RESPONSIBILITY OF GOVERNMENT 



try life. These properties belong to the 

 fairs. It is apparent that here is also an 

 enormous property and opportunity that 

 might be made of direct and continuing 

 use to the people of the communities. It 

 would be possible in many cases to grow 

 experimental crops on certain parts of the 

 fair grounds, to be standing in exhibition 

 when the fair meets; or if not that, cer- 

 tainly the entire grounds could contribute 

 to the public good fifty weeks in the year if 

 they were carefully laid out with trees and 

 shrubs and kept open as exhibition parks. 

 All of them could in this way become test 

 grounds and recreation grounds. They 

 should be tied up to the idea of public bet- 

 terment. And the fair itself should be so 

 directed as to be an educational enter- 

 prise : there is no other reason for holding 

 a fair. No country-life institutions are so 

 expensive for the length of time that they 

 are in service for the public as the fairs. 

 We may look for the time when the fairs 

 themselves will be more continuous, with 

 educational exhibitions given at intervals 

 throughout the year when their effect will 

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