Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-08-31
COUNTIES
In line FOR
STATE FAIR
Number Last 5 Years
Has Been Is; Expect 35
for 1922.

Detailed information concerning the
Montana state fair at Helena, compiled
by the Montana Farmer, published at
Great Falls, was b~roadcasted owe The
Tribune's radio broadcasting station.
KDYS, Wednesday night, through the
agricultural radiophone broadcasting
service of the Farmer.
The following news story was broad
casted by the Farmer:
Thirty Montana counties have taken
action to exhibit entries from their
farms in the farm products show of the
Montana State fair. September % to
30, under the new plan of grouping ex-
hibits by classes and variety rather
than by counties. The state fair office
is confident that the number of entries
represented in the agricultural show
at the fair will at least reach 81. The
average number of counties with ex-
hibits at the Montana State fair for
the last five years has been Is.
The exhibits Will be set up in five
main shows: Sheaf and threshed grain.
grasses and forage plants, corn, pota-
toes and vegetables and root crops
These exhibits are gathered at home
by the counties or through community
and county fairs, but they are arranged
and will be shown at the state fair by
the state fair management itself, which
pays all expenses at the Helena end of
the line.
The counties that are assured as ex-
hibitors this year are Blaine. Carter
Cascade, Custer, Daniels, Fallon. Fer
gus, Gallatin. Golden Valley. Jefferson
Judith Basin, Lewis and Clark. Lincoln
Madison, McCone, Musselshell, Park
Phillips Pondera, Powder River, Ra-
valli. Richland, Sanders, Silver Bow,
Saltwater, Valley, Wibaux and Yellow
stone. Several more have announced
their intention, but have not completed
arrangements for exhibit.
Word from Helena is to the effect
that this change in plan of grouping is
a life saver this year, in view of the
fact that on July %; fire caused BY
lightning destroyed the main exhibit
hall at the fair grounds, which had
housed the agricultural show in the
past. As it is, the horticultural build
ing. the newest and one of the best
structures on the fair grounds, will be
taken over entirely for the farm prod
| ucts show. but the management of the
fair saws it would have been next to
impossible to erect and decorate booths
for county collective shows this year
while it is relatively simple to prepare
the setting for the five main divisions
of the composite agricultural show
The primary object back of the change
;s to make the state fair q more forci-
hle educational medium for the benefit
of agriculture in this state.
Idea Easier Put Over
II is felt, for example, that by group
ing all varieties of potatoes in one big
potato show, comparisons can be drawn
and an idea of type and standard gained
that was next to impossible when ex-
hibits of the same variety and class
were scattered throughout a large
number of county collective booths. II
is planned to make these combined
shows of increased educational value by
holding demonstrations in each one
such as the grain-grading ~demonstra-
ton in the grain division, the potato
grading school in the potato division
and in all ways to bring the farmer in