The commercial., September 24, 1915, Image 7

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SOUTHERN HERDS VILL SHOV AT THE BIG FAIR
GREATEST FAIR IN HISTORY OF SOUTH WILL
SOUTH A WINNER OF
LIVE STUCK HONORS
BE HELD AT MEMPHIS. SEPT. 26-OCT. 3
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Portune Is Offered in Premiums Stock Show Will Be Big-gest Yet,
and Many Splendid Amusement Features
Have Been Secured.
TRI-STATE FAIR HAS BEEN THE
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GREATEST tlVE STOCK 8HOW IN THE SOUTH WILL BE HELD AT TRI-STATE FAIR THIS YEAR.
The greatest Lire Stock Show In tbe South will be held at the Tri-State Fair this year. The above pictures
show th ) famous live stock parade which held the Interest of thousands last year. Over two miles of cattle were
shown a the splendid track. The fair will open September 26 for ten days and the Live Stock Show will continue
, through tut that period.
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MODEL FARMS AT FAIR
AGRICULTURAL EXHIBIT WILL BE
REPLETE WITH INSTRUC
I TlVE FEATURES.
Point Comfort XIV In Taking First
Honors Showed to International
Stockmen Southern Possi
bilities One Incident.
WERE YOU IN THIS CROWD? THE GRAND STAND AND BLEACHERS
AT THE TRI-STATE FAIR LAST YEAR.
The above pictures show sections of the grand stand and bleachers at the
I Tri-State Fair on auto race day last year. It was one of the greatest crowds
jerer witnessing an auto race in the South. The auto races will be repeated
Ithis year. The fair opens September 26 and runs until October 5.
THOUSANDS WILL GO
i TO TRI-STATE FAIR
ALL SOUTH IS INTERESTED
THE BIG AGRICULTURAL
EXPOSITION.
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, Every Town In Three States Will Send
Delegations to Memphis During
Ten Days of September 26
, . to October 5.
. "All aboard for the Tri-State Fair!"
People In this section are all agog
with interest in the big agricultural
jud development exposition at Mem
phis, Vhich opens September 26 and
will ran until October 6.
So important has the fair become to
( ttila territory that plans are already
lander way for a big attendance from
Oris cbunty. The fair this year will
Jbe unnsally Interesting. Owing to the
wkr and other conditions, farming and
iHsinees methods have in the past
.r undergone a tremendous change,
id the fair will act as a gigantio
ilrror in reflecting the progress which
been made.
One of the biggest attractions at
y fair is the Stock Show. At Mem-
,iis this is especially the case. The
emphis Stock Show has always been
ie of the "biggest in the South, and
year It promises to eclipse all pre-
lus records.
my Practically every big herd in the
TJbuntry will send its chamDions to
wsremphis to, compete for the premi-
'wng to the splendid co-operation
given the fair association by the reg
istry associations, Secretary Frank
Fuller has announced that over ?16,
000 will be offered this year in live
Visitors to the Tri-State Fair at
Memphis during the ten days begin
ning September 26, will see oe of the
most complete exhibitions of minia
ture farms ever attempted in the
South.
These farms will be arranged under
the supervision of experts, whose pui
pose it is to show just how farming of
different kinds can be conducted suc
cessfully. One of the farms will be a model
poultry farm, showing how best to
handle poultry on a ten-acre tract.
Another will be a hog farm, show
ing how the greatest number of hogs
can be handled on a given area of
ground. This farm will show a series
of crops to be planted so as to pro
duce the greatest amount of feed
throughout the year. It will also !
show model hog houses and tell how j
to handle swine to the best advantage. I
A model grain and stock farm will
also be shown, giving a splendid plan
for a four-year rotation. This plan
secures the maximum result from the
land and at the same time adds to its
fertility.
The fifth farm will show the proper
stock premiums alone.
Agriculture will also be a keynote method of growing and harvesting
feature. The county exhibits have al- rice.
A few years ago there came to the
Tri-State Fair as an entry in the live '
stock show a Mississippi Hereford
bull. This bull wag quite tbe pride of
at least one Mississippi farm. He had
a noble bearing, hlg, marks were good,
he was of right weight and magnifi
cent vitality.
There were other bulls at this fair
a hundred or more of them. They
came from all over the continent.
There were several of them who -were
the pride of their Canadian owners,
others had ranged the wide sweeps of
the West, a few more bad been bred
la the valleys of New England. They
all wore ribbons of some recent tri
umph.
