1004 IOWA DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 



By going a little ahead of time you will always secure good meals. 

 Don't eat between times. Rest whenever you feel the need. There are 

 settees in the shade all over the grounds. Of course there are people 

 who attend the state fair and other such affairs and yet never see 

 anything worth while. So there are people who are out on a bright 

 spring day who never see the sunshine or hear a bird sing. 



There is not too much pleasure in this world, so why not make the 

 most of it? "All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy", and even 

 v^orse, all work leaves Jack in such a condition that a stroll in green 

 pastures beside still waters will not restore him. Every civilized man 

 feels the need for a time of leisure and social intercourse. These neces- 

 sities may, for a time, be held in check; but sooner or later, in a right 

 way or a wrong way, they will assert themselves. Why not face the 

 matter squarely, foreseeing the end and provide a balance? In other 

 words, when we need a vacation is it not the wisest plan to take it? 



SPECIAL ATTRACTIONS AT FAIRS. 



BREEDERS GAZETTE. 



While it is admitted that the chief end of the fair, large or small, 

 is educational, the financial end must by no means be overlooked. In 

 other words a fair must pay or it must be discontinued, save in the 

 instance of some exhibitions for which the tax-payers are responsible. 

 The managers must therefore look out for the main chance and see 

 to it that the balance is on the right side of the ledger. As a rule the 

 fair managers have but one source of revenue to which they may look 

 for success and that is the gate. If the people do not attend the receipts 

 will not be large enough to cover expenses. To be sure there are fees 

 of one sort and another, and the price of the various concessions, but 

 in the end the money received from such sources goes but a short dis- 

 tance toward paying the bills, no matter how welcome it may be in a 

 subsidiary sort of way. 



The point then is to get the people to deposit their quarters or 

 halves in the strong boxes at the gates. They must be attracted some- 

 how or other. Various schemes have been tried in the hope of dis- 

 covering the true magnec, managers having run the gamut from dis- 

 gustingly obscene shows to the very best racing attractions, and in 

 every instance it has been proved that the higher class the entertain- 

 ment offered the greater the drawing power of the special attraction. 

 Who does not remember the enormous crowds which gathered at the 

 tracks in the Middle West when Joe Patchen and Star Pointer went 

 their memorable series of races? At Springfield. 111., nearly GO. 000 peo- 

 ple congregated to see the race and were rewarded by witnessing Star 

 Pointer make a race record of 2:00i/^, which has never to this day been 

 surpassed. 



