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such as trotting, pacing, galloping, running, etc. The four-in-hand 
teams, two entries only, were four beautiful bays from Kentucky, 
and a team of stylish chestnuts from St. Louis, each handled by 
a “fifteenth amendment,” in livery, with great dexterity and skill. 
They attracted much attention, but seemed to me to be more orna¬ 
mental than useful, being a great waste of power for services ren¬ 
dered. The office of entry connected with the St. Louis fair is some¬ 
what diffierently conducted from ours, and I think it an improve¬ 
ment in many respects. Instead of taking the entries upon slips 
and copying into division and then into class-books, as has been our 
custom, they take the entry down at once into the department- 
book, one book only being required for each department, which has 
been previously numbered, each book numbering from one to as 
high as desired. The clerk taking the entry then calls the number, 
with the name of the animal or article entered, and another clerk 
makes out the entry-card accordingly. Another clerk, or at most 
two others, may copy these entries upon large sheets, for the use 
of the different committees, giving the number and article only. 
The advantages are: 
1st. Less clerks, and hence, less expense. 
2d. Less danger of errors, as the entries are certain to all be in 
the department-books. 
3d. The committees are not influenced for or against awarding a 
premium, as the owner is unknown except to the superintendent 
of the department who has the books in his possession. 
At this St. Louis Fair were brought together on the great day— 
Thursday—a hundred thousand people, to witness the improved 
stock, products of the farm and dairy, fruits and flowers, manufac¬ 
tured products, mechanical arts, the beautiful and useful in art and 
nature, and I was impressed as never before, as I viewed that vast 
concourse of people, of the educational and social advantages to be 
derived from these annual gatherings of the people. The various 
departments of this great exhibition showed in miniature to this 
assemblage, the leading industries and work of the world, and I 
could but think that the person who fails to put on exhibition a 
meritorious animal or article at these annual gatherings, fails to se¬ 
cure the best advertising agency of the times. 
Expositions in many of our large cities are becoming popular, 
and deservedly so, and it has occurred to me that possibly our 
