FRANKLIN COUNTY FAIR

OUR 149TH FAIR, JULY 16-20, 2008

Grandpa’s Farm & Pleasant Hill

Grandpa’s Farm and Pleasant Hill are free attractions at the Fair.

Pleasant Hill is open daily and Grandpa’s Farm operates daily, weather permitting

 

DRAFT HORSE PULL  BY IOWA DRAFT HORSE PULLERS, OVERLOAD PULL

SATURDAY, JULY 19, 1 P.M., weigh in 12:30 p.m.

ANTIQUE AND CLASSIC TRACTOR PULL, SUNDAY, 11 A.M. - weigh in 10  a.m.

 

ALL PULLS AT GRANDPA’S FARM—FREE ADMISSION

Franklin County Fair

P.O. Box 442

Hampton, IA  50441

Phone 641-456-2049

    Grandpa’s Farm has old time farming demonstrations with vintage equipment powered by draft horses, steam engines, and antique tractors.  Demonstrations include threshing with hand fed wooden thresher powered by 7 teams on circular horse power , plowing, including an eight bottom gang plow,, corn shelling, milling, binding, saw mill, rock crusher, potato harvest, etc.

    Pleasant Hill is an early 1900’s town built on the fairgrounds.  There are demonstrations, craftsmen, entertainment, and reenactments.  Wild West Shows during the fair are sponsored by the Franklin County Bankers Association.  The Franklin County Historical Museum is on the fairgrounds and open daily during the fair.  There is also an extensive display of antique machinery.

     Grandpa’s Farm      Sponsors

Farm Credit Services

Sukup Manufacturing

Garst Seeds

Franklin Grassland Seeds

Twin State/Liquid Grow

Dupont Ag

Pioneer Seeds

AgVantage FS

FC Farmers Elevator

Dekalb Seeds

BASF

Latham Seeds

Valent

Ottlie Seed

Syngenta

Pleasant Hill Sponsors

Access Inc.

First National Bank

Franklin County Lumber

Rick’s Pharmacy

Faulkner Ag Center

Hampton JayCee’s

Adams Concrete   

Jasperson Insurance           

Sensor and Wagner Family Dentistry

Staley Real estate

First Security Bank

Sietsema-Vogel Funeral Home

Koenen-Collins Chiropractic Clinic

Sukup Mfg.

Giddings Signs

Hampton Hardware

 

Hampton Heating

Mort’s Inc.

John and Joy Lyman

Wearda Farm Management

Robert and Shirley Hograbe

Gast Insurance

Eagle Construction

Homemade ice cream at Pleasant Hill

 

GRANDPA’S TRACTOR CRUISE                                                                                        

Sponsored by Garst Seeds

Wednesday, July 16

Ride 8-11:30    Show noon—6 p.m.

Enter by June 30

For tractors 25 years or older