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state fair. The Missouri State Fair management's only aim is to promote 

 public welfare. There has been nothing selfish or narrow in its impulses 

 or designs. It is arranged upon a system which is the result of years 

 of experience, and it is the ardent wish of the men in control of the State 

 fair management to make Missouri State Fair purely educational and 

 inspirational. — Kansas Farmer. 



The tenth annual State fair is a worthy compliment to "Missouri, 

 the Imperial State, within whose hospital borders there is of room 

 and plenty for the millions." It bespeaks an awakening. It emphat- 

 ically declares for a new Missouri ; a State in which peace and plenty 

 shall reign supreme, representing an intellectual and industrial develop- 

 ment which has no superior. The resources of this great commonwealth 

 are reflected from every angle, in that exhibition to which every true son 

 and daughter of the State will point with a deserving pride. The Mis- 

 souri State fair of 1910 is a well balanced exposition. It is one which 

 maintains a degree of perfection hitherto unattained. It is a show which 

 pleases every comer. It is educational and instructive, carrying with it 

 an element of commercial value to every one who passes within its gate. 

 It more completely sets forth the chain of commercial activities represent- 

 ed than has any previous exhibition. It has no real high spots, but 

 admits of comparison only in the superlative degree. There is some- 

 thing doing every minute. Something to see that will instruct as well as 

 amuse. In fact it is the full worth of the price paid to see it. — Daily 

 Drovers' Telegram, Kansas City. 



Not to be outdone by her sister states in the matter of a State fair, 

 Missouri held at Sedalia this week the best and most satisfactory show . 

 of any in its history. Not a year in the last ten has the increase in all 

 departments been so marked, the attendance so large or the interest so 

 keen as this year. There were so many entertaining features of merit 

 that to attempt to see them all was to attempt an impossibility. Over 

 3,000 animals were entered in the different departments of the live stock 

 show, representing the best herds, flocks and studs of the country. In 

 many of the breeds the best show of the year was made, and not since 

 the World's Fair at St. Louis has there been such a showing of mules 

 in the State. In the cattle departments the entries were large and of 

 excellent quality, and in the swine and sheep departments the Missouri 

 standard was kept high. — The Breeders' Special, Kansas City. 



There is an appearance of permanency about the State fair build- 

 ings at Sedalia which impresses every visitor. When the fair was 

 organized its officials set themselves to erect buildings which would last. 

 They had profited by the experiences of other states, which had erected 

 frame barns and buildings, and then year after year spent large sums 



