The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1919-02-12
Redwood County Will
Have Bigger Co. Fair
Stock Pavilion Will Be Built and Other inducements Made
For Farmers to Increase Exhibits at Biggest Little Fair
In State September d to Is
PREMIUMS TO BE LARGELY INCREASED
Board of Directors Votes Unanimously for Longer Fair Bigger
Fair Broader Fair. and Better Fair

Redwood County has had the best
county fair in the state of Minnesota
for the past several years but this
year she is going one better and make
it the best County Fair any where in
the Northwest. The little old home
county has incidentally, no wish to
crowd the state fair off the map, but
if it gets in our way in the onward
march, it must just stand the conse-
quencesi
A meeting of the Board of Directors
of the Redwood County Agricultural
Association was held last week at
which it was unanimously decided to
hold the fair five days instead of the
usual four, to increase the premiums
materially on certain classes of pure
bred stock and 20 put on a spectacular
fireworks dislay which is to be quite
different from anything Redwood
County has ever seen. An effort will
be also made to secure better free at
fractions than have ever been present
ed before and an airplane will also be
secured for exhibition and flights for
the iast four days.
One of the most progressive move
ments of this very progressive Board
of Directors is to build a stock paw
hon for the showing of animals, the
holding Of sales etc. Last year the
new hog barn was a splendid demon
stratloa of what may be done with
hog exhibits and hog sales when the
quarters provided are adequate for
both shelter and sales purposes. De-
tails of the new building have not yet
been worked out but that there will
be such building and that it will be
a creditable addition to the Redwood
County fair grounds is assured.
Premiums are also to be materially
increased according to the action of
the premium committee which met
Friday afternoon. In the hog depart-
ment alone the increase has been con-
siderable, and a number of classes has
also been added. Other live stock de-
partments will also receive the atten-
ton of The committee and everything
possible be done to induce breeders to
bring in their high class animals for
exhibit
The fair management has rightly
decided that the fair which has be-
come one of the biggest institutions
of the county must either go ahead
or it will automatically decrease in its
value to the community; fair, like
any other business must grow or die
there can be no standing still. This
realization was big factor in the de-
cision of the management 20 add an
other day to the fair season. to in
crease the attraction features and 3he
premiums even at a considerable ex-
pense. The heightened season means
four racing programs instead of three,
four nights shows instead of three, and
the added gate receipts are expected
to defray the increased expense of the
better attraction program offered,
with its several special features.
The announcement of the manage
ment is the elimination of the wish
of many of the stockholders in the
Agricultural Association who have
been ambitious to see the county,
which has such splendid fair record,
forge to the front ranks as the best
fair county in the state. The fairs Of
the past several years have been I'M
qualified successes and the 1919 event
is well on the way to go them all one
better.