Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 August 1912 — PURDUE AT STATE FAIR. [ARTICLE]

PURDUE AT STATE FAIR.

Twenty Experts Will Lecture to lndl« ana Farmers. A corps of twenty experts from Purdue University will spend the week at the Indiana State Fair, opening on Sept. 2, and will attempt to make the fair of greatest possible educational value. The Instruction will he chiefly along agricultural and household economic lines. The Purdue building, not far from the Coliseum, will be utilized by the instructors from the university, as well as for the fair’s general show of dairy products, and the instruction will be divided into the following departments: Animal husbandry, poultry, soils and crops, dairy, botany, chemistry, veterinary, agricultural extension, household economics. The prime purpose of sending such a fore® of instructors to the fair is to give farmers who cannot attend the university at Lafayette the practical Information that is available to the students. The farmers will have opportunity to talk with the instructors, see the Purdue displays, witness the demonstrations —all to the end of making the farms of the state more productive. The Purdue men will each day give lectures and demonstrations, and will condiict live stock and corn judging contests for Indiana boys between sixteen and twenty years, who have not taken the eight weeks’ course or any of the longer courses at Purdue. Boys who enter the judging contest must send their names to Charles Downing, secretary of the fair, before Sept. 3. The prizes will be free scholarships at Purdue.

State Fair Outdoor Attraction*. The committee - of amusements of the Indiana state fair, which will ba held at Indianapolis, Ind. September 2nd to 6th inclusive, 1912, have arranged for one of the best programs of free outdoor attractions ever seen at any state fair in America. Among the many features booked are Provost & Brown, the comedy novelty entertainers, featuring, the only cork screw kid in the world. Bartelli & Murphy, premier comedy acrobats in their side-splitting specialty, entitled “Bumps & Falls.” The Kroneman Bros. An attraction without a parallel. America’s foremost head balancers and oomedy acrobats, performing hazardous and amusing tricks never seen before, and introducing their world famed novelty acrobatic dance, entitled “That Tall Dancing Lady.” Casey & Milligan in their own pantomimic creation entitled, “Play Ball.” The Famous Abdallah Troupe, Whirlwind Acrobats. A pulse quickening performance in which sensational feats of lofty ground tumbling and pyramiding are executed The Five Merkel Sisters. Tha most marvelous woman act ever brought to America. They perform lightning acrobatic feat®, hand stand balancing and wonderful oontortiCK evolution*. _ ,