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help you by sending you home with broader ideas. Then go in and 

 see the students from fifteen or twenty of our Agricultural Colleges, 

 with note-books in hand, judging the diiferent specimens of cattle 

 and horses, to develop their ability as judges. Then we come to the 

 State Fair, where they are demonstrating butter making, and the 

 Babcock test, hundreds of people stand there to listen and ask ques- 

 tions. And then we go out to look at the agricultural machinery, 

 and see the number of people who come to these State Fairs to see 

 the different makes of manure-spreaders, cement posts, silos, fences, 

 and all the other modern implements for farm work. We must see 

 these things for ourselves; we can't Y>'rite all over the country to 

 the different makers, and obtain any intelligent idea from their 

 circulars, but we come to the SLato Fair, and listen to the salesmen, 

 as they demonstrate the points of excellence of their particular 

 make; we carry home a working idea. We know what we want when 

 we are ready to buy. And I want to say right here that manufac- 

 turers are having to employ a better class of salesmen from year to 

 year than formerly, because the farmers demand it. The grow^th 

 of educational influences through our State Fairs has been very 

 marked in the past few years. 



These are some of the educational influences that are going on 

 outside of our schools and colleges. Take this matter of our corn 

 showing, for instance; there is not one of you who goes out and looks 

 at the different kinds of corn that are showm there, but will profit 

 by it even if you don't have anybody to point out to you the fact 

 that very few of the ears have perfect buts or top. All of these 

 things arouse your interest, and shov/ you that there are very im- 

 portant educational influences at work around us, many of them in 

 our own State. But another speaker will have more to say on that. 



To sum up: Some of the educational influences at work in other 

 states which we might consider with a view to adopting such as may 

 be adapted to our conditions are: 



Co-operative field experiments on many farms. 



The boys' corn growing contests with a course at the Agricultural 

 College as the prize for the successful contestant. 



Traveling dairy instructors to help the butter makers and cheese 

 makers, and to start cow testing associations. 



Special dairy, corn, and good farming grains. 



Excursions to the Agricultural College and Experiment Station. 



The International Live Stock Show. 



The National Dairy Show. 



The State Fair. 



The CHAIRMAN: I would again ask if Dr. Hays has entered the 

 room since we have opened this discussion? 



It appeared he had not come. 



The CHAIRMAN: As Dr. Hays is not here, we will call on Mr. 

 Bayard, of the ''National Stockman and Farmer." 



Thereupon Mr. Bayard read the following paper: 



