The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1925-09-02
Northwest Dairy
Exposition Plans
Being Made
AGRICULTURAL LEADERS OF
NORTHWEST TO MEET SOON.
JUNIOR DAIRY SHOW AND
CLUB WORK IMPORTANT.

When the general committee of
the Northwest Dairy Exposition meets
on the exposition grounds at the Min
nesota State Fair Thursday, Septem-
Der 10, there will be gathered the
leading business and agricultural in
terests in the Northwest to discuss
the future Of balanced agriculture in
this territory.
The general committee consists of
95 leaders of agricultural thought
from seven states. They were ap-
pointed to serve on the committee by
Governor Theodore Christensen.
Those who will gather for the con-
ference include practical farmers and
leaders in transportation, finance,
agricultural education, manufacture
ing, journalism, and wholesale and
retail mercantile business.
Special rates are offered by all
railroads running into the Twin Gil
ties for the period of the Northwest
Dairy Exposition and state fair. The
low fare rates range from the fare
and-a-third round trip from any point
in the state, to special coach excur-
sion rates as low as one cent a mile.
South Dakota farmers and business
men from as far west as the Missouri
river will come to the exposition on
an excursion train over the Minneapo-
lis & st. Louis railroad at the pen
ny-a-mile rate.
The special train will leave Alaska,
S. D., on September and arrive in
the Twin Cities the same evening. The
dairy enthusiasts from the Sunshine
state will spend all of September 9
at the dairy exposition. The low
rate tickets are good until midnight
of September 10.
Cattle entries for the fair and ex-
position show a great array of ami
mails of the standard breeds, both
dairy and beef. Altogether there are
1910 individuals entered for compe-
beef animals, SOB.
In competition for the $15,555 dairy
cattle prize money will be 342 Hol-
stems. 127 Jerseys, 158 Guernseys, %
Ayrshire, and 81 Brown Swiss.
| Entered in beef cattle classes are
242 Shorthorns, 80 Herefords, 70 Alb
erdeen-Angus, II Red Polled and 20
Fat Cattle. They will compete for
$13,243 in premiums offered by the
Minnesota State Fair and the North
west Dairy Exposition committee.
Fully LOO boys and girls will COM
pete for high honors in club work at
the exposition and fair according to
T. A. Erickson, state boy and girls
club leader. More than $50 Of them
are calf club members and will be
on hand with their animals.
The Junior Dairy Show. This unit
is given over entirely to the boy and
girl calf club members. They will
have their own barn, their own judi
ges, and teams will give continual
demonstrations in their own arena.
Many of the boys and girls en-
tered in club work contests will COM
pete for high honors in health. The
Northwest Dairy Exposition COM
mittee supplements the regular health
work prize money at the fair with
$3.50 which is used exclusively as
health prizes for club work contest
ants.
Planning of educational exhibits is
virtually complete, according to Ed
ward Barr, secretary and executive
director of the exposition committee.
Six men, a University professor,
graduate student at the University,
two cabinet makers, a chemist and
foreman OF paint factory are en-
gagged in constructing a graphic dis
play of the enormous losses result
ing from weeds in grain seed each
year.
Panel showing the significance of
the purebred sire in relation to the
prosperity of the Northwest are now
under construction and will be set up
within the next week.
/. Other exhibits will show the sugar
beet industry from the seed to the
sugar bowl, the value of milk and
milk products to the average consum-
er, and the benefit derived by the
housewife in buying prime cuts Of
meat, and the increased profits for
the stock feeder in the breeding and
feeding of prime animals. This dis
play is the United States Department