American Agriculturist, September 20, 1924 
What We Saw at the Fair 
Horseshoe Pitching 1 Contest a Success 
W E HAVE been going to the Fair at 
Syracuse for quite a number of 
years, and sometimes we are inclined to 
agree with the man who said the other 
day in reference to the Fair, “if you have 
seen one of them, you’ve seen them all.” 
But this depends upon whether you 
go to make a real study of the exhibits 
or to just walk around in a casual sort of 
way. There is a difference, and from the 
standpoint of the exhibits the State Fair 
this year was the best we have e^er seen. 
This is true whether the exhibits were 
judged on the basis of quality, variety 
of products, or as representative of the 
agriculture of New York State. 
In our opinion, the outstanding show 
from a farm standpoint at the Fair this 
just a “bunch of good cows,” and this 
has little value from either an interest or 
educational standpoint. 
Not the least of the exhibits were the 
junior projects, put on by the boys and 
girls of the State who have excelled in 
home-making projects or in growing some 
very excellent crop or animal. This is 
the kind of work that will not only keep 
the children on the farms, but will give 
them an early interest in the business 
that will insure their economic success, 
and, better still, their happiness as farm 
people of the future. 
One of the most interesting and worth¬ 
while things at the Fair was the model 
rural school building, exhibited by the 
State Education Department, under the 
Individual High Scorers in the Finals 
Roy Clark won the Silver Cup presented by Henry Morgenthau Jr. 
Publisher of American Agriculturist. 
V Won 
Lost 
Pts. 
Ringers 
D. R. 
S. Pitched 
'*■ Pet. 
1. Roy Clark 
4 
1 
97 
28 
5 
170 
.165 
2. Herbert Coy 
3 
2 
87 
23 
3 
154 
.149 
3. J. P. Moran 
3 
2 
83 
26 
3 
120 
.217 
4. Alton Coy Jr. 
3 
2 
80 
19 
1 
192 
.099 
5. John Monks 
1 
4 
59 
5 
0 
190 
.025 
6. Alden Ball 
1 
4 
55 
16 
0 
190 
.084 
year was the county agricultural exhibits 
put on by the farm bureaus. The farm 
bureaus have been going to the State 
Fair for several years with these exhibits, 
but this year they really outdid them¬ 
selves. No one could make even a light 
study of these county booths without 
getting a good idea very quickly of the 
agriculture of that particular county. 
We think a lot of creditjis due to the farm- 
bureau managers, and a lot also to E. C. 
Weather by, whose long experience en¬ 
abled him to superintend the staging 
of these county exhibits so that every 
worth-while point was brought out. 
In the same building with the farm- 
bureau exhibits was the show of farm 
products of New York State. No farmer 
could walk through and note the great 
variety and high quality products of 
New York without being proud that he 
was a farmer and had a part in food- 
production. While we were looking 
over this display a little country boy and 
girl, not more than ten or twelve years 
old, came in lugging a pumpkin nearly as 
large as they were. “Say, mister,” said 
the boy, “where can I put my punkin?” 
We brought it to the attention of 
direction of Mr. Ray Snyder. This one- 
room school was filled w T ith interested 
visitors from the beginning to the end of 
the Fair. The building contained ad¬ 
justable seats, an ideal heating plant, 
exactly the right amount of light, ideally 
colored walls, and was altogether a very 
attractive environment as an ideal place 
in which the youngster could spend the 
most of his waking hours. Perhaps the 
best part of this rural school-building 
demonstration was that it showed how 
a district at very small expense could 
redecorate the inside of a school building, 
changing it from a dull, dreary place to a 
very attractive one. 
We think we may say without undue 
enthusiasm that about the biggest thing 
at the Fair this year was the American 
Agriculturist Farm Bureau Horse¬ 
shoe Pitching Contest. There were over 
fifty entries coming from many different 
counties from all over the State, and each 
contestant had been a winner in a local 
county contest. In spite of the fact 
that most of the pitching had to be done 
outdoors, and that it rained so that the 
courts were in an almost impossible 
condition from the mud, the enthusiasm 
THE WINNING COUNTY TEAMS 
First prize, $100; Second prize, $50; Third prize, 
Awarded by American Agriculturist 
$25 
Games 
Won 
Games 
Lost 
Double No. of Shoes 
Ringers Ringers Pitch ed 
Percentage 
STEUBEN COUNTY—1st 
Alden Ball 
Roy Clark 
Both of Hammondsport 
4 
2 
33 
5 
184 
.179 
CHEMUNG COUNTY—2nd 
John Monks— Pine City 
J. P. Moran— Elmira 
3 
3 
30 
2 
244 
.123 
CHENANGO COUNTY—3rd 
Herbert Coy 
Alton Coy 
Both of Norwich 
2 
4 
27 
1 
228 
.118 
Superintendent Riley, and although it 
was past time for the closing of entries, 
Mr. Riley entered the pumpkin. It was 
worth at least a small prize. 
In our opinion, that is what the State 
Fair is for, to encourage folks, particu¬ 
larly the young folks, to grow farm 
products with enough pride to want to 
show their work at the agricultural fairs. 
There was the usual fine array of cattle 
and horses of every breed. A list of 
leading prize-winners will be announced 
next week. Sufficient to repeat here a 
mild criticism we have made before. It 
is our thought that a large part of the 
value of the animal exhibits is lost because 
the individual animals are not described, 
and in the general show r one means little 
more to the average public than another. 
As shown pn the present plan, they are 
of the pitchers could not be dampened. 
Finally, it got so bad, that upon insisting 
upon it, we were allowed space inside of 
the coliseum where the finals were pitched. 
Names of the winners together with their 
scores are shown in the table on this 
page. We expect to comment more 
upon this horseshoe-pitching tournament 
in a later issue, but we want to take this 
opportunity to thank all of those who 
took part and say to them that this was 
our first time, that we hope they will 
come again next year when there wall be 
better weather and when we will know 
more about how to run such a big enter¬ 
prise. Especial credit is due to G. E. 
Snyder, of Rochester, who acted as general 
manager and referee, and to D. D. 
Cottrell, of North Cohocton, who did 
such efficient work in keeping the records. 
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