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out any chang-e whatever. We did not, however, in our first exhibits fill all this 

 space but allowed some other person, usually a representative of some farm 

 paper, to occupy a portion of our allotted space. The past two or three years, 

 however, we have filled our space entirely, and have wished for more. It is 

 almost impossible for us to give an estimate of the number of visitors that seek 

 information at the exhibit of the station. Some days there will be many more 

 than on other daj's, and at some hours of the day they will be much more 

 numerous than at others. It -has been the privilege of the writer to have charge 

 of the exhibit at the State Fair for a number of years, and during that time I 

 have known the space to be practically crowded \\ith people seeking informa- 

 tion and examining the exhibits, so much so that we have had hundreds in 

 two or three hours. Usually we find the largest numbers seeking information 

 will come from 10 to 12 in the morning, and from 1.30 to 4 in the afternoon. 

 Aside from these hours it is seldom that we have any visitors seeking informa- 

 tion unless it has been some one who had been there before, and failed to secure 

 the information he desired. It is not always the men that go to the exhibit for 

 information, but many ladies as well ****'> 



"Our State Fair exhibit is becoming more popular, and is attracting greater 

 attention each year, inasmuch as we are attempting to show the results of our 

 soil and crop work in detail there. We have the e.xperiment farm located here 

 at Urbana, represented in miniature, with the crops growing on the different 

 plots even as they would be seen here at the station. Together with this we 

 have a statement for a number of years back, giving the yields, crops grown, 

 effect of fertilizers, if any, etc. We have also in other portions of state, other 

 than here at Urbana, crop production fields, one at Fairfield, Wayne county, 

 one at DeKalb, DeKalb county, and one at Sibley, Ford county. Tihis coming 

 fall will complete three years' work on the field at Fairfield, Wayne county. 

 Therefore we shall include in our exhibit a miniature reproduction of the 

 Fairfield field with the crops growing upon the different plots even as they 

 would be seen there. This will crowd to some extent our space, but we feel 

 confident that the interest shown and the informiatlon given in this way is of 

 sufficient value to warrant the crowding of our exhibit quite materially. 



"Trusting that this will be satisfactory to you, and will be of service to you, 

 I am, 



"Very truly yours 



"(Signed) O. D. CENTER." 



"University of Wisconsin, 

 "Agricultural Experiment Station, 

 "Madison, Wis., January 17, 1907. 

 "Mr. B. S. Bayard: 



"My Dear Sir: Tours of recent date to hand, and I note what you say re- 

 garding the exhibit at the State Fair. The "V\''isconsin Agricultural Experiment 

 Association made this ex'hibit for the first time this year. We used a booth 

 about thirty feet in width and about twenty in depth. * * * 



"At the International Live Stock Exposition we made an exhibit from the 

 College of Agriculture, using about sixty feet of wall space. W'e also showed a 

 part of the Wisconsin Experim.ent Association Exhibit at this exhibit. 



"At both places there were so many thousand people visiting our exhibit and 

 listened to talks concerning various phases of the exhibit that it would be very 

 hard for me to make any estimate of the number. Our exhibits at both places 

 were well received by the directors and by the people in general. 



"I feel that the Wisconsin Experiment Association is doing a great good for 

 the farmers of Wisconsin. The organization was effected in 1901 and has now 

 a membership of practically (paid-up) one thousand. The membership is scat- 

 tered so widely over our state that they place before many farmers in Wiscon- 

 sin demonstrations that can be done with pure-bred seed grains and forage 

 plants. * * * 



"Sincerely yours, 



"R. A. MOORE." 



LOCAL EXHIBITIONS. 



If Pennsylvania has not a Slate Fair, it has many local fairs. 

 Why could not exhibits and lecturers or expounders be utilized at 

 these fairs? A few more exhibits must be provided for, and a few 

 more men used; but by properly arranged circuits a few exhibits 

 could be made to cover in a few years the entire State at com- 

 paratively small expense. But it takes two parties to make satis 



