218 HOARD OF AOKK'ULTUKE. 



Another thiiiy. it is ;i step in advance of any other lair in the United 

 States. It has heen an advertisement for the Indiana State Fair and for 

 the Indiana lire<>(h>rs. I am in favor of j^oinj^ on with the State chiss. 



Secretary Gartin: I met one of the members of the State Board this 

 afternoon. .Mr. XildaeU, of Vincennes, and lohl him I wanted to ecu- 

 jiratulate him (ui his re-election. I told him 1 felt if it had not been 

 for him. Ilie Indi.-inn breeders wouhl not liave secured the $500 for this 

 sjjecial class. 1 can now say the same to Col. Wallace. They worked 

 hard to get this State class. We raised the money and divided the 

 l)remiums so as to utilize the .$1,000, .f^oOO of which came from our State 

 l)reeders. ;ind .S.liKi from the State I'.oard. All of that fmid except $30 

 was shown for and won. ]Most of the animals that won that money 

 stood in the prize list at tlie International. I think the State class is a 

 beneht to the young breeders. I made an exhibit of a full herd of 

 Shorthorns at the Indiana State Fair in IS'.Ki. and won, as I thought, a 

 full share of the premiums. We sold our cattle about that time, and I 

 ■was not interested in Shorthorns again until the last three or four years. 

 When Ave Avere making this class, I was in favor of making it open to 

 Indiana exhibitors. 



Dr. (^)iiick: I think the State class is a very g(M)d thing and has done 

 much to bring out breeders to the front. There is no (luestion that the 

 State Fair has started calves to the International that never would have 

 gotten there if it had not been for the State class.. The owner takes a 

 calf into good company and finds out that he belongs there. I think the 

 State class should be continued. 



Mr. Robbins: The best way to test this is to see how much money 



•we can make up here tonight. There is only one drawback to this State 



Fair class this year, and that is, it is going to clash with the dates in 



St. Louis, and I don't know wbether it is advisable to try to make a 



State class or not. 



Col. Wallace: Why not? 



Mr. Bobbins: Simply for the fact that Ave want to get everything 

 possible centered in St. Louis. 



Col. Wallace: But Ave have also Indiana to look after. The shoAv 

 at St. Louis is going to l)e made by the old men and the men prominent 

 in the business, and those you can count on the fingers of your two 

 hands. In this State you can count them on one hand. What I Avant 

 to do if we get this fair, is to get a lot of younger men to shoAV their 

 cattle here. I believe Ave will get our exhibitors from an entirely new 

 class of people. I dcm't say that Avith any disrespect to our older shoAv 

 men, and if I have any say in the matter, I don't propose to consider 

 St. Louis at all. St. Louis is not going to assist lis in any Avay; slie is 



