IGG WlSCOl^SII^ STATE AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY, 
they must be so conducted that the public will have confidence in 
their pledges; and with a reasonable amount of common sense in its 
officers and judges, by avoiding all possible errors, educating the 
masses to a higher standpoint of morality, giving such’trials as shall 
bring out the improvements in machinery, the greatest yield of 
grains, the finest fruits, the most improved stock, and that stock so 
adapted to the wants of the community that when a man is sent for 
the doctor he will not have to leave his horse and take it on foot in 
order to gain time, or to so improve the breed of cows that one 
from the common herd will have to be taken to raise the blooded 
calf; showing how we may avoid the errors of the past, and to this 
end a knowledge of our failures may give the key to future success; 
the best method of improvement of our worn out lands, the adapta¬ 
tion of fruits and grain to certain soils, and I believe by appropri¬ 
ate awards we may aid in relieving our city schools of that red 
tape and military precision which so hinders our educational inter¬ 
ests. Anything that shall tend to increase our prosperity as a peo¬ 
ple, develop the great resources of our state, improve our lands, 
beautify our homes, ameliorate our climate and beautify our farms 
by the planting of evergreen wind-breaks, give scientific research 
a greater impetus, stimulate inventive genius, bring to light new 
fruits which shall come nearer perfection than any we now have, 
increase the home product of those fruits which shall, by their 
free use, do more to protect us and our little ones from disease than 
all the pills in our land; the dissemination of that knowledge that 
will aid us in thwarting our insect enemies; in fact, anything 
that will hasten the good time coming, when success shall be writ¬ 
ten upon our own banner, and prosperity attend on our people, 
then shall fairs be divested of more of the humbug, and prove a 
greater success. 
President Stilson thought some things in the paper just read too 
true. With all the care possible, sometimes tricky, unscrupulous 
men would get appointed judges, but the aim of the state society 
had always been to get honest, capable judges, and those who felt 
it a duty to serve. Local fairs suffered more than the State Fair 
from incompetent, weak, selfish men to judge upon exhibits. 
In relation to blooded stock he believed in them. Had a good 
herd of Short Horns, and raised a calf from each cow annually. It 
