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encouragement of the things of real worth and substantial value. 

 There is no place in Missouri for the parasite. We do not need 

 him. There is no place in Missouri for the cheap politician. We 

 can not use him in the kind of service that we want and really 

 need. 



Away with the demagogue and all that he represents. Let us 

 work for something that is worth while. I would paraphrase Gold- 

 smith's lines by saying: 



111 fares the land; to hastening ills a prey, 

 Where wealth accumulates and farms decay. 



THE COUNTY FAIR EXHIBIT. 



(Dean F. B. Mumford. ) 



I want to express my pleasure at being able to welcome the 

 representatives of the County Fair Managers' Association of Mis- 

 souri to Columbia and to the College of Agriculture during this 

 Farmers' Week. This is an educational week and it is particularly 

 appropriate that the county fairs should be represented here, be- 

 cause I do not know of any other rural organization that is doing 

 any more in an educational way than the county fairs of Missouri. 

 We feel that you are co-operating in the work of the College of 

 Agriculture in these meetings. 



I believe I am on the program to talk to you particularly about 

 the exhibit of the College of Agriculture at the county fairs. I 

 want, in the first place, to say that the best exhibit that so far has 

 been made by the College of Agriculture at the county fairs are the 

 live stock judges that have been supplied by the department of 

 animal husbandry for the purpose of passing upon the live-stock 

 exhibits at these fairs. About five or six years ago I wrote to a 

 number of you and suggested that it might be possible for the 

 department of animal husbandry to supply you with judges for 

 live stock. It was the business of the department of animal 

 husbandry to train men to judge live stock. I got some very 

 interesting letters from certain people who said my proposition 

 was preposterous. They didn't want any beardless boys to come 

 out and judge their live stock. They didn't want any college 

 judges. That put somewhat of a damper on my enthusiasm, but 

 at least two fairs decided to try it out with much hesitation and 

 misgiving, and one of the men who was sent out that first year wag 



