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do is to get together and build the buildings, provide the houses for the 

 exhibitors and invite them to come and exhibit in them. 



I think that in all recent expositions there has been just cause for com- 

 plaint on the part of the dairy men that their interests have not been cared 

 for. I think half of that has been the fault of the exposition people and 

 the other half the fault of the dairy people. In the last three expositions 

 in which I have taken part the dairy people have demanded a separate 

 building for their products. This is the worst mistake they could make. 

 On the other hand, the exposition commissioners have demanded that the 

 dairy interests be placed on two floors. I never like to make comparisons, 

 but you can never tell what progress we are making unless we compare, 

 so I shall take the liberty of speaking of the area we have in comparison 

 with Chicago. 



In Chicago there was a building devoted to agriculture and agricultural 

 implements, and one building for dairy interests and implements. Both 

 of these buildings had galleries. All of the agricultural implements were 

 exhibited in galleries. In the St. Louis exposition there has been provided 

 a single building to hold all the products I have mentioned, there being 

 no galleries. It has a ground area of 1600x500 ft. That building will con- 

 tain four classes of exhibits, all of them agricultural. The first will be 

 the agricultural resources of all the countries of the world; the second 

 food products; the next will be dairy products and dairy implements, and 

 the fourth agricultural implements. All of these will be under one roof 

 and on one floor. This provision has been made because it is believed that 

 everyone who has had experience will agree that this will bring past a 

 single exhibit more people than any other arrangement which can be made. 

 This is what we have done for you, and after providing the housing, classi- 

 fication and facilities, the rest of it — to use a slightly vulgar but very appli- 

 cable expression — is up to you. You have just heard it stated that Iowa 

 is the greatest dairy state in the Union. Have you ever stopped for a 

 moment to think what that means. The youngest person in the audience 

 can remember when that was not so. and I have lived in Iowa for twenty- 

 five years and know something of the condition as they apply here. When 

 you think of the wonderful progress made in so short a period should it not 

 be taken as meaning that little has been done compared with what can be 

 done? Is there any better way to set before ourselves, before you as well 

 as before those who live elsewhere than in this state, what can be done 

 here? Before I was connected with this work I was in the educational 

 business. And I think expositions are as truly educators as anything can 

 be. I believe that when we lay out these plans and ask you to be guided 

 by them, because these exhibits are to be placed before people some of 

 whom will never have any broad educational advantages in the sense we 

 mean them. -This is what we do at St. Louis. We wish every phase to be 

 educational, so that there will be no question but what opportunity has 

 been given for study and that they will have studied. As to the exact thing 

 this one state should do and can do — it is this: In the first place — having 

 already, I presume, a considerable appropriation, I would suggest that this 

 organization ask, if it has not already asked, that there be a certain amount 



