state.
Wheat will be shown that was grown
in the Alabama portion of the Tennessee
valley and oats will be on display in
quantities.
The mining and manufacturing interests
of Birmingham and other parts of the
state will be well represented in the min
ing and manufacturing building.
The amusement features of the fair
this year will exceed anything of the
sort ever offered to Alabamians One of
tho best bands ever engaged for any
fair will play daily at the grandstand
and II free acts, many of them i'm
ported from Europe, especially for the
fair, will be staged twice daily in front
of the grandstand. This band will have
IS pieces and will be the equal of any
concert band that has appeared In Biz
mingham.
A pyrotechnic display of unusual mag
of $1,000 night being blown up in smoke
for the amusement OF fair visitors. Three
hundred people will take part in the fire.
works display each night. Battles Of the
air will be staged, and wonderful me-
chanical effects will be obtained by the
fireworks company In charge Of the dis
play.
Secretary Sam H. Fowlkes of the fair
association is of the opinion the 1916 fair
will exceed all previous fairs in Birming-
ham. And he says absolutely everything
must and will start on the scheduled time.
I'VE will be ready at o'clock on the
morning of October s." is his statement