S6 BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. [Jan., 



Mr. Woodruff. The gentleman has never been to the 

 Orange fair. If he will agree to come down we will send him 

 a complimentary ticket, and, after he has attended, I feel 

 pretty sure that his ideas will change. And just at this point 

 I want to call your attention to a lot of photographs which 

 illustrate a very few of the good things which were sent out 

 voluntarily at the Orange fair last fall. We should be very 

 glad to have all the people here, and in fact all in the State, 

 know that there is one up-to-date agricultural fair which is 

 still conducted in this State, and which is making money. I 

 believe that the money is well spent in conducting such a fair 

 as we have. I think there will be a move made to get more 

 money out of the State for the agricultural fairs, and if they 

 are well run they ought to be a help to agriculture. The 

 trouble with the agricultural fair is a good deal of the same 

 nature that we have had with the abandoned farms. The 

 young fellows have left the farms, but when you take hold 

 of them right we have found out that there are things which 

 are adapted to them so that there is a chance to make them 

 a credit to the State. It is just the same way with the agri- 

 cultural fairs. You let the right people get hold of them and 

 manage them in. an up-to-date way and there is no question 

 in my mind about their being a credit to the State and a 

 benefit to agriculture. 



Secretary Brown. That is not the only one. I have 

 attended fairs in the State of Connecticut that were agricul- 

 tural fairs and nothing else. There was no vaudeville. They 

 were purely and simply agricultural fairs, which were profit- 

 able and interesting. Now, in reply to what the gentleman 

 said, I think that the best agricultural fair that I have ever 

 known is the agricultural fair that is conducted at Kingston, 

 R. I. Perhaps Mr. Hale has attended it. It is one of the 

 best agricultural fairs in New England, and one of the best 

 things connected with that fair for years was the public 

 address of the Hon. .Rowland Hazzard, who, notwithstanding 



