The billboard (June 1896)

BILLBOARD ADVERTISING. June, 1896. There are plenty of papers in the country which treat of fair matters from the stand- Mint of the breeder of live stock or from le standpoint of the exhibitor, but Bill- "J-""" ««uui» curaccim wiin tne fair, new methods, advertising and kind- red topics that engross his attention and which this paper proposes to famish Fair management is an undeveloped art, a science bat little understood, prindp-"- -™ secretaries hold theif t -'' "jdiiziu aim lULCUlgeUC laOOT, WlUI perhaps than in any other line of work. A fair paper is needed, it has been the want of secretaries for the last decade. Here it la. Secretaries give it your Bop- port. ■ Sub scribe for it and contribute to Tbe premium lists for the Nebraska, Iowa, Minnesota and Ohio State Fairs are already in circulation. Premium lists ought to be gotten out early, as a rule they should be in circulation before plant- ing begins in order to let the farmers be able to plant with reference to making a show at the fair in the falL The best way to breed new ideas in any line of business is to swap lies with those who chance to be in the same line of bnsi- rttram'c^ful^rlswfelnTh ""V people™ adopter! in this country, al_ login- of exhibits properly ™- of the moat potent - . __ connection with the at the same time a very vului " ing medium, far surpassing generally The above map showing the location of Wisconsin Fairs, shows what can be done - "le way ofnresc n tiu B to the public. "VI **JJU coninuuEC co - - .» Help it and it will help you. The premium list of the Toi is received. In size it is a 1 State F. sably so la fact, Take any one breed, Holsteiiis for instance logically the Holatcin breed should form one class and one only, yet here it is made into six classes. An' 'exhibitors herd' • is a porlirm of a class not a class and should be set in the same style of type as for instance '•bull three years old or over" yet in this premimrrjist we nave "exhibitor's herd- called a class and set in the same style of type as tie word "Holston." Type is made for ■ pnrpose. In getting up - premium list the following is a good in mind: for main division: logue of stock exhibits" which will take 88 follows: There is a cattle ''Depart- this matter up in detail and prove very meni," a "Ilolstein" class, and a bull valuable reading to secretaries^ who are csU "Frixe Number." The time must contemplating to be up with the tini- '- flortrt enm* .Un -~~*> — —in trim respect this fall. Nebraska has a novel and effectual of advertising her State Fair in the i™- ance of the State Fair Bnlletin published signifies a treed monthly and sent oot to 35,000 people with live stock, and any other use of the No State Fair can be properly adver- woni ■ clearly out of line with the best tised without the use of lithograph hang- authority. The sooner we get over this '"> or posters, but the publication of a "confusion of tongues" in 0 ' rathly bulletin by any fair essociatian tbe more intelligently we can ys for itself and forms a most valuable O^jrwoTtl- sooner f. vey the same meaning in each of the 1500 or more fairs in the country. The recog- yv. aiied use of the word "Class" among . J breeders and fair managers of reputation <:i[rm£~C n hrrsJ H Ll 1. " large-type, for subdivisions uwc hi type and for subdivisions of the sub di- visions use a still smaller type, which will give the book an air of symmetry throngh- f olio w the pace set by tbe New York and Wisconsin State Hairs in this regard In Ibis she far to he commended and also ^ir^lSf^o wu/orrrTw^the rule^rnade last fall by the Eastern and Western Fair . adopting the wonls, " an d "1W divisions use ^ TC ™? n K m « linm be used in ith posters, as it enables the associa- tion to better place the details of the fair its attractions and management, before the public Just as a S of the Every Stole in the union ought to have in onr I a Fair Managers Association. If there is How do not one in yonr state begin to organize Problem? one. Don't give it any hrgh flown name Wbo ouj simply call it the mintnsFairManagers . Oughtti Association for instance. Everything "■Hi whyr else in the world seems to be organized: How do yon advertise your county fair? It is tune for the fair managers of the How do you advertise your state fair? country to organize. Those contemplat- Seaa HQ 9wers for publication to the mau- ing starting organizations might do %nU fST °. f "»» department Correspondence to correspond with Billboard Adveh- }* invited. For publication in July num- Ttsrac and get constitutions of similar , "ermail answers before June 19th; y and^ 6 ™ f™ 111 *jj open 10 inquiries Now that the fair managers of the •WW**** that'worries'y^u dro'r>Viine y am to have an organ of their own. to BittBOAKD AdveRtisihG. We will the first things to <J D is to have one P" b,1Bn th 5 "q»«T an " invite answers le premium lists ' Iom practical fair managers to it. It will be entirely feasible and practical. It wu originated and is controlled by P.T.Wall, of Gallipolis, O., who will fornix terms and details to interested parties on appli- M. B. Hall, sec'y of the Fayette Co. Or Company, (Washington C H., O.) nds us the speed program of tbe fall eeting, August ji-14 inclusive. It is iy interesting. : free at the West Virginia State Fair, at Wheeling, Sept. Applications should be adorer— J Chas. Porter, secretary of the Lake Prarte District Fair, at PeUa, Iowa, is meeting with much success in securing premiums, and prospects are very good! .J. M. Logan, secretary of tbe Shelby- ville (Ky.) Fair, writes that they will have the best fair in the state this year. No that at the meeting of the Tire Carthae* Fair fCmel™.H m -,, week of October n ^FairM^agersAsso. bxS,iSr^oTo/SSo^. * ItSh^u^^^^' ^ F ' W