Mansfield mirror. (Mansfield, Wright County, Mo.) 1908-1957, 1917-08-16
BIG CROPS FOR FAIR
The Exhibits at Mansfield
. This Fall Promise to be
Unusually Good

Mansfield's Sixth Annual Az
ricultural and Stock Show, tn
Worlds Fair of the Ozarks, pro
misses to be the biggest and bes
ever given here. Wright count!
can boast of a 1917 oats crop o
u bushels to the acre; corn, 81
bushels to the acre, and whea
, that will make big loaves O.
} of bread to feed the nations
There are not enough freight
cars on the entire Frisco System
to haul away the pumpkins rails
ed around here. From the stor.
les current some are so large
that only one could be loaded
on a fiat car. Beans are not
put in gallon buckets or in mark.
ct baskets, but they say they
put the side boards on the farm
wagons and haul'em in, the boys
and girls going down the rows
and filling the wagons to over.
flowing. And tomatoes when
you are able to get one lin a
wagon you are doing we'll. There
are "spuds" IN abundance, and
lots of everything good to eat.
The Council of Defense sent
out lecturers and plead with the
people to raise big crop, plant
every foot of ground, ETC., and
so they, along with the tiller of
the soil and a kind Providence,
are responsible for the big blow
the Ozarks are delivering to the
H. G. L. This years crops are
said to be the largest over grown
in Wright county, and the coun.
try around Mansfield has done
its full share. Aud there is lots
of good stock here too, which,
we are informed, will be on ex.
hibition here.
The state fruit experiment
station has promised the fair
com m,ttee an exhibit, and the
state poultry experiment station
has promised to do every thing
possible towards assisting the
fair here. And right here we
might add that they hold there
national egg-laying contests in
which hens from various states
compete for record of egg pro-
duction. Both these institutions
are located in Wright county.
President Wilson and Gov.
Gardner plead with the people
to give agricultural exhibits
this fall. the latter saying that
in this year of national stress,
we face peculiar duty to our
State. Missouri, as one of the
national units, faces a duty to
the nation. 1t is the duty of
contributing in every way and
in every detail to the sustenance
of the national life and the pro-
motion of patriotism, production
and preparedness,
Missouri has never lacked in
the essentials of patriotism nor
the ability to produce. She has
been prepared in the past to
meet all demands upon her re.
sources: but in this year she
will be called upon to make
double effort in these directions
He adds that the fair is the in.
centive to better products of the
farm and field, the orchard and
garden, the factory and home,
the schools and the arts, and has
merited the support the people
of Missouri have given it. 1t has
induced by comparison a spirit
of competition that has resulted
in better things in a material,
social and economic way.
Never was the call so urgent
as now for alert citizenship,
economy in production cost, in
utilization of the States natural
resources without waste.
He urges the support in ex.
their products and
wares of all loyal MissOurians,
as patriotic duty.
Patriotism, productivity and
preparedness makes good mot
to in the governors opinion.
At the Mansfield show there
will also be plenty of good, clean.
free attractions and amusements
to please both young and old, so
m q lro IN uOnr mind t,> ,>,,,o