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Show FAIR PLANS BIG . FARM PROGRAM j ! Barn Dance, Rural Events Featured at Chicago Aug. 11 to 18. Chicago. Four million persons have entered the gates of the new World's Fair since It opened here May 20. Most of the throngs that have thrilled to the new spectacle, the new "foreign villages," which offer In themselves a "tour of the world," the new shows and the new free entertainment projects, proj-ects, are city dwellers. Chlcagoans, visitors vis-itors from other cities all over the United States and visitors from foreign for-eign countries have poured In. In large numbers. But the real farmer-visitors' Invasion Inva-sion of A Century of Progress has nr yet begun. It will reach Its peak when the Fair celebrates Farm Week, from August 11 to August IS. Inclusive Last year Farm Week accounted for the largest single week's attendance attend-ance of the entire Fair. Plans to make the celebration Interesting and important im-portant to farmers are even more elaborate now than last year, according accord-ing to the events division of the exposition. ex-position. WLS Barn Dance at Fair. Saturday, Vugust U, will lead oft the program with a massive farm parade. Including bands, farm Implements, Imple-ments, machinery and equipment and farm animals. Depicting the modernization modern-ization of agriculture, it will he one of the longest and most comprehensive pageants of the entire exposition. Sunday, August 12, will see special music and farm programs Interlinked with the observance of Chicago Incorporation Incor-poration day, with Chicago acting as host to the out-of-town multitudes. Rexford Tugwell, assistant secretary of agriculture, has been Invited to he the principal speaker of the Farm Organization Or-ganization day program Monday. Tuesday Tues-day will be farm radio day, with the entire WLS "Barn Dance" presenting a program in the Court of States; 40,-000 40,-000 persons saw this event In 1933. Aerial Sham Battle Planned. The farmer's wife will have her day Wednesday, August 15, which has been named Farm Women's day, with special programs arranged to pay tribute trib-ute to the women who battled to carve a nation out of the wilderness. Farm Youth day, Thursday, will be full of recognition of the future farmers of the land, with emphasis on 4-H club work. Programs of Interest to rural newspapers news-papers and magazines will feature Farm Press day, Friday. Saturday, August 18, will be farm music day, with its high spot the gigantic Chlca-goiand Chlca-goiand Music festival In Soldier Field, adjoining the Fair grounds. This annual an-nual event has attracted more than a half million persons in the four years of its existence. This day will also see many special contests, such as milkmaid, milk-maid, husband-calling and hog-ealllng contests. Saturday Is also Illinois day. There will be a review of 10,000 troops and demonstrations by anti-aircraft artillery artil-lery units, shooting with tracer bullets bul-lets at balloon targets towed by airplanes. air-planes. Farm Exhibits Are Many. During Farm Week parties of fanners fann-ers will be taken on free guided tours of the Fair grounds. Farm visitors, with only a limited time to spend, will In this way be able to see everything of vital Interest to them. Henry Ford's Industrialized barn, where he shows how the farmer may, at low cost, raise soy beans, obtain the residue and process It himself, making Industrial products for which he can obtain a profitable revenue, is one of the new exhibits. Another is the International Harvester company's radio-controlled tractor, which demonstrates demon-strates how farming may be done from an easy chair on the veranda. Model farm homes will attract many rural sightseers, as will the exhibits of the great packing plants and the automobile auto-mobile manufacturers. The Brook Hill Dairy farm, with Its model farm of 1950, shows the last word In modern milk production, from cow to bottle. The International Bigg Laying contest is a huge laboratory where the farmer may study the latest lat-est egg-production methods first-hand. Scores of commercial exhibitors will have displays of prime Interest to Farm-Week visitors. Special Rates Lower Cost. Special railroad and bus rates will make It easier for the farmer to get to the Fair this summer. Automobile agencies and oil stations will give him assistance In highway travel. At the Fair, lie will Qnd costs surprisingly low. Restaurants are cheaper, transportation trans-portation Is cheaper, there is plentiful free entertainment and eighty per cent of all the comfort stations are frees Probably one of the leading nttrm-tions nttrm-tions for rural visitors will be the for. elgu villages, so faithful In reproductions reproduc-tions of life and scenes In fifteen countries coun-tries that they offer the equivalent of a tour of the world, right on the Fair grounds. |