The Division of State Fair 



NEWTON BRIGHT, Chairman, State Board of Agriculture 

 TATE BIRD, Secretary, Kentucky State Fair 



Pursuant to Chapter 119C, Acts of 1906, page 385: 



"An annual State Fair for the exhibition of agricultural, 

 mechanical, horticultural, dairy, forestry, live stock, mineral and 

 all other industrial interests of the State be, and the same is 

 hereby created, to be known as the Kentucky State Fair." 



From the passage of that Act it has been the purpose of the State 

 Board of Agriculture in conjunction with each Commissioner of Agri- 

 culture, who by virtue of his office is Chairman of said Board, to 

 stimulate interest and to enlarge the activities of each of the divisions 

 enumerated in that Act. Kentucky has been slow to visualize the 

 real worth of such an institution to the growth and prosperity of the 

 State, but due to the untiring zeal of devoted and conscientious mem- 

 bers of the Board and other enthusiastic Kentuckians, positive and 

 advanced progress has been made and today the institution and its 

 purposes are more deeply rooted in the minds of Kentuckians than 

 ever before. 



During the past two years it has been the object of the manage- 

 ment to constantly increase the educational and recreational value of 

 the Fair, and at the same time to conduct it along the best and most 

 modern business lines. An effort has been made, on the part of the 

 management, to encourage Industrial and Manufacturing enterprises 

 to patronize the Fair by making exhibits in the Agricultural, Mer- 

 chants' and Manufacturers' Building, whereby the people may become 

 better acquainted with the State's resources. A similar effort has 

 been exerted with good results to encourage the Woman's Agencies 

 and Departments of State to take space in the building that their 

 activities may become better known. Among those that are now co- 

 operating may be mentioned: Kentucky Highway Department, State 

 Labor Department, State Park Commission, Kentucky Geological Sur- 

 vey, Mammoth Cave National Park, Kentucky Forest Service — which 

 has just completed a new $8,000.00 building from logs cut from the 

 Kentucky State Forest Preserve. These exhibitions in conjunction 

 with our manufactural exhibits is giving the State an advertisement 

 really worth while and will result in a marked improvement in its 

 general development. 



One of the factors which has contributed to the Fair's progress 

 has been the hearty co-operation given by the Luncheon Clubs, Board 

 of Trade and individual (business men of the City of Louisville. The 

 city and rural press has been liberal in its support of the Fair, as have 

 the radio stations of Louisville. 



