The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1922-02-09
THE BUSINESS END OF
THE FAIR

| eSA toAAAOAI lOuS W W remembered.
THE BUSINESS END OF
THE FAIR
In all that we have said we have
not touched upon the things of
greatest value connected with the
fair. We refer to the production of
live stock and the spreading of pure
breeds and pure seeds due to the
exhibition of the finer results OBJ
tanned by using them. The man who
has been raising the common stuff
either in animal or vegetable and
has not been convinced of the wis
dom of spending higher price to
get start in pure breeds and pure
seeds, needs to have things put on
exhibit once a year where he can see
the difference in the cost of produc-
ton and the difference in the money
that the produce sells for. He needs
also to be shown the difference of
quality OF these things, the rapidity |
of their growth and the amount of
the Yield, and 1t is only by the CO.
operation of the whole population |
bringing in the products to show
just what they have done and how |
they have done it, that these great
popular lessons can be driven home.
Last years stock exhibit will spread |
and increase the interest in pure
bred stock more than anything else
that has been done in many years.
Men who exhibited stock last year
and won premiums to pay the ex-
penses and found an unexpected
market for their animals at good 4
prices are keen to exhibit again next
year, and they are telling their
friends that they are building great
interest in every branch of the in
dustry. To skip a year in the ex-
hibitions at the fair is to stop the
growth of this favorable educational
and business enterprise.
Stock Associations
Help
The pure bred stock associations
thru the different states, both east !.
and west, have got so they appro-
pirate large sums of money to be I
used in connection with fairs, and !,
Blackfoot has not been receiving
those things because the men that I
put on the fair have not known 9
about them and were not in touch
with those associations, and now just '
when so many fairs are taking a
for year or two it is a
rood time for Blackfoot to come Y
onward and get all of these appro- L
'riations that it can from the stock
'rowers' associations, for when there
re only few fairs to take money p
hey can afford to be more liberal "
With those few fairs. One associa- a.
ion has already sent in it's offer to Il
800 and there are u
core or more of such associations 81
hat might be successfully solicited a
d.
losing Legislative h,
[elp r.
Blackfoot has been building up m
IS fair to get in position where w
could ask for and secure legisla- al
I've appropriation, and now when 81
ne Montana state fair has given up tn
)r 1922 and when there is grave er
oubt about there being any in sew fiji
raj other important places it is es
ood time for Bingham county peo- tn
lie to go in stronger than ever and m
AXE theirs great success SO that tn
lr 'repr esentatives in the legislature op
IN present the matter one year from WE
ow to the senate and house and 1t
AXE showing on which a state of
may be granted II any gr
oney is used for such purposes. rit
urs To the On
rOnt ~
When the great ebb and flow Of pls
migration begins to be felt again, as
hen the railroad companies begin TIL
receive streams of inquiries for tire
formation for home seekers in CO,
aho, when commercial clubs have wa
get busy to respond to such in out
tries, when it is brought to the at bee
1tion of the legislature that Idaho Ing
s chance to get its portion of pre-
CHI settlers, our fair will be appre- the
tied by the administration. the
People coming west with money the
invest when the department OF tre
migration is looking for moving so
,tures of scenes of current fairs, mi,
d find none but Blackfoot to draw hay
on then the state will be glad that PEG
ackfoot has kept the home fires 10y
rning in these respects, and a leg trie
ature looking forward to a great abb
lterial development of the state in
d an influx Of well-to-do people tio1
h money to develop it, Blackfoot on
h Its prosperous and successful liev
RS would be in an enviable posi- in
with the legislature and before one
the people of the state. its
In 1921 two or three thousand pal,
lars had to be invested in dol
at the fair grounds to eve
Ike the fair success and we still miu
re the improvements, so for the der
t Of about $4,000 paid out of the five
lnty treasury we had an excep- TAX
nally good fair, four days Of good, CON
an sport and exhibitions of the L
ducts Of the country, the products hun
this and other counties, an exhibi- mat
a that was good business builder $50
h for the present and for the fu- peo
9, we established the fact in the nett
die mind that Bingham county BEEF
put on successful fair, and greet
' when times are little tight, wis,
On the county commissioners an are
nee that thew believe that fhav tina 4