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to attract the eye and the latest improved methods have been adopted 

 for handling the business successfully. The same methods should be 

 applied to the fair. No one would expect the business man to succeed 

 if he should attempt to run his business on the same plan that he used 

 twenty-flve years ago, and neither can the fair. 



I believe the old buildings should give way to new and more modern 

 ones, and all should be kept well painted and in good repair. The stalls 

 and barns should be kept in the best condition— clean and healthy. Make 

 the stay of your exhibitor as pleasant as possible. Nothing should be 

 left undone for his convenience, as it is the exhibitor that makes the 

 fair. Special attention should be given the grounds and they should be 

 kept as near like a park as possible. 



The premium list should be revised each year— adding to and taking 

 from as the existing conditions would require, but always keeping the 

 list in advance rather than behind. 



The first duty of an officer of any fair association is to study the 

 question of fair management until he has thoroughly acquainted him- 

 self with all its details, then keep his eyes open and his brain at work 

 to see wherein he can improve his department. The superintendents of 

 the different departemnts should be expected to look after the needs 

 of the exhibitors of their departments. It is too often the case that the 

 exhibitor sees the superintendent of his class only when the ribbons are 

 being tied. His duty is with his department until the fair closes. 



As to salaries, I believe that the fair work should be largely a patriotic 

 work. While it is always necessary to pay some salaries, I do not think 

 it necessary to pay as much for fair labor as the same labor would bring 

 in other occupations. I believe the Secretary should be paid and he 

 should do the work of all the departments up to the time of the fair; 

 have a good system of bookkeeping, by which he can handle the business, 

 with rapidity and make prompt settlements, and be prepared to pay the 

 exhibitors on the last day of the fair. There is nothing that will keep up 

 the standard of the county fair more than prompt payments. 



The next subject on the program, "Proper Privileges/' was led 

 by Mr. H. L. ISTowlin, Lawrenceburg, who said : 



The question of what are the proper privileges is certainly one that is 

 of much importance to all our fairs, and from the privileges we see 

 sold on different fair grounds we must infer that the different manage- 

 ments have a wide range of views as to what proper privileges are. Usu- 

 ally the first thing we look after in selling privileges is the money. But 

 the patrons of a fair also demand that we have certain things on the 

 fair grounds in the shape of privileges. So in considering what are proper 

 privileges we should look at it from a financial standpoint and also from 

 the standpoint of what is demanded by our patrons. There is one class 



