Watertown Republican

Exhibiting Crops.

Any farmer who will religiously follow his county fairs from year to year will observe the opportunities there to make a reputation if he can grow one particular crop better than another. As every one knows, one soil worker is an expert potato grower, another raises prize swine, another understands corn better than other crops, and so on.

Let each one take a specimen of that which he can grow best to the county fair and exhibit, advises the Indianapolis News. Possibly he may not win a prize, but he will have a chance to see what others are doing and thus ascertain his own shortcomings. Again, his exhibit may attract the attention of some one who wants just the product he produces and a profitable business is worked up.

The educational advantages of the county fair ought not to be overlooked and the family should be taken to every one that can be reached at a moderate cost. Get out into the world and see what other farmers are doing; one will find them willing to talk and one may get enough good ideas at a single fair to pay for the expense of attendance twenty times over. Bear this item in mind as the fairs begin now and in September.