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BETTER FRUIT 



September, 1920 



Fairs— Their Value to the Community 



COMMUNITY, county, state and in- 

 terstate fairs are a big asset to 

 both the business man and producer. 



It follows that promoting some form 

 of community fair, such as an ex- 

 hibit of local products, is profitable 

 from many points of view. It stim- 

 ulates better production of stock, farm 

 produce and garden truck. It engen- 

 ders the community pride, and adver- 

 tises in an attractive fashion good 

 products and those who produced 

 them. 



Advertisers have discovered that 

 good characteristics of their products 

 which are so familiar to them as to 

 seem commonplace are often not so 

 well known to the great buying pub- 

 lic. Goods must be talked about if 

 business is to be secured. The same 

 holds true with communities. The 

 excellence of neighborhood products 

 and the special lines in which vari- 

 ous individuals excel may seem like a 

 very old story to those immediately 

 concerned, but there are plenty of 

 folks near by who have not heard 

 this story, or, by chance they have 

 heard it, it is very much worth while 

 from a business standpoint to repeat 

 it — and more than once. 



If the community decides to hold a 

 fair, an organization should be 

 formed, officers elected, and commit- 

 tees appointed. The latter should in- 

 clude committees on amusement and 



entertainments, arrangements, decora- 

 tions and publicity. These are gen- 

 eral committees. In addition, there 

 should be exhibit department commit- 

 tees for such exhibits as live stock, 

 farm products, orchard and garden 

 products, women's work and fine arts, 

 school and club exhibits and histori- 

 cal relics. 



Too much emphasis cannot be 

 placed on properly advertising the 

 fair through articles in the local pa- 

 pers, printed handbills, hand-made 

 posters, notices read, preferably sev- 

 eral times, in the schools and 

 churches, and in various other ways. 

 The publicity committee should give 

 special attention to advertising in 

 neighboring communities, extending 

 an invitation in such cordial terms 

 that many who do not ordinarily visit 

 the community holding the exhibit 

 will be induced to do so. 



The exhibit should represent as 

 nearly as possible the normal produc- 

 tion of the community, for one of the 

 purposes of such a fair is to stimu- 

 late interest in increasing the quan- 

 tity and improving the quality of the 

 average produce, as well as giving 

 special recognition to the leaders in 

 different lines. Freak exhibits are to 

 be avoided. The committee should 

 make it a point to solicit exhibits 

 from all persons eligible, not failing 

 to emphasize the business benefits 

 which may result. 



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