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good specialists along agricultural and horticultural lines. Today 

 the exhibit is large, as such displays are usually rated, and it is our 

 special object to exhibit not only such products as were early shown, 

 but to marshal in some manner in one impressive object lesson the 

 cumulative results of years of uninterrupted investigation of specific 

 problems. These exhibits, illustrating long period research, are best 

 shown by the Departments of Soils and of Agronomy. 



The space occupied by the Station Exhibit at the State Fair in 1909 

 was 96.5 X 73.5 feet. Along the walls, some of the exhibits, as in the 

 case of the Department of Forestry, rose to a height of 50 to 60 feet. 

 One of the table allotments was to the Department of Entomology 

 and was about 60 feet long. This bench space, together with that 

 across the ends of the table, gave us a table frontage of about 75 feet. 

 The accompanying illustration, Plate 21, shows the general effect of 

 the entomological exhibit. The enlarged bromide pictures seen in the 

 illustration extended to a height of 10 or 12 feet from the platform, 

 some spaces being left between the frames to enable the onlooker to 

 catch a glimpse of the exhibits on the opposite walls ; thus we thought 

 to safeguard against any one leaving the hall under the impression 

 that he had seen everything before he had seen one half of the com- 

 plete exhibit shown by the Station. The Station supervisors of the 

 exhibits usually demand a space equivalent to a tent not smaller 

 than 40 x 60 feet as a condition for installing one of the county dis- 

 plays. The only expense imposed on the County Fair Associations as 

 a condition for such installation is that they shall furnish sufficient 

 space in a building or waterproof tent; that they shall thoroughly 

 advertise it in advance of the fair; and that they shall defray all 

 expenses of drayage and furnish carpenters and mechanics, as needed, 

 to help put the exhibit in place ; and again workmen to assist in tear- 

 ing it down and packing it, at the conclusion of the fair. 



Though, for a time, we were in some doubt as to the economy of this 

 method of extension work, we have concluded that the results justify 

 the expense. Certain it is that the general public take more kindly 

 to this form of expenditure than to many others. The visual demon- 

 stration of results attained excite the interest and clinch the recollec- 

 tion in a way that can scarcely be attained by any other method of 

 instruction. Many farmers now go to the State Fair for the express 

 purpose of spending two or three days studying our exhibit and say 

 that, in educational value, an examination of it rivals, or exceeds, a 

 visit to the Station farm at Wooster. There is no other way by which 

 we can get a visual demonstration of our work and its results before 

 so many people in so short a time. The attendance at our State 



