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simply having a cold display of paintings and drawings. The Min- 

 nesota State Art Commission, under the directorship of Maurice I. 

 Flagg, is coupling up art with agriculture, as well as all lines of 

 industry. The art exhibit at the last Minnesota State Fair was 

 shown to over a quarter of a million INKnnesotans in a single week. 

 It consisted of a notable collection of American paintings, gave to 

 every artist in the state of Minnesota honor where honor was due, 

 and actually instructed sixty thousand persons in picture making 

 and in the enjoyment of pictures and sculpture. An outdoor gal- 

 lery was arranged, where the director of the Milwaukee Society of 

 Fine Arts, Dudley Crafts Watson, gave lectures and demonstra- 

 tions in picture making. As Mr. Watson expressed it, here he found 

 the response on the part of the "man of the soil," hearty and gen- 

 uine. 



Another educational feature of this year's Minnesota State Fair 

 was found in the wood building materials exhibit. Besides the 

 model, consisting of nine perfect houses, all built of white pine 

 and to a scale, with streets, walks, lawns, gardens, street lights, 

 etc., all of which was quite interesting and attracted much attention, 

 the Northwestern Lumbermen's Association put on an exhibit 

 showing the different grades of lumber sold on the lumber market 

 today. You would have been astounded at the interest taken in 

 this rough board exhibit, and more so by the ignorance of 99 per 

 cent of the people as to grades. 



TWO WAYS OP LEARNING. 



There are two ways of imparting knowledge, — one by exposition 

 and model, the other by precept. The former method has many 

 advantages over the latter, which will occur to all of you. In the 

 first place, all people can and do learn by seeing things ; only a com- 

 paratively few by studying precepts and rules. There are so many 

 things which you cannot teach in any way but by model and exposi- 

 tion. Take for example the grades of grain, or standardization in 

 packages and market grades. You cannot produce an animal or breed 

 up a herd of cattle to a high degree of perfection without the ideal 

 in mind, to which you are working. The breeder must first have 

 the conception or mental picture, before he can produce the animal. 

 The same is true in all lines of endeavor, not only agricultural but 

 industrial affairs. The state fair is, in my mind, the greatest ex- 

 isting exponent of the most important of all methods of imparting 

 instruction, viz.: exposition and model. It brings together the 



