Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 175, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 July 1912 — STATE FAIR'S EXTENT [ARTICLE]

STATE FAIR'S EXTENT

INDIANA EXPOSITION WILL OVERFLOW WITH ATTRACTIONS. Strong Features for City, Town and Country People Each Day and Night —Education for the Farm Men and Women. The Indiana state fair, highly flavor, •d with educational interest and entertaining features which appeal strongly to men, women and children from farm, town and city, will open its fifty-ninth exposition, at Indianapolis, on Labor Day, Sept. 2, and for five days and nights Hoosiers by the tens of thousands will attend this the one great event of the Indiana year which all people without caste or class enjoy —i. . • . ——

For people who go to the fair largely for entertainment, the exposition will offer a great array of attractions In concerts by four large bands, livestock shows and parades, a great building filled to capacity with fine art display, a rich show of Hoosier orchard and vineyard products, and another of poultry; trotting and pacing races, a "midway" of carnival shows. In addition to all of these features' which will alike interest and entertain people from town and farm, the fair will especially emphasize educational factors as magnets for men and women who are developing the great resources of the Hoosier soil. The very best that the state Is yielding in agricultural, horticultural, dairy products and blue blooded stock will be shown in endless array that the people from the farms may compare the displays with the yields of their own lands, and the fair exhibits will offer inspiration to men and women who strive for greater quality and quantity, for greater wealth and comforts which are sure to come from work intelligently done at home. Nearly forty acres of machinery for use in field, orchard, dairy and farm home will point out to fair visitors from the country the way to economize in their work and still achieve greater results. Combined with these educative examples which appeal to the eye, the fair will offer instructions of an intensely practical kind to farm workers in lectures and demonstrations on a long list of subjects. This instruction will be of collegiate quality for men and women who cannot take the time to attend an agricultural university. Farm chemistry, feed for live stock, crop and weed seeds, milk testing and butter making, reviving old orchards and the development of now, and household economics are some of the subjects which will be capably handled by twenty experts from Purdue university. State Entomologist Baldwin will have a large exhibit of insects that are enemies to the farm and will discuss methods of spraying for these evils and orchard diseases with which the farmer contends. X A general revision of the premium list has been made for the next fair, which is expected to Increase the quality of exhibits tn all departments where prize ribbons are awarded. The total prizes offered amount to 157.115, divided as follows: Races, $19,2v0; draft horses, $3,820; coach horses, |820; mules, $500; saddle horses, $480; saddlers in the horse show, $1,900; harness horses, $4,040; ponies, SB6O. This makes the total awards on horses $81,600. * _ Is the cattle department the prizes amount to $11,133, divided as follows: Beef breeds, $7,463; dual purposes, $872; dairy, $2,800. In other departments the totals are: Dairy and creamery, $214; boys’ judging contest, $260; sheep, $3,276; swine, $3,001; poultry, $8478; ajp3cußSte; $1,392; horticulture sssß; plants and flowers, $1,082; bees and honey, $148; table luxuries $355.TK; flne arts, $1,554JC