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In the new Dairy Building instruction was given constantly 

 throughout the week in a large amphitheatre where butter- 

 making demonstrations were carried on morning and afternoon. 

 It is proposed to allow exhibitors to use the amphitheatre at 

 hours to be announced, so that they may give instructive talks 

 upon their machinery and supplies. This is a development of 

 fair work along educational lines which is not known to have 

 been definitely provided for elsewhere. 



In the Horticultural Building visitors found thousands of 

 specimens of fruits from this state and other states, so arranged' 

 and classified as to be of the greatest value to small and large fruit 

 growers. 



The farm machinery exhibit, including an enormous collection 

 which crowded the capacity of the grounds, was an interesting 

 feature of the fair and proved to be highly valuable to many 

 farmers who had postponed making purchases until they could see 

 for themselves the various kinds of machines in which they were 

 interested. Exhibitors retported many sales. 



In the live stock exhibit were a collection of f ai-m, breeding and 

 draft horses said to have been the best ever seen east of Chicago ; 

 hundreds of the finest specimens of dairy animals, with some 

 individuals from this state and other states having values in the 

 thousands of dollars ; exhibits of sheep, swine, and poultry which 

 taxed the accommodations. All these helped to establish a new 

 record not only in total numbers of several different breeds of ani- 

 mals and birds, but in respect to the educational value of these 

 exhibits. 



The new State Institutions Building, which has now been in 

 use two years, is serving to give the people of the state an idea 

 of the work of state departments and institutions such as many of 

 them have never before had. This building was crowded by ^^sitor3 

 aU the time. Liberal space was filled by exhibits from the 

 Dopartment of Health which showed charts, diagrams and objects 

 representing the spread of diseases and methods of control and 

 cure. The Prisons Department exhibited specimens of carpets, 

 furniture and other articles made in the state prisons, as well 

 as photographs of interiors and modern methods of care and dis- 

 cipline. Products of the farm and handiwork produced by the 



