ASSOCIATION OF FAIR-MANAGERS. ISo 



The question is raised, '"Wliy not let tlio supeiiutendent give this infor- 

 mation?" He knows all these things. Well, find the superintendent and 

 get the information. It will usuallj' be as easy to locate the exhibit as 

 the superintendent, for in each case the inquirer is hunting for a stranger 

 in a strange land. 



It seems to me that this would relieve every superintendent of much 

 ti'ouble and it would certainly be a great benefit to the exhibitor and 

 patrons of the fair. 



Let this bureau be connected with the telephone and have the time 

 tables of every railroad and electric line and Avhere they will stop. Also 

 the time of all special trains' arrival and departure. 



They should have the program complete, and whenever any change is 

 made it must be reported to them immediately, that they may make no 

 mistakes. It is due the exhibitors and the patrons that they know of 

 any change as soon as that change is decided upon. 



Of cour.«e there are many little details that will naturally come up. 

 and some annoyance, and perhaps every person docs not realize the 

 questions that are asked. 



If our fairs are to be a success in the future we must cater to the 

 wants of the people, and I think most of them want to see what they 

 pay for. One person who is disappointed will do a fair more harm than 

 twenty pleased patrons will do it good. 



At most of the county fairs this arrangement can be made at the 

 secretarj^'s office, but how often Ave find tiiat oflice locked up, and we 

 can hunt for the information wanted or go away without it. 



Pi'esident Insley: If every fair had a superintendent who was such 

 a bureau of information as our Lawrenceburg friend there wouldn't be 

 so much trouble. I visited the Lawrenceburg fair last j'ear, and found 

 that Brother Nowlin was about the whole thing there, and I found out, 

 too, that they had a good fair. 



Mr. W. E. Blackstock read the following paper: 



THE FUTURE OUTLOOK FOR COUNTY FAIRS. 



Public sentiment in this State in favor of agricultural and mechan- 

 ical exhibitions is of recent origin and wholly within the past fifty years. 

 The county fair system became common only about twenty years ago 

 and has scarcely passed its experimental stages. In some counties meet- 

 ings have been held consecutively for ten, twenty or thirty years, and 

 are still in popular favor, wliile on the other hand there are others that 

 started just as well, and ran fairly for a time, but now their buildings 

 are weather-stained, fences are tottering and their general appearances 

 indicate a doubtful futtire. There are still others tliat have gone to 



