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About The Alliance herald. (Alliance, Box Butte County, Neb.) 1902-1922 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 28, 1919)
0 J Stockmen's J I Section The Allhanc J . Sixteen J Pages J rald YOLUME XXVI. Nebraska State Fai MACHINERY GROUNDS AT THE ; 1918 NEBRASKA STATE ,4 if. i FAIR ENTERTAINMENT AND PRACTICAL EDUCATION IN COMBINATION Spend & Week at the State Fair and You Will Know More About Nebraska Than Before A Few Days Will Help. By iohn W. Thomas Maybe not quite the "biggest show en earth" but it is surely one of the biggest and the greatest in this great state, the annual Nebraska State Fair. The "hoss race and the punkin how" are no longer the principal features. They still retain a place on the program, but the exhibition has grown and grown until some things that were formerly leading features are now only a small part of the great event. Beside furnishing a week's enter tainment every year for the thou sands of people who attend the Ne braska State Fair has grown into an Immense educational institution. That H shall be is the design of the management the State Board of Agriculture, ably assisted by the State College of Agriculture and var : DOMESTIC ' PRODUCTS SECTION ' OF NEBRASKA STATE J. FAIR T , 1918 . ALLIANCE, - Z V ious live stock and other organiza tions of Nebraska. Some of the Oustanding Features t It is not possible in this short story to describe fully or adequately all of the splendid features of the Ne braska State Fair, but I wish to call attention briefly to a few. Besides the races, music and other forms of entertainment, the many exhibits representing the products and industries of the state are worth coming many miles to see. They constitute a source of practical edu cation as well as pleasure in viewing them. "Know Nebraska" is a slogan that comes in good here. The county collective exhibits are given much attention, but none too much. Two weeks ago The Herald published a cut of the Sheridan coun ty exhibit made last year one of the be6t in the state of crops raised n:-; ?.yx J2X:L- rr fT" JT l! P V- i j v . .y ' : '.'TTTTr?""'-' - "- "' t ; j j . '.--.- 3-e ' v"?''r" "" ""' 1 IJ''-""' -. -- ,r t. r - - t-i- rn w- --r - - - ', - ,-.. . 3 - . .. . - . .... . . . J "THE MINT MAKES MONEY WITHOUT ADVERTISING; NO ONE ELSE CAN." BOX BUTTE COUNTY, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, AUGUST 28th, V N. ,,"..; .'IT KAYtC without irrigation; but there were many others that were fine. One of the interesting things about the county collective exhibits lsJhat they come from all rrt of the state. The importance of live stock rank close to that of farm products. , Mil lions of dollars' worth of live stock are never represented In the exhibits at the state fair, because they are not in the exhibition class; but the class of stuff exhibited helps to improve and enhance the value of the live stock of the state as a whole, hence the importance of thiB department of the fair." The raising and feeding of beef cattle is the most important branch of the live stock industry in Nebras ka Yr hv vear the beef cattle showat the Nebraska State Fair im I proves and Increases In size. It's , worth while for a ranchman to visit ' the fair to see this part of the exhib , its. Shall the meat production of the world be maintained and Increased? Nebraska's answer is, "Yes", The value of the hogs marketed in Nebraska annually exceeds that of any other animals except cattle, although the value of the horses on hand at any one time is grater than that of the hogs on hand. The im portance of the swine industry is re flected in the new swine barn which Is a part of the Nebraska, State Fair plant. This barn was erected' at a wTVIV!l i XJjI.T'-' ? v"r , r SepU -.. t -:jv... -J-'T . "J. I 6 I n cost of $80,000 and is conceded to be the finest hog barn on any state fair grounds. This new building was re sponsible last year for drawing the largest and best swine, show ever held in America. A few years ago horse breeders were hurriedly retting rid of their stock because the price tendency was downward and the prospects for the future were not then good; but the horse is coming back. The world at large Ib going to need horses. Where they are to come from is somewhat of a problem. The Nebraska State Fair is lending its aid in popularis ing the raising of horses of the bet ter kind, the kind that will be In de mand for years to come. Dairying ranks among the leading industries in Nebraska and is grow ing In popularity. This fact is In dicated in the growth of the dairy cattle exhibits at the Nebraska State Fair. The dairy shows of the past have been excellent. As the rise in the price of land makes intensified production necessary, there can bei no doubt that dairying will continue to increase In this state. Anything that helps to Improve the industry, is a public benefit. ' There are many other things in connection with, the Nebraska State Fair that I would like to describe here, would space permit. Including the immense exhibit of machinery I I "TIC - Printer ' Ink. 1910 UC jfVf' and Implements on the machinery grounds, the poultry and other ex hibits not before mentioned, and matters pertaining to social welfare; but those matters must be left for some future Issue of The Herald. If ever there was a time when citl cens from all parts of Nebraska should attend their state fair, that time is now at hand. I anticipate that the fair of 1919 will be one of , the most Instructive and entertaining ever held. ! HOME COMPANY WILL KEEP MONEY IN STATE liberty Fire Initurance Company One of Mfs Sound Organizations of This Great Commonwealth. , 1 In this isuse we wish to call tho attention of our readers to the Lib- eny rire insurance company, wuicu is organized In the State of Nebras ka to fill a much needed want. After careful investigation, we find that there is a great need for strong Ne braska Fire Insurance Companies, for the reason that there Is annually leaving the state of Nebraska and going to foreign stock companies fire Insurance premiums amounting to $7,498,399.23. ' From this amount there is only a little over $3,000,000 - :' i j .. ..... f ! NUMBER 39 69 19 ONE I OP 1 Tim i "busiest, ; PLACES t ON TUB GROUNDS , comes back Into the state in the shape of fire losses. Of - this vast amount of money being paid for fir Insurance by the citizens of Nebras ka, only $62,629 stays at home, as we have only one legal reserve stock .fire Insurance company in the State of Nebraska. The Liberty Fire Insurance Coin- pany h been organZed to retain a part of tliese premiums in the State of Mohrn.ka md ftr inro.tiMnn find that thi rntnnnnv ! hslnr organized on a safe and sound basis, its officers being men of, honor and Integrity and well qualified to man age the affairs of a large fire insur ance company. The Secretary and Treasurer, Mr. P. F. Zimmer, ha has been twenty-one years engaged as Secretary and Treasurer and gen eral manager fo the Nebraska Na- tlnna! TnaiimnrA Comnanv. which Is on9 ot the mo8t BUCcessful mutual lnUrance companies in the State j0ing business on the legal reserve basis. Mr. Zimmer Is known to b one of the best insurance men In the West, and with him at the head of the Liberty Fire Insurance Company as Its managing underwriter, there ran be no doubt as to the outcome ot the Liberty Fire Insurance Company. On our investigation we found that th Liberty Fire Insurance Com- MMMMMMWiMBSSMSMSSSHSSSSSISSSBSMBMBaiBBf (Continued on Page 8, Section 2.) WOMEN PLAY IMPORTANT PART GOOD THINGS TO EAT