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of money repairing and improving and replacing. The Missouri of- 

 ficials realized that it was economy to build well and durably in the 

 beginning. And so they saw to it that every building was put up as 

 solidly and as substantially as though it were to be used the year around 

 as the permanent home of the finest live stock and machinery. The 

 result is most pleasing to the eye and most gratifying to exhibitors and 

 visitors alike. Not a stable but is of brick, with cement floor, kept in the 

 best of order and condition. The live stock pavilion is an architectural 

 adornment to any state fair ground, and commodious and comfortable in 

 the extreme. The poultry building, agricultural and horticultural 

 building, art hall, State University building — without exception, the 

 structures are good for a quarter of a century or more to come, with 

 little outlay for upkeep. There are many other state fairs which could 

 well afford to go to Missouri and learn a lesson in the economy of large 

 outlay in the beginning. — Farmer and Stockman. 



Having its inception under the discouraging conditions coincident 

 with inclement weather such as has marred the opening of practically 

 every State fair of the year, the tenth annual State fair of JNIissouri 

 triumphed despite handicaps and set a new high mark of enthusiasm and 

 progress. Attendance, quality and quantity of exhibits, amusement 

 features and general interest in the fair seem to have surpassed all previ- 

 ous years' records, and the people of Missouri are admittedly proud of 

 the great show staged at Sedalia the week of October 1-7. There's a 

 freshness and wholesomeness in the welcome extended upon arrival, and 

 the visitor's flattering opinion is only intensified by subsequent contact 

 with the citizens. Missouri has one of the best corn shows the writer has 

 ever examined, not excepting the National Com Exposition's great show- 

 ing ! Truth to tell, as a well known agricultural writer and close observer 

 remarked : ' ' Missouri hasn 't made quite so much noise about corn im- 

 provement as some states possessing high class press agents, but she has 

 gone ahead faster in corn improvement than any corn belt State." 

 That's an exceedingly strong statement, yet I believe the exliibit of 

 corn this year almost justified this optimistic statement. — Twentieth 

 Century Farmer. 



Great stress has always been placed upon the educational features 

 of the Missouri fair, and this year all previous efforts were surpassed. 

 From the University of Missouri exhibit, said to be the most complete 

 of the kind ever made at any state fair in America, to the entries by 

 hundreds of rural schools throughout the. State, there is much to see and 

 study, to uplift and inspire. The management of the fair has always 

 placed manhood above money, never catering to the common or selling 

 to fakirs the right to fleece its patrons. — Orange Judd Farmer. 



