TENTH ANNUAL YEAR BOOK- PART V 168 



in September, which is the first day of our fair, and which detracts from 

 the energy of the worlt done by our youthful advertisers. Let me urge upon 

 every fair official to endeavor to get the county superintendent working, 

 and note results. 



The older people who attend the fair do so from the realization that 

 it is the one place where a liberal education can be secured on any par- 

 ticular phase of practical farm life in a shorter space of time than can 

 be gathered elsewhere. For the permanent good of western agriculture it is 

 my pleasure to urge you to advocate the sending of every boy in your 

 community to your splendid school at Ames, or, if you prefer, to our 

 school at Lincoln. Every true Iowa son should be able to spend the 

 time necessary to go through the Agricultural College, and there receive 

 the training which will permit him to assist in carrying on the agricul- 

 tural interests of his state, until it occupies the position which rightfully 

 belongs to it; not occasionally first in production, but first every year. 

 It can be done. 



You, "boys," who are too old, and that occurs only after you have 

 passed seventy-five, and whose family and business cares prevent yoa 

 taking a course at Ames or Lincoln, should religiously resolve that you will 

 never miss either your county or state fair, for there will be found the 

 object lesson which teaches more at a glance than could be learned from 

 books or lectures in a week; there you will view the outstanding points 

 of the animal and raw comparisons with the animal at home which is 

 "just as good," except in a point or two, about which you may comment 

 lightly with a hearer, but nine times out of ten you will profit by that 

 identical comparison. There you will make a selection of the machine 

 which you are intending to buy very soon. There you have the opportunity 

 of examining the various makes shown to their best advantage by the 

 exports in charge, so that you will have positive information as to the 

 particular machine which is best adapted to your needs, and when the 

 time for purchase comes you go to your machinery salesman in your own 

 town and say to him, "Mr. Machinery Man, I want such-and-such a make 

 of a machine," and after he finds out that there is no such a thing as a 

 "just as good" machine of the same kind in other makes, he orders it for 

 you and you get what you want. 



Here is what Dean Davenport at the Illinois Agricultural College snys 

 of the International Live Stock Exposition at Chicago, and that which ap- 

 plies to this is applicable to every other like show: 



"Not one, not even those responsible for its development has adequate 

 conception of the influence of the 'International' upon American live stock 

 interests. As a practical educator it cannot be surpassed; as a stimulus 

 to trade it has no equal; as a means of shaping policies and correcirng 

 ideals, its influence is supreme. A decade or two ago such a thing would 

 not have been possible in this country. It seems incredible now that a 

 company organized primarily for business, should see its way to expend so 

 much time, energy and money In the establishment of such an exposition. 

 That it will pay there is np doubt. The pay will come in a thousand ways. 

 The live stock interests will be more prosperous; the individual farmer 

 who lives by it will be more successful, and the multitude of interests tnai 

 depend upon live stock will thrive the better for it. 



