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Mr. Cochel, now here talking to the cattle feeders and at present 

 professor of animal husbandry at the Kansas State College of 

 Agriculture. The next year five fairs employed college judges, 

 the next year fifteen, the next year thirty, the next year forty-two, 

 and the last year over fifty. The condition now is that we are 

 practically unable to supply enough of these young men to go 

 around. This is the best exhibit that we send out and I want to 

 say on behalf of my colleagues that we greatly appreciate the 

 courtesy that you have shown these young men and your charity 

 in the mistakes which they sometimes make. I have never seen a 

 judge yet who was able to judge all classes without making a mis- 

 take. But their work seems to be satisfactory. 



For the last two years we have been making an exhibit of the 

 College of Agriculture and attempting to demonstrate some of the 

 work going on here. We have no money for making such an 

 exhibit, but succeeded in getting our board of curators to appropri- 

 ate sufficient funds to prepare an exhibit and I took the matter up 

 with the fair associations as to whether or not they would pay 

 shipping charges and expenses of a man in charge. The reports 

 that I have received have so far been very favorable. I have tried 

 to follow up these exhibits to find out what you people think about 

 them. I wrote the secretaries of the county fairs last year who 

 had had our exhibits and said, "I want you to tell me frankly what 

 you think about the exhibit that the College of Agriculture sent out. 

 Is it worth while, did it appeal to your people, do you want it any 

 more? I hope you will be perfectly frank with me so I will know 

 if this is a good project to push," Some replies were like this: 

 "As secretary of the organization I had so much to do during 

 the week that I didn't see your exhibit." However, in some cases 

 I wrote to the other officials and they told me that in general it 

 was satisfactory; in others it was not spectacular enough. We 

 have tried to make it educational and as interesting as we can and 

 not too dry and uninteresting, and we have sent men along to 

 demonstrate. I feel that the experiment has been successful and 

 we want to co-operate with you gentlemen in making the Missouri 

 county fairs educational institutions. If this little exhibit that 

 we are sending out will help to do that, it will be continued. If you 

 gentlemen want it, we will send it. If you don't want it, it will 

 be discontinued. 



