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here had never been seen there before. They compared it with 

 the ordinary fair that had been held down there. The first fair 

 held in this country was held in Massachusetts in 1804, 50 Massa- 

 chusetts is the home of the first fair, but the show was very well 

 patronized this year and the exhibit was very large and they have 

 taken to it very enthusiastically. At the present time I think and 

 feel that it will do much towards increasing the live stock produc- 

 tion in that country. Allied with the exposition we have an or- 

 ganization termed the Eastern States Agricultural League, which 

 has several bureaus, one of the bureaus being the boys' and girls' 

 bureau. Some of the men that put money into the exposition com- 

 pany there have financed this farm bureau to the extent of ap- 

 proximately $350,000 at the present time, running over a period of 

 five years. That money is contributed so much a year for a period 

 of five years. Men like Theodore N. Vail put in $75,000, and 

 other men $25,000. We have at the head of that bureau Mr. Den- 

 nison, who has been at the head of the boys' and girls' work at Wash- 

 ington. He started with our organization on the first of December. 

 Another bureau that we have in connection with the organization is 

 the market bureau. That bureau at the present time has been de- 

 voting its time entirely along the lines of assisting in the purchase 

 of feeds. The farming operations, as you know, are conducted on a 

 small scale there, and most of those fellows in the last few years 

 have had to buy the feeds necessary to carry on their dairying and 

 farming operations, and through this market organization we have 

 been able to save them all the way from two to ten dollars a ton in 

 the cost of feed to the farmers. They have at the present time, I 

 think about 48 of the 66 counties in New England organized, and 

 this organization that I am at the present time connected with 

 down there, while we, of course, are small compared with the 

 Iowa State Fair and some other state fairs out here, I feel that the 

 organization is doing a good work and that it is growing by the fact, 

 as you will know when I tell you, that next to the Iowa State Fair 

 we have the largest cattle show that has been held by any fair in 

 the country this year. As I said to my friends in low.-i when I went 

 to Minnesota, unless you keep stepping all the time, I'll show you 

 a larger live stock show, especially in cattle, than you have out here. 

 I tnank you ! 



The Chairman : We are going back to the discussion portion of 

 our program, and the first thing we will take up is the topic we 

 had under consideration this morning — games and concessions, shall 



