Show 1 i How Fain Fairs OrIto Originated Ud Fairs were originally meetings held for tor the purpose of exhibiting or telling tell sell ing InK goods In Europe they appear to tu have originated In the church teat festi vale vals One of ot the most mOlt noted of ot the English fairs was II that at Smithfield London Condon founded at the beginning of the Twelfth century The greatest fairs In to Germany GermanI are re those thole of Leipzig Frankfort and Brunswick In the United States the term Is applied to toa toa toa a variety of ot exhibitions The most moat common kind are ere the agricultural fairs originated by Elkanah Watson a merchant of ot Albany Alban N. N Y Mainly through bl bit big Influence the New York legislature appropriated In 18 1839 O 10 a year lear for six lx years learl for tor premiums premium on agricultural products and family manufactures manufacture Since then annual tate state fairs fain have become quite general feDeraL |