104 AGRICULTURE OF MAINE. 



We found museums and art galleries for the exhibit of man's 

 masterpieces in sculpture and painting, yet the inimitable blend- 

 ing of nature's rich colors in fruits and vegetables and the blend- 

 ed and harmonious outlines of domestic animals, touched and 

 idealized by the breeder's art, will so far rise above the best 

 product of the painter's brush or the sculptor's chisel that the 

 exhibits of our fairs will always remain far more inviting than 

 all that wealth and culture can do for museums and art galleries. 

 If we find museums and art galleries essential to pleasure and 

 culture, how much more do we need exhibits of those objects that 

 art at its best but poorly imitates. 



IN WHAT WAY SHOULD AN AGRICULTURAL 

 FAIR ENCOURAGE THE BREEDER OF HORSES? 



By Dr. C. D. Smead, Logan, N. Y. 



(Stenographic Copy.) 



We have a few excellent fairs in the state of New York, and 

 it has been my fortune to be connected with a good fair, in an 

 official capacity, as an exhibitor and as a judge; so I have had 

 the opportunity of studying some along the line of fair manage- 

 ment and seeing, as it were, both sides of the proposition ; and 

 with all that, I know but little yet in regard to this subject. An 

 allusion has been made to the article which I wrote when I came 

 into Maine, in which I compared Maine with New York. When 

 I came into the State I saw that Maine had resources and 

 advantages which I did not see right in my own native state of 

 New York. I saw pastures here, even on what you call your 

 poorer land, your grass land, of which the better parts of New 

 York would feel proud, if they could have the same condition. 

 It has been my fortune, along the line of the study of horse 

 breeding, to visit the country where horses are raised to a greater 

 extent than they have ever been raised in New York or Maine, 

 or any of the eastern states, and I may say to you truthfully this 

 afternoon that I never have seen in that great western country 

 soil so well adapted to the rearing of horses in a state of perfec- 

 tion as I have seen in the past two weeks in the State of Maine. 

 And yet, what do I hear in relation to horse breeding in Maine? 

 As I came to the hotel here in Waterville I saw an advertise- 



