Grainger County news. (Rutledge, Tenn.) 1917-current, 1920-10-06
Attendance at Fairs Throughout
the State Break all Previous
Records

Reports coming from division,
county and community fairs from
one end of Tennessee to the other
with few exceptions show that the
attendance at these fairs this year
has broken all previous records.
Two of the big fairs held in the
state during the past week were at
Knoxville and at Memphis and both
were successful beyond expectations,
attendance records being smashed
and the quality Of products and live
stock exhibited being far better than
ever before. The quality of live
stock of all kinds seen at the various
fairs this year show a vast improve
ment over previous years. This in
dicates that Tennessee breeders real
ize the folly Of raising scrub stock
instead of the higher grade, as the
returns from the latter are more sat
isfactory and renumerative. A fea-
ture of the agricultural displays is
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seen at the fairs now are by farm
ers' organizations representing a GER
tain community, or a county as
whole. 1t shows that the farmers are
finding they can accomplish greater
and better results by cooperating
than they can single handed and their
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they are fighting their problems in
their communities together This
spirit will bring better day for
them and for every citizen of the
state.
'No single agency is such a po-
tent instructor of agriculture as the
fair, and the bigger the fair the
greater its value as an educational
force, says DIR. H. A. Morgan, pres
ident of the University of Tennessee.
Gar more of us receive our most
lasting impressions from things seen
than any other way, Show me- has
become more than a suggestion; it is
basic in the education of a lot of
folks. And the fairs show u.s."
To the farmer the fair affords
world of opportunity for observa-
ton and comparison. Nobody who
has attended community or county or
division fair or the state fair this
year could fail to have been impress
ed by the exhibits made by the club
boys of the various communities and
counties as we'll as those of individ-
usual farmers. Keen competition has
resulted in a steady Improvement in
quality of corn exhibits. What five
years ago would have been good ex-
hibit would hardly find place on the
table today. And with the constant
increase in the quality of exhibits
there has come a better realization
of what good corn is and the farmer
tries to grow as good corn as he sees
at the fair. The same is true of ev-
evry crop, of ever yexhibit of every
kind, and of livestock.
The livestock show is great at
traction for the farmer, and his great
instructor as well. Nothing but the
best gets the blue ribbon these days
The farmer and the breeder find in
spiration in the splendid animals
shown at the fairs. 1t is far cry
from the scrub milk COW to the reg
lister of merit Jersey; from the scrub
bell bull to the splendid purebred
Angus, Shorthorn, or Hereford; from
the razor-back hog to the wonderful
purebred porker. Many a man has
gone home from the various fairs
this year with a determination to
have better livestock on his farm.
And so the fair is the measure Of
progress in all that pertains to agri-
culture. Every fair has it's own pc
culiar value. The community fair
brings together the products and peo-
pie of a nejghborhood where good
natured competition helps to bring
out the best that each farm pro-
duces. The county fairs these days
are developing a competition of COM
munities as well as individuals which
stimulates local pride and endeavor.
In the bigger fairs the best exhibits
of the smaller fairs are seen and
there is competition between coun-
ties. All this indicates greater agri-
culture for Tennessee in the years
to come.
Hawkins Club Members Again Win