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exhibits outrival and outshine in arrangement and quality any similar ex- 

 hibition in the world. It searches out man's most perfect thought and 

 work. As the late President McKinley once said, "Fairs and expositions 

 are time-keepers of the world's events, marking progress in agricultural 

 and industrial development from 3'ear to year and from time to time." 



There is no longer any question that a state fair is the mirror of the 

 state's prosperity and growth ; we read it in the educational journals, the 



Custer County's 1913 Exhibit at Montana State Fair, Winning First Prize on Best Exhibit 



of Vegetables and Root Crops. 



magazines and the daily papers. We hear of it at conventions, on railway 

 trains and in street cars — and we find all these agencies 

 It Shows actively engaged in promoting agricultural education. 

 the State's As the state fair helps the state, so the county fair helps 



Greatness as the county. Practically every county in Montana has its 

 in a Mirror, annual county fair but on a smaller scale; nevertheless the 

 functions are the same, all tending towards a rapid and sincere 

 development of the state, and to bring out the possibilites of the soil. 



— Bring the tiny tots out to Montana and give them a chance to grow. 



