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CLASS H— HORTICULTURE AND FLORICULTURE. 



W. A. YOUNG, Superintendent. 



Lot 141 — Cut Flowers, Designs, Etc. (For professional 



florists only.) 



Albert T. Hey. Springfield. Ill : 



Exhibit of Kold fish Honorable mention 



CLASS K~TEXTILE FABRICS. 

 THOMAS S. MARSHALL, Superintendent. 



Lot 152 — Fancy Work. 



Lieatenant W. L. Capps. Sprlnefleld. 111.: 



Collection of fancy work, curios and fabrics from the Philllplne Islands.. Commendation 



Respectfully submitted. 



Thomas S. Marshall, 

 f. c. rossiter, 

 Jacob F. Rehm. 



Committee on Miscellaneous Awards. 

 TRANSPORTATION. 

 J. IRVING PEARCE, Superintendent. 



lo the Illinois State Board of Agriculture. 



Gentlemen: — All railroads in Illinois that I have made application to for 

 transportation on account of the Illinois State Board of Agriculture have 

 willingly granted every request that I have made for transportation of mem- 

 bers of our board, for the assistants and judges who acted in that capacity at 

 the State Fair, except three roads which were not willing to do as they 

 had done heretofore, and the very ones who have perhaps interested them- 

 selves as much in the fairs previous to this as any in the State declined to do 

 all that was requested, though nothing more was asked of them than of other 

 roads in the State, and the dilatory manner in which the requests were 

 treated put much more labor upon the superintendent of this department 

 than ever heretofore. Their final action being given only a few days before 

 the opening of the fair made it necessary to telegraph and write to all parties 

 that had been selected as fudges and assistants, as well as the members of 

 the board, causing an additional expense and labor to this department. 



These roads, as well as all others, admit that they received greater benefits 

 from the fair — that is, carried greater numbers of people to and trom the 

 fair— than in any previous year. 



One road, whose lines run very limitedly in our State, declined to do any- 

 thing for us, because they were not doing it in their own State. 



Our board expended large sums for advertising, did everything it could do, 

 and would have done a great deal more if the roads had provided earlier 

 means of distributing such information as was necessary to bring to the 

 county fairs the advertising matter that would secure their co- operation and 

 the attendance of their visitors and exhibitors to the State Fair. 



On the whole the fair was a success in point of exhibits and attendance, 

 and it has been demonstrated that attendance can be greatly increased by 

 offering inducements to people outside of Springfield and its immediate neigh- 

 borhood. I believe that it is as much, if not more, in the interest of the 

 roads, as it is to the interest of the fair itself, that the roads should act liber- 



