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only in the country, and blessed are the boys and girls who have the 

 opportunity to live where nature seems most to live." 



A powerful agency for good in the country chaos (largely a result 

 of the back-to-the-land movement) of today is the agricultural and 

 country press. The pages of such papers are the people's forum — and 

 more. A good agricultural paper gives tcr each of its readers a free 

 agricultural course by mail and at the same time many a man is taught 

 to appreciate the beauties of the world about him — his own and God's. 



Slowly, it sometimes seems, but surely, is the all-embracing problem 

 of country life being solved by those in sympathy with it, and as the 

 work progresses the country more and more becomes a good place in 

 which to live, but a poor place to leave. 



THE MISSOURI STATE FAIR AS OTHERS SEE IT. 



Today Missouri has a million dollar exposition, 

 with a score of substantial buildings of brick and 

 steel, located in the beautiful State Fair Grounds 

 Park at Sedalia, where only a decade ago was a 

 Missouri farm about which there was nothing to 

 indicate that it was soon to be the meeting place for 

 thousands of people and the battle grounds for the 

 champions of the live stock world. The initial 

 meeting was a revelation to Missourians, just as later 

 John T. stinson, meetings have been to the nation at large. Best of 



Secretary. all, the growtli lias been as permanent as it has been 



phenomenal. With past achievements looming large, the 1911 meeting, 

 September 30 to October 6 — "Always the first week in October" — 

 promises to be a pace-maker. Some press comments concerning the 

 1910 fair follow: 



Missouri's 10th annual State fair, held at Sedalia last week, was 

 the best balanced and most comprehensive agricultural show ever made 

 by that' State. All departments were admirably furnished with exhibits, 

 the net result being a harmonious, proportioned index of Missouri's new 

 agri&ulture. A larger percentage than usual of the attendance were farm 

 folk. Every agricultural region of the State contributed visitors, most of 

 whom had not seen the fair before. Under the aggressive publicity policy 

 which Secretary J. T. Stinson, aided by W. L. Nelson and others, has been 

 following the past few years, the fair has been heard of in every county in 

 Missouri. Citizens quite generally now know that their State has a 



