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tractive and valuable features not only of tlie State Fair 

 but will become a show place tbe year round of which. 

 Kentuckians will be proud. There is ample room on 

 the State Fair grounds for a forestry and mineral build- 

 ing, in which should be collected a permanent exhibit of 

 the State's natural resources. A manufacturers' build- 

 ing to exhibit permanently "Made in Kentucky" goods is 

 -the fifth project of the Chairman originally contem- 

 plated as a part of this State institution. "This dream 

 is ultimately bound to come true." Thr6e of the pro- 

 jects are already under headway, and the owners of min- 

 eral and forestry properties in Kentucky are seriously 

 contemplating an effort to erect a permanent exhibit on 

 the fair grounds. The manufacturers of the State will 

 finally see the great value the fifth undertaking will be 

 io them. It is our purpose in publishing the following 

 papers bearing upon the different departments of the 

 Kentucky State Fair, together with the financial state- 

 ment thereof, to show the magnitude of the work that is 

 already being handled at Louisville, and with the hope 

 that the people of Kentucky will come to realize more 

 and more the benefits of this work to the great 

 mass of the people. Good seeds have been planted and 

 it only requires careful nursing and guidance for the 

 State Fair of Kentucky to become a factor in the State's 

 development of importance second to no other State in- 

 stitution. The writer has spent three years as Secretary 

 of the fair and the last four years as its President. He 

 has fostered this institution from its infancy and re- 

 linquishes his connection therewith with regret, at the 

 same time commending it to his successor and the mem- 

 bers of the board as an institution fraught with great 

 possibilities, and trusting that they will take the same 

 deep interest in its welfare as he and his associates have 

 done in the past. 



(Signed) J. W. NEWMAN. 



