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And quite aside from the matter of developing standards, awards 

 received at the State Fair greatly enhance the value of the fruit and 

 increase the prestige of the grower. A grower with a nice collection 

 of blue ribbons to his credit never experiences any difficulty in dis- 

 posing of his fruit crop at the highest market prices. The advertising 

 that he receives as a direct result of exhibiting at the State Fair, even 

 though he may not win a large number of premiums, is always effective 

 and is worth dollars and cents to any exhibitor. He is catalogued as 

 a ''progressive grower" merely by reason of the fact that he exhibits 

 at the State Fair. 



And quite aside from such individual considerations as already 

 mentioned, there is the very important matter of helping to promote 

 the fruit industry as a whole to be considered. The man who does not 

 have sufficient vision to see beyond his own limited individual sphere 

 is a clog in the wheel of progress. But the fellow who embraces an 

 entire community, county or state in the scope of his vision and does 

 his utmost to aid in the development and general betterment of that 

 community or state — he is an empire builder and a true promoter of 

 progress. And that's the class in which the exhibitors at the Montana 

 State Fair are listed. They are aiding in the education of their fellow 

 workers in various lines of industry — their 's is a service to Progress 

 and Humanity. 



