St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1921-08-27
FARMERS ASKED
TO MAKE FAIR
REPRESENT
FARM
A Good Fair Helps To Adj
vertise Your Products
to the Buyer.
HELPS SOLVE
MARKET PROBLEM
Catalog is Now Ready for
Press and Will Soon
Be Distributed.

The Parish Fair catalog will be
on the press in a few days. Since
new interest has been awakened in
agriculture in st. Tammany parish,
with the formation Of community
organizations and the probability OF
parish growers organization be-
ing formed soon, the success of the
parish fair should be matter Of
greater pride than ever before. A
good display this fall will bring
nearer the solution Of the problem
OF marketing. 1t is much easier to
market and to secure a good price
for products coming from high
grade producing section than from
one unknown in the market. The
parish fair is an advertisement Of
what can be done by the farmer.
The following article from The
Progressive Farmer is timely and in
teresting::
Have the Best of Something-Then
Exhibit 1t.
Every farmer should strive to have
something that is the best of its kind
in the county or community.
1t may be the finest Percheron, cr
Jersey, or Shorthorn, or Duroc, CT
.Merino; the finest mule; the best
sllo; the best terraced hillsides; the
finest patch of alfalfa; the prettiest
hoe; the most beautiful towering
shrubs or shade trees; the most fruit
full orchard; the best soy beans; the
prettiest pasture or meadow. Or he
may content himself with producing
the earliest cotton bale each year,
the finest butter, the most uniform
sweet potatoes, the highest scoring
seed corn, the most luscious honey,
Or the finest bird dogs.
1t doesn't matter SO much which
of your products is the best, provided
only that you have the ambition to
have the best of something. For the
| desire to. have the very best of any
one thing will inevitably breed in you
the qualities that will give you great
er success in al! other lines of effort.
The next thing we wish to urge is
this: Having made up your mind
to have the best of something, ar
range to exhibit it at you state, dis
trict, county, or local fair next fall.
The decision to exhibit the product
will help you. 1t will help you be-
cause it will make you more careful
and persistent and thoroughgoing in
you struggle for the highest perfec-
tion. You will learn more about the
best methods. And you will prac-
tice more of the best methods you al
ready know. You will also find more
zest and eagerness in doing your
work.
Moreover, in making an exhibit you
will help other people. Finding that
you have attained high standard
of progress or achievement will in
spire others to do likewise.
Ask for catalogs Of your state and
county fairs. II plans have not yet
been made for a community fair, see
your county agent and find out If ono
cannot now be decided on and a
premium list announced this spring.
Then decide just what state and local
prizes you will try for next fall
also which prizes mother and the
boys and girls will try for.
The whole year will be happier il
each member of the family decides
now to do his level best with some
crop or animal or some form of
household production and exhibit the
results at some fair next fall. If q
prize is won this year, good and well.
If not, the knowledge gained and
progress made will alone be worth
all. the effort, and this will help cap
ture prizes and blue ribbons In later
years.