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Boys' Coen Club Dbpaetmbnt. 



There were over 100 entries in this department, from 

 boys in 23 counties in the State. The com was most ex- 

 cellent, and compared very favorably with the entries in 

 the Men's Department. Every boy who entered an ex- 

 hibit was required to have an expense account of his 

 crop, showing what it had cost him per bushel to produce 

 his com. A prize was given to the best judge of com, 

 and 48 boys handed in essays stating the order in which 

 they placed the exhibits they were given to judge, and 

 their reasons for so placing them. 



Department W, "The Girls' and Boys' Clubs De- 

 partment, ' ' should be made one of the largest at the State 

 Fair, and an entire building should be devoted to it. The 

 girls and boys should be encouraged in every way pos- 

 sible to enter exhibits and take an interest in their de- 

 partment. Work of this nature will do much to build up 

 the State Fair in the future. 



Geoffrey Mobgan, 

 State Agent, Farmers' Co-operative Demonstration 



Work, U. S. Department of Agriculture. 



THE WOMAN'S SHOP AT THE 1915 KENTUCKY 

 STATE FAIR. 



The Woman's Shop was a new department of the 

 Kentucky State Fair this year, 1915. The object of the 

 shop was to create a market for the work of Kentucky 

 women. Mr. J. W. Newman, Commissioner of Agricul- 

 ture, Labor and Statistics, had seen the Porto Rican 

 women at work on their beautiful drawn work, and he 

 knew that it had a large sale throughout the States. He 

 believed that the efforts of Kentucky women would be 

 widely recognized and paid for, if their work could only 

 be brought before the public in the proper way. The 

 most natural way and the best way seemed to be the 

 medium of the State Fair, where all home talent is dis- 

 played. 



Commissioner Newman invited the following women 

 to meet with him in Louis^'ille: Mrs. Helm Bruce, Mrs. 