The practically unknown Mississippi
entry came Into the ring the next day
as a mystery. He did not remain so
very long, however. He was walked
around a few times. The owners of
other champions gazed at him critical
ly. The Judge confirmed their fears
jby tleing the blue ribbon on his horns.
He was Point Comfort XIV, pride ol
Lavernet Farm, of Jackson. And a
few weeks later when he went to Kan
sas City and Chicago, and other judges
added to his honors and he returned
to Mississippi, the gTJUid champion
of all the Herefords.
! This is only one instance of the tre
mendous power of the Tri-State Fair
just a sample demonstration of the
great good that it has done the Mem
phis territory in encouraging breeders
to raise their stock for the best that is
la them.
I This year a new International grand
champion will be crowned, but it is
safe to say that at least one of his
closest competitors if not the cham
pion himself will be one of the en
trants at the Tri-State.
Over $10,000 will be awarded in
i prizes for attle alone at the Tri-State
I Fair Stock Show. Nearly $3,000 will
' be awarded for swine. All of the other
departments of the fair are offering
attractive cash premiums.
Special rates to Memphis have been
secured on the railroads for the ten
days of the fair.
ways brought forth the hottest kind of
a race, and this year, owing to the
wider variety being grown, this com
petition will be even more keen.
The fair association officials are
firm believers in the axiom, "Some
thing doing every minute!" and they
have seen to ft that every minute of
the ten days is crowded full of intei
est.
The railroads are offering special
rates to Memphis during the week and
are anticipating record business.
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HORSE SHOW FOUR NIGHTS
Each of the farms will be under
fence, and all necessary buildings and
equipment for operation will be in
cluded in the exhibits. .There will also
be up-to-the-minute charts and printed
slips, the latter may be taken home
for future reference. Experts will be
in "charge of the exhibits and will ex
plain all details. The model farms
will be the central feature of the Ag
ricultural building.
FAIR HAS WORKED WONDERS
RACING AT TRI-STATE FAIR
, The greatest fair in the history of
the South is the promise of the Tri
State Fair Association this year.
The fair, which has made Memphis
as well known In the fair realm as
the International Stock Show has
made Chicago in the stock show
world, will open this year on Septem
ber 26 and will close October 5, at
midnight.
Nothing has been left undone this
year. Nothing has been left to chance.
Tot a year the directors of the fair or
ganliatlon have planned for the 1915
triumph, and they say that it will be a
triumph Indeed.
Here will be shown, as cannot be
shown in any other spot in the coun
try, the great changes through which
the South has passed in the last year.
Diversification, the improvement in
stock breeding, the coming of poultry
into its own as a money producer, the
crowning of Corn as Crown Prince to
King Cotton, will all be reflected dur
ing the ten days of the big exposition.
A wealth of premiums have been of
fered. They cover every imaginable
line. The woman with a recipe for
good apple pie can go to Memphis and
get the pie prize while her husband is
oown at tne stocK ring watching a
bine ribbon being pinned on the little
Jersey that he bought at the fair only
two years before.
) Over $16,000.00 will be offered in
stock prizes alone. And then in addi
tion to this $1,500.00 will be offered
for poultry premiums, and large sums
for agricultural exhibits and woman's
work.-
The Poultry Show will be the big
gest in the history of the fair; the
farm exhibits promise to be better
than ever before; the industrial dis
plays will be a splendid tribute to
the progress made by the South in
this line.
It is a great fair this Memphis fair.
It has been a great fair for several!
years and just as an indication of fcow
splendidly it has grown let it be
known that the live stock department
alone is now seven times as big as ttl
was in 1910.
( Realizing that the visitors to the
fair will relish modern amusement an4
ine nest or it, tne amusement commit
tes has provided not only splendid
Harness races this year, but has also
made arrangements with several o
the most famous automobile speed
merchants in the country to battle for
trophies on the fast mile track.
One of the best handicaps of the
country has been booked for the fair.
and there will be an elaborate Horse
Show during the first four nights.
. Every department of the fair this
year will be complete. It will be with
out a doubt the greatest fair that any
Southern' city ever attempted, and it
is expected to draw an attendance that
will far pass previous years.
The railroads have Joined with the
three states and city of Memphis in
making the fair a success and have
offered attractive rates. Local agents
at each station have full information
and will gladly furnish It for the asto
ing.
It is understood that a great many
people in this section especially the
most enterprising of the local farm
ers and business men, have expressed!
meir imenuon ot going to Memphis
for the fair.
