THE PURPOSE OF THE FAIR. IO9 



education in this world. We want more object lesson work at 

 our fairs. I was very glad to hear the work in judging empha- 

 sized. I believe in a single expert judge. Some of you know 

 that I also believe in the use of the score card. I believe in it 

 for this reason, if for no other : I believe that the man who 

 exhibits, whether he wins or loses, is entitled to all the informa- 

 tion possible, to carry home with him, and so I believe in a 

 record made by the judge. Every judge should be required to 

 remain upon the fair grounds at least one-half day after his 

 work is done, in order that he may meet exhibitors, talk with 

 them, and give them his reasons for the awards, and so help 

 to this sharper insight into the things which are all about us 

 and which control us largely in the work we have to do. 

 Because, whether we are growing fruit or keeping dairy cows 

 we do not realize that we are touching myster}^ all the while. 

 And when we have compassed all that is possible there is so 

 much that we cannot fathom, that we want continually to be 

 seeking to see a little more, to know a little more. Therefore 

 the exhibition which seeks for its sole purpose the stimulating 

 of the eye to a larger insight is the exhibition that is going to 

 help most in the future. We want to put our money into 

 exhibits and not into the cheap vaudeville. Too many of us 

 are content with an entertainment given because it helps take up 

 the hours, whereas the object should be to make the whole time 

 educative in the line of exhibits, allowing the judging to be done 

 where the public can see the most of it, where the exhibitors can 

 ask questions and the man making the awards shall answer them, 

 for if a man is not ready to publicly give a reason he is not fit to 

 stand in the place of judge. These things come back to the peo- 

 ple who make the exhibts. I think the crticism we would make 

 today upon some of our exhibitions would really be charged 

 back to the men who make the exhibits, because they have not 

 demanded of the societies that they come up to these standards. 

 The work which would do the most good the exhibitors have not 

 demanded. We have been content to take our stock to the fairs, 

 and take what we could get, whereas we ought to demand our 

 individual rights and insist upon the reasons from the judge for 

 making his awards. 



There comes to my mind an object lesson which I saw upon 

 the fair grounds at Woodstock, N. B. In the dairy test there 



