Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1920-02-13

sin, it is interesting to learn that
state fair officials can control Septem-
Der weather conditions to any great
extent. We would say that more than
fifty per cent of all state fairs held in
the last twenty years have been ef-
fected more or less by wet weather
during the equinox month. Some
years ago the date was set early one
year in order to accommodate live
stock exhibitors with an unbroken
circuit. Such protest went up then
that the next year the date went
back to where it has been for severa
years until now. AS far as northern
Wisconsin is concerned that date is
too early, and judging from our eX-
change list, from which we reprint
three articles, it is hard to see where
Mr.. Remey "gets that Stuff about all
of northern Wisconsin being in line
with the early fair idea.
Just what influence, we wonder,
has the southern tier of counties in
Wisconsin used on the State Fair Adj
visory Board to cause it to set the
date of the annual fair to begin in
Augusta Is it that our southern
brothers, bereft of prizes and jealous
of what nature does to crops in upper
Wisconsin,, have induced the board to
change tl1asfair to date which will
make it practically impossible for the
upper tier of counties to make exhib-
it. This at least would assure the
southern fellows an opportunity of re-
turning to their homes with the much
coveted ribbons.
We always have held to the opinion
that county fairs and state fairs we're
mainly to- encourage farm develop
ment. The state fair at Milwaukee has
unquestionably contributed it's share
to the development of Oneida and sur
rounding counties. Who, contemplate
ing a farm, could do better than to To-
cate where he knows the best things
can be grown; after seeing the fine
exhibits of potatoes which take
prizes; after viewing with his own
eyes the many other crops suitable
for this region, and hearing with his
own ears the Judgment of experts at
tile state fair?
1t must be that those in the south
are jealous. Rkinelander Daily News
Northern Wisconsin farmers are up
in arms because they think that the
state fair committee is showing favor
itism to the farmers of the southern
part of the state. The committee of
fers the suggestion that our farmers
send down last years samples but
this suggestion is not taken kindly,
When it is known that the Ashland
county fair was complained of as be.
ing too early for the harvest, it GER
tainly shows that August is out of
the question for northern farmers to
show their produce in the state fair.
In fact, if this date is kept it will bar
out northern Wisconsin farmers en-
tirely.-Ashland Daily Press.
A meeting of representatives of all
the fair associations in northern Wis
consin and others who are interested
in the development of this section of
the state will be held in Waasau Feb.
II, to make formal protest against
the holding of the state fair at the
early date set by the state fair board.
It is commended that the northern
part of the state is developing rapidly
in farming and stock raising and that
much of the development of this sec
tion is due to the advertising secured
through exhibits at the state fair. At
the early dates set crops will not be
fully matured and it will not be posi-
BILE to make representative exhibits
Milwaukee Journal.