WOMAN IS QUEEN
TRI-8TATE FAIR OFFICIALS PAY
TRIBUTE TO GENIUS OF
GENTLE SEX.
ENTIRE BUILDING IS TURNED
OVER TO THEM AT
MEMPHIS.
CRACK HORSES OFt 80UTH WILL
BE PITTED IN SPEED
TRIALS.
MEMPHIS IS GREATLY PLEASED.
Trl-State Fair Will Give Premiums to
Fancy Steppers.
During the first four nights of the
Tri-State Fair, which opens at Mem
phis September 26, a Horse Show, at
which attractive premiums will be
awarded fancy steppers, promises to
be one of the very interesting fea
tures.
Pretty -horseflesh never falls to
arouse admiration, and when to this
is added the further beauty of a grace
ful rider or a pretty driver, the combU
nation is irresistible.
The fair has done much to encour
age the breeding of better horses, and
the fruits of some of its work will be
shown this year.
The Tri-State Fair at Memphis is a
monument to co-operation. It shows
beyond all doubt what concerted ef
fort can do.
The fair this year will be held Sep
tember 26 to October 6, and during
the ten days thousands of farmers,
business men and women from the
surrounding territory will see the
fruits of the last few years' wonderful
development concentrated in the ex
tensive fair grounds.
Diversification even beyond the
fondest hopes of the men who started
the fair movement only a few years
ago will be shown this year. Corn,
wheat, hays, oats, vegetables, live
stock, swine, poultry and a score and
one other money-makers for the farm
will all come in for their share of ap
proval. Crop rotation has proven its worth,
and to the Trl-State Fair goes the
lion's share of the credit for the move
ment in the Memphis territory. In
this section there are ho less than a
dozen farmers who decided to adopt
more modern methods after a visit to
the Memphis fair. And this year they
will have opportunity for even more
remarkable instruction.
Harness racing, automobile racing,
a splendid midway, and a half hun
dred other amusement features will be
offered by the fair association this
year. Ail of the railroads are giving
rates and thousands are expected from
this section of the state alone.
Announcement has been mads by
the Tri-State Fair Assocation that dur
tag the fair, which opens this year on
September 26, there will be six days
of harness racing.
The Trl-State Fair Grounds are built
around the historic old Montgomery
track, known as a record-breaking
oval on which such celebrities as Dan
A pretty compliment was paid the
women of the South by the Tri-State
Fair Association when announcement
was made several years ago that an
entire building at the Memphis Fair
would be turned over to them for their
exhibits.
This building has since that time
developed into one of the prettiest
and most interesting spots on the
grounds, and is again in charge of the
women for the fair which opens Sep
tember 26th.
It is safe to assert that it has more
men visitors than any other one build
ing at the fair, and this year the
ladles in charge of the Women's De
partment are determined to make it
even more attractive than before.
Mise Ada Harris, who has been chief
assistant and in the secretary's office
for a number of years, directress of
the department, announces that there
will be three divisions in which the
ladies of the three states may com.
pete. They will be culinary, decora
tive art and textile.
Each one of these divisions has a
score or more of sections. For in
stance, in the culinary division there
is a section of catsups, pickles, canned
vegetables, fruits, marmalades and a
dozen other sections that make one's
mouth water.
Seven different kinds of pies are ell,
gible for competition, but they will all
come under the general heading of.
"pies like mother used to make." At
least that is provided they do not lock
them in a steel cage while the judges
are examining their various good
points.
All of which causes every able-
bodied man at the fair to wish he
were a judge.
The South is coming into its own in
tne livestock world. This is demon
strated by the vast number of South
ern herds that will be on exhibition
Patch, and others of hardly lesser and in the competition at the Tri-State
fame, made fame for themselves. I Fair at Memphis this year.
i Entries for open purposes will close ' Secretary Frank Fuller of the Fair
Monday, September 20, and indica
tions are that some of the fastest
horses in the country will receive the
Association has Just returned from
Birmingham and reports the South
am cattlemen are enthused over the
jplaudits of the thousands in the big Fair and are expecting to capture big
srana siana. xnere is nothing in the nonors.
world that will make a man come to Robson plantation at Robson, La.,
his feet quicker than a neck-and-neck to sending 12 head of Angus cattle and
finish with good horses on a good W keau of Berkshire swine.
track, and as Memphis will have both Red Pebble Farm, Ashburn, Ga., will
of them during fair week, the craving show 16 head of Hereford cattle and
of even the most rabid race horse fan M head of Duroc Jersey swine.
should be satisfied. i W. T. Huffman of Columbia. S. C
An elaborate Horse Show for the will bo at the fair with an exhibit
first four nights of the fair will also 20 head of Tamworth swine and an
be a pleasing feature to lovers of good exhibit of Barred Plymouth Rock poul-
horseflesh. try.
