the people, but it keeps after them until it surely has them 

 interested. 



While larger fairs are the show places more generally before 

 the people, it is the smaller fair through which the greatest 

 good is accomplished. Smaller fairs are feeders for larger fairs, 

 but they perform a far more important function than that. 

 They build u]) their respective communities. They represent 

 the tendrils, so to speak, that reach to the very ends of the 

 world in the intensive training which fair work accomplishes. 



Include All Agricultural Agencies. 



The organization to operate the fair having been perfected, 

 we will say on the plan of annual and life memberships, the 

 plant having been located and decided on, it is necessary to 

 perfect thoroughly the plan of management before the first 

 classifications for premiums have been outlined. The organiza- 

 tion operating the fair will of course handle the affairs of the 

 organization, but the officials of the fair should have the advice 

 and co-operation of all agencies in the county and State asso- 

 ciated w^ith agricultural work. 



In the first place, each State should have supervision over all 

 of its fairs, big and little, whether they receive State aid or not. 

 This supervision is best exercised through a State Department 

 of Agriculture. This department should have direct charge of 

 the State fair, if operated by the State, and it should exercise 

 supervising influence over every other fair through rigid inspec- 

 tion. The State Department of Agriculture should have on its 

 staff men and women well versed in fair Avork, and the depart- 

 ment should at all times be ready to give advice to fair officials 

 during periods of preparations of fairs. The plan followed 

 in Wisconsin, and to some extent in other western States, is 

 for the Department of Agriculture to have entire charge of 

 the State fair, a board of one member from each congres- 

 sional district assisting in advisory capacity. The State fair is 

 a division of the Department of Agriculture. With the State 

 Department of Agriculture advising and supervising, next estab- 

 lish co-operation with colleges of agriculture, farmers' institutes, 

 county agents, breeding associations, agricultural associations 

 and farm boys' and girls' clubs — in fact, enlist the co-opera- 



