Nogales international., 1934-08-04
FAIR PLANS BIG
FARM PROGRAM
Barn Dance, Rural Events
Featured at Chicago
sa. Aug. II to 18.

Worlds Fair since it opened here
May 26. Most Of the throngs that
have thrilled to the new spec.
tacle, the new foreign villages
which offer In themselves a tour of
the world" the new. shows and the
new free entertainment projects.
are city dwellers. Chicagoans, Wis.
itors from other cities all over the
United States and visitors from for
eign countries have poured in, in
large numbers.
But the real farmer-visitors' inva-
sion Of A Century Of Progress has
not yet begun. 1t will reach it's peak
when the Fair celebrates Farm
Week, from August II to August
18, inclusive.
Last year Farm Week accounted
for the largest single weeks attend.
ance of the entire Fair. Plans 10
make the celebration interesting ANA
important to farmers are even more
elaborate now than last year, ac,
cording to the events division of the
exposition.
w. LIS. Barn Dance at Fair.
Saturday, August II, will lead off
the program with a massive farm
parade, including bands, farm i'm
plements, machinery and equipment
and farm animals. Depicting the
modernization of agriculture, it will
be one of the longest and most COM
prehensive pageants OF the entire
exposition.
Sunday, August II, will see spe-
cial music and farm programs in
terlinked with the observance of
Chicago Incorporation day, with
Chicago acting as host to the out
of-town multitudes.
Rexford Tugwell, assistant secre.
tary of agriculture, has been ill.,
vited to be the principal speaker
of the Farm Organization day pro-
gram Monday. Tuesday will be
farm radio day, with the entire Wis
Barn Dance" cast presenting a pro-
gram ia the Court of States; 10000
persons saw this event In 1888.
Aerial Sham Battle Planned.
The farmers wife will have her
day Wednesday, August Is, which
has been named Farm Women's
day, with special programs arranged
to pay, tribute to the women who
battled to carve a nation out OF
the wilderness Farm Youth day,
Thursday, will be full Of recogni-
tion of the future farmers of the
land, with emphasis on HI club
work.
Programs of Interest to rural
newspapers and magazines Will fea-
ture Farm Press day, Friday. Sat
urday, August Is. will he farm mu-
sic day, with it's high spot the gi-
gantic Chicagoland Music festival
in Soldier Field, adjoining the Fair
grounds. This annual event has at
tracted more than half million
persons in the four years of its
existence. This day will also see
many special contests, such as milk
maid, husband-calling and hog-call-
ing contests.
Saturday is also Illinois day.
There will be review OF 10000
troops and demonstrations by anti
aircraft artillery units, shooting
with tracer bullets at balloon tar
gets towed by airpianes.
Farm Exhibits Are Many.
During Farm Week parties Of
farmers will be taken on free guild
ed tours of the Fair grounds. Farm
visitors, with only a limited time
to spend, will this way be able to
see everything of vital interest to
them.
) Henry Ford's industriali2ed barn,
, where he shows how the farmer
may, at low cost, raise soy beans,
| obtain the residue and process it
| himself, making industrial products
! for which he can obtain profitable
| revenue, is one Of the new exhibits.
Another is the international Har
| vester cOmpany's radio-c0ntr0lled
tractor, which demonstrates how
farming may some day be done FROM
an easy chair Oh the veranda.
| Model farm homes will attract many
rural sightSeers. as will the exhibits
of the great packing plants and the
automobile manufacturers.
The Brook Hill Dairy farm. with
its model farm Of 1850, shows the
last word in modern milk produc-
ton, from cow to bottle. The In
ternational Egg Laying contest is il
huge laboratory where the farmer
may study the latest production
methods first hand. Scores of com
mercial exhibitors will have dis
plays of prime interest to Farm
| Week visitors.
Special Rates Lower Cost.
Special railroad and bus rates
will make it easier for the farmer
to get to the Fair this summer. All
tomobile agencies and oil stations