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Entries, OJferings emd Auards, Fair lUOl. 



Respectfully submitted, 



Thos. S Marshall, 



Superintendent Class K. 



CLASS L— EDUCATION. 

 F. C. ROSSITER. SupeHntendent . 



To the State Board oj Agriculture. 



Gentlemen— As superintendent of Class L, I desire to report that wbile 

 the number of entries of this year were less than the previous year, it was 

 the concensus of opinion tiiat the class of work in the exhibit this year was 

 superior to that of any former year, the reduction in the number of entries be- 

 ing from those who oiSfered the least artistic work heretofore. 



A growinjf interest in the exhibit seems to be manifest by the visitors at 

 the fair each year, there beinc a larpe number in attendance in the de- 

 partment, many of whom make it a special study; also by inquiries from 

 those not in attendance, why their exhibit this year received only second 

 prize, which was superior to their exhibit of last year which received first prize. 

 The answer was returned that owing to the advantage those in attendance 



