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tion of every individual and organization engaged in agri- 

 cultural or allied Mork. 



As to the county fair, I say that if you neglect to enlist the 

 county agent in your fair you have committed a blunder which 

 should make necessary a new set of officers. The county agent 

 is the county agricultural leader, and if he is properly enlisted 

 he can greatly assist to interest all the rural people in the 

 county in the fair". Please do not get the impression that all 

 of the various agencies I have mentioned shall be in control of 

 the fair. Officers of the fair, under supervision of the State 

 Department of Agriculture, should be in absolute control. Seek • 

 the advice and active co-operation of the other agencies, using 

 advice when it is good and disregarding it when it is not good. 



Select Manager with Care. 



With reference to officers in charge of the fair itself, select 

 the best man to be found who shall practically manage the 

 fair, under the supervision of a board of directors. When you 

 select this man choose a conscientious live wire, — the most 

 alert, active, keen-minded diplomat you can find, and be sure 

 that he is a hard worker, has good business judgment and is 

 resourceful. When you find the right man, give him plenty of 

 authority, pay him well, and, instead of hindering him, help 

 him run things. Some fairs make the mistake of choosing as 

 their fair officers men and women who are unfitted for fair 

 work. Others make the fair a sort of haven for failures in other 

 walks of life. A business enterprise of the magnitude of most 

 any fair in a live county would first engage a good man as 

 manager. Why ordinary business sense should not be followed 

 in count V, State and national work is more than I can 

 fathom. 



In the management of the fair probably the first impulse will 

 be to place in charge a farmer, or one well versed in agriculture. 

 This is a good policy, providing the man is a good fair man, or 

 will soon acquire efficiency in this direction. Do not assume 

 that because a man is a farmer he should make a good manager 

 of a fair. Training for agriculture does not of itself make an 

 expert fair man, any more than training for any other walk of 

 life makes a fair man. The point is, fair management is a 



