ANNUAL MEETING. 



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These observations might be inclefiuitely extended, but I conclude with 

 saying- that exhibitors l)eing educators in their respective lines, the man- 

 agement will not hesitate to encourage them in every possible way, and 

 satisfied exhibitors being the fair's best advertisers, a wise manage- 

 ment will seek to cultivate with them the most friendly relation. 



Mr. Tilson: I slioiikl like to ask if it is the custom usnally 

 to ask the exhibitors to pay a gate fee when they exhibit something 

 for which there is no premium offered ? We have some exhibitors 

 of that kind come to our fairs. !No premium is offered for their 

 class of exhibits. Other fairs give them their space and a certain 

 number of tickets. Is that the custom ? Our countv fairs ought 

 to have a uniform rule to govern that class of exhibits. 



Mr. Tuell: At the Cory don fair we never charge exhibitors 

 of articles for which nci proinium is oft'ered. 



Mr. Insley: I thiid-c that is the rule that prevails in most 

 societies, and it is ouc that is often abused. Our Secretarv and 

 Treasurer are often called upon by dealers — not by men represent- 

 ing the manufacturers — but our local dealers, who come to the 

 Secretary and say: ''I have a representative from the manufac- 

 turers that is coming here, and I Avould like to have eight or ten 

 tickets for him. Mr. So aud So will be working for me out there 

 this week, and as I can jiot leave my store I want tickets for him." 

 'I'his is an abuse, but it is one the associations will probably have 

 to tolerate. 



Robert Mitchell: We try to make everything as easy as possible 

 for the exhibitor. Stables are furnished free, straw is free, 

 tickets are furnished for the exhibitors and for the help, and 

 everything possible is done to make them welcome. There is, 

 however, one thing that the fair managers have not paid enough 

 attention to, and that is uniform rules in regard to exhibitors. 

 We are continually in trouble on account of the different manage- 

 ments. .We can not afford to tax the parties who make the ex- 

 hibits more than is absolutely necessary. As this paper says, the 

 expenses should be as light as possible upon the exhibitors, because 



