AGRICULTURAL FAIR. 93 



■dairy products of this State bring into it millions and millions 

 of dollars every year, that go into the pockets of thousands of 

 people and add wealth to our State? And yet, when you go into 

 the exhibition halls at our State Fairs do you find a display that 

 represents this large industry of ours, or do you find there a 

 display that in itself, in its size, belittles that industry? Ought 

 not the managers of the fairs to offer premiums of sufficient size 

 and number that thev mav draw to the exhibition halls a dis- 

 play of dairy products that will advertise our business to the peo- 

 ple in our own cities and villages and to the people who come 

 to these fairs from outside of the State? 



The potato industry of this State brings within our borders 

 millions upon millions of dollars every year, and those dollars, 

 too, are distributed among our people all over the State, they 

 are adding wealth to the State constantly, and yet if you go to 

 one of these fairs do you see there an exhibit of potatoes that in 

 any way represents this industry? If you were to judge the 

 industry from the exhibit that you find at the fairs, you would 

 say that the raising of potatoes in this State was of little conse- 

 quence, it was a minor matter ; and I submit to the fair managers 

 of Maine whether it would not be well to offer premiums in size 

 and in numbers that will draw a display of potatoes which will 

 attract the attention of the people in our cities and villages and 

 of those outside our borders who come in here, and show to them 

 what the potato raisers of this State are doing and what a great 

 industrv it is becoming:. 



Again, the Baldwin apple has brought into this State millions 

 of dollars, and that money has gone into the pockets of thousands 

 of the people. It has increased the business and added to the 

 wealth, not only of the men on the farms but of the men in the 

 villages and cities ; and yet, if you go to the State fairs you \v\S\. 

 find on exhibition there just a few plates. A few dollars, a 

 Tery few dollars, are offered in premiums by our fair managers 

 for the Baldwin apples, an industry of tremendous importance in 

 the State, and if this industry were to be judged by the exhibit 

 at our fairs it would be deemed of no consequence. If an out- 

 sider were to visit our State fairs and examine the exhibit of 

 Baldwin apples and judge the industry by that exhibit, he would 

 say, "Maine is not a place where Baldwin apples can be bought." 

 Now I submit, as a fair proposition, whether a sufticient amount 



