BOISE WILL ASK FOR STATE FAIR
State Grange and State Dairymen’s Association Indorse Proposal.
BOISE, Idaho, Oct. 14—(Special.)
A concerted and definite movement has been inaugurated to give Idaho a state fair to be located at the capital city, Boise, recognized center of the state. It will come to a climax during the next session of the legislature when Ada county, of which Boise is the county seat, hopes to have a delegation in the legislature that will be pledged to that one issue.
The state grange and the state dairymen’s association have both indorsed the movement. Representative farmers, dairymen, stockmen and producers believe that the time has arrived when a state fair is essential as a clearing house for agriculture and stock of various classes and kinds. Every effort will be made to keep the state fair issue out of the politics.
Its greatest danger, however, is sectionalism, as there are now a number of district fairs held in different parts of the state and the county is to pull back on a proposal for a state fair in the belief that such a central institution would tend minimize and injure the district fair.
District Fair Successful.
Under a new management the western Idaho state fair was held in Boise this fall. In face of decidedly inclement weather it was a success. Day and night programs were featured for four days. The entertainment was of a particularly high class type. It probably will be enlarged upon for the 1930 fair. The stock exhibits were large and representative of the state. Farm produce and produce of the orchards made an excellent showing.
Southern and western Idaho are rapidly becoming dairy sections and are being heavily drawn upon by other states, particularly those of the interior and the Pacific coast, for desirable dairy stock. Where Idaho used to import dairy stock it is now exporting this stock. Its dairy produce has grown by leaps and bounds until it is climbing to a position among states as one of the leaders in dairying. A state fair, it is claimed, would be of material benefit to this industry as it would afford a show place for dairy stock annually bringing into Idaho the leading dairymen of the intermountain and western coast states.