Outing . THE COUNTRY FAIR BY DAVID LANSING PHOTOGRAPHS BY A. B. PHELAN AND A. P. DAVIS. ]T is all very well, I sup-pose, to know that theAmerican farmer is get-ting to be a most scien-tific and plutocraticperson. But along withhis new-fangled notionsof tickling the soil with all kinds of ma-chinery he is fast losing his taste forold-fashioned diversions. What with hisautomobile, his talking-machine, his tele-phone and his gas-engines, he is too sophis-ticated to find delight in the two-fortyhoss-trots and the truly rural exhibitswhich used to make the county fair thered-letter event of the yea
Outing . THE COUNTRY FAIR BY DAVID LANSING PHOTOGRAPHS BY A. B. PHELAN AND A. P. DAVIS. ]T is all very well, I sup-pose, to know that theAmerican farmer is get-ting to be a most scien-tific and plutocraticperson. But along withhis new-fangled notionsof tickling the soil with all kinds of ma-chinery he is fast losing his taste forold-fashioned diversions. What with hisautomobile, his talking-machine, his tele-phone and his gas-engines, he is too sophis-ticated to find delight in the two-fortyhoss-trots and the truly rural exhibitswhich used to make the county fair thered-letter event of the year. Your twen-tieth century man with the hoe wants afull-fledged Midway, Dan Patch going anexhibition mile inside of two minutes, aband concert in every building, and somevaudeville, to make an Agricultural Ex-position worth the price of admission. The prize mammoth pumpkin, theQuilt containing One Thousand EightHundred and Three Pieces made by an OldLady in her Seventy-ninth Year withoutthe Aid of Spectacles, the firemens contest and the prehistoric side show nolonger loom grandly a
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