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and it will give advice showing how to get into the best markets. 

 Tliis work will be in charge of the State Marketing Commission. 

 This is one line of work at which the secretary, or manager, 

 of the fair should be busy the year round, and if he does the 

 right kind of work in showing residents in his county, perhaps 

 co-operating with the county agents, how to best market prod- 

 ucts, many thousands of dollars will be reaped in benefits by 

 residents of the county. When the ideal state of affairs is 

 reached, wherein products of a State are purchased in the State, 

 the surplus only being sold outside, a decided setback will be 

 encountered by the high cost of living. It should be one of the 

 duties of the county fair officers to help this project along. 



Keep Boys and Girls on Farms. 



The county fair should be a sort of civic and social center, 

 with branches reaching out to each rural school, the home of 

 the community fair. To-day the Young Men's Christian Asso- 

 ciation, the Young Women's Christian Association and other 

 fine organizations of this kind are unwittingly helping to lure 

 the farm boy and girl away from the farm. Fine edifices are 

 erected by these organizations in the big cities and thriving 

 towns. Dormitories, reading rooms, swimming pools, club 

 rooms and gymnasiums are beckoning to the farm boy and 

 girl. Is it not but natural that the farm boy and girl, used to 

 long hours and the fewer conveniences of the average rural 

 home, are anxious to get to the cities and towns where so many 

 fine things are provided for them? 



If the farm boy and girl are to be kept on the farm, some of 

 these latter-day conveniences must be brought to them. Club 

 rooms, swimming pools, athletic fields, reading rooms, better 

 home conveniences must be brought within easy reach. Let 

 your county fair grounds solve this problem. Build a club 

 house, with all the modern equipment, on your county fair 

 grounds, and let your fair secretary, or manager, and your 

 county agent see that your county club headquarters are made 

 so attractive that your farm boys and girls will forget the lure 

 of the city, with its enticing conveniences. 



This work will serve to take considerable of the effort and 

 time of your fair secretary, or manager, during the entire year. 