There will be special railroad rates Le Varnet farms of Jackson, Miss.,
on all lines. The fair will run for ten nd Lespedeza Farms at Hickory Val-
days, and the races will be only one ky. Tenn., winner of many Tri-State
of the many big features.
AUTO DEMONS AT THE FAIR
WONDERFUL CLOCK COMING.
HERE SHE IS QUEEN OF HER CLASS A JERSEY WINNER
lie . OF BIG HONORS.
wek Better stock in beef and dairy cattle is the cry and the need of the Sontk.
IEhe stock on most of the Southern farms aDDroached the class shown abov.
It sy country would be wealthier than any empire in the world. The Jersey
""Kown here won first honors at the Tri-State Fair at Memphis last year. Ths
Mr opens this year September 26th and will last ten days, and Indications ars
at the number of head of stock on the grounds will be almost half again u
AdSauy as last year. 1
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Gebhard's famous clock wilt be one of
the attractions at the Tri-State Fair at
Memphis this year. Announcement was
recently made that the Memphis offi
cials had secured this clock from C.
Gebhard & Sons, its makers, for the
week of September 26 until October 6,
Inclusive. The clock was made in
Mannheim, Germany. It was under
construction 31 years; it has 15,000
distinct parts, which operate with 28
different astronomical motions. These
motions vary from one second to a
revolution of 29 years and six months.
It is all operated by one pendulum.
The big clock is only one of the
hundred or more amusement features
at the fair.
r rata nest Known auto racers
in the country are going to stake life
and limb in mad dashes around the
mile track at the Tri-State Fair tnis
year, in their efforts to make new
speed records and Incidentally win the
trophies offered by the Tri-State Fair
Association.
The fair will open September 26th
for ten days, and the last two Octo
ber 4th and 6th will have auto racing
as their ohief amusement features.
Among the speed demons who have
already entered the races at the fair
ars Louis Dlsbrow, of international
fame; Joe Bianohi, the great Italian
driver; Eddie Hearne, who has thrilled
the thousands at the speedway meets,
and Johnny Raimey, of Cincinnati,
who has developed into one of the fast
est drivers in the business, and who
says that he is determined to make a
new record for himself at Memphis.
Ths track is In fine shape and will
bo given a few finishing touches. All
danger of accidents will be placed at
a minimum by police protection and
safety methods.
Special rates are being offered by
the railroads and a number of people
from this section have signified their
intention of going to Memphis to ses
the fair and the races.
Fair prizes in the past, will both be on
hand this year with unusually fine en
tries. Shreve Island Farm at Shreveport,
La., will enter Polled Durham cattle
of prize-winning calibre.
Reservations for space have also
been received from:
E. L. Smith, Covington, Tenn.
E. L. Smith, Covington, Tenn., will
show Herford cattle and Duroc swia
Lakeview Farms, of Chattanooga.
Tenn., will show 20 head of Jersey
cattle.
Rogers Brothers, Harrodsburg, Ky
are coming to the fair with Berkshire
swine.
Another Kentucky entrant is Boy4
Browder of Fulton, who will enter O.I
I. C. swine.
Sheep from the Blue Grass State
will be shown by Turner Collins of
Leesburg, whose flock of Cheviot are
winning fame for him.
Three other Tennessee exhibitors wil
be A. Ramey Bros., of Hickory Pointy
with Duroc Jerseys, H. C. Davidson,
with Cheviot sheep, Angora goats and,
Berkshire hogs, and Island Home
Farm, Knoxrllle, with Jerseys.
The inquiry for premium lists has!
been greater than ever before. Entries
do not close until September 20, ant
the advance entries promise a showji
that will far surpass even the famous
shows of the past two years. 1
The livestock industry in the Soutfil
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nas enjoyea remarxaDie growth in Eh
past few years. The work done b;
the Tri-State Fair, ' the governmei
and state agents and other instit
tions interested in the promulgatii
of better breeding methods has reaped!
magnificent reward in the way of big
ger and better herds and heavier net
profits.
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