market, and how to get in touch with the best markets; how 

 to build and furnish model schools; brings together for his in- 

 spection and purchase all that is known to the farm machinery 

 world and the motor world; and how to obtain more than he 

 now receives of money that ultimate consumers pay for prod- 

 ucts he produces. 



The up-to-date fair, while basically organized and operated 

 for the farmer, does not forget town and city people, and for 

 them adds a vaiied array of educational and inspirational fea- 

 tures. Town and city residents make up a large majority of 

 consumers of products of the agriculturist. It is one of the 

 missions of the fair to bring closer producer and ultimate con- 

 sumer, for when they become commercially acquainted many 

 evils bitterly complained of gradually will fade. The up-to- 

 date fair is not afraid of activity and expenditure of effort and 

 money for public good, and it is its duty to accept every line 

 of work that will bring results. 



Object-lesson an Effective Educator. 



During the past few years no institution has made such 

 decided steps toward increased results as an educator. The 

 fair is no longer satisfied to dominate the large community, but 

 it is entering remote sections of every State, throwing the sun- 

 light of its good influences everywhere. Every progressive 

 State has its State fair or exposition; some States more than 

 one in this class. Districts of States have their fairs, where 

 several counties compete with each other. Every live county 

 either has a fair or is preparing to have one. 



During the past five years the community fair has taken a 

 fixed place in the ranks of fairs, and it is multiplying at a rapid 

 rate, until the day seems not far distant when every rural 

 schoolhouse will be a community fair center as well as a com- 

 mon school. The fair has found its place in the social structure, 

 and every year, through improved methods, it is making that 

 place more secure. With due respect for other forms of educa- 

 tion, none is doing more effective work than the fair, for the 

 reason that no method of education is as effective as the object- 

 lesson. Excepting the common school, few forms of education 

 so nearly reach all the people. The fair not only reaches all 



