| Show Progress of Agriculture Greatly Aided by Fairs and Their Exhibits KNAPP Alabama Polytechnic Institute BRADFORD D By fly DR MRS and expositions have hare become important in our educational IHS f. systems They have hate a valuable place in every step in agricultural industrial commercial and educational advancement To them we come to compare notes to learn learnt what our neighbors far tar and near may Lc Le doing in their work From them we learn the new things the ed improved ways the very existence of ot things almost unknown I have hare seen een many a farmer come to the fair tair with an exhibit which he be believed t to be bethe bethe the tire w very ry best to be found Cound anywhere only to discover that some other farmer has a better one The thousands who came with no exhibit got the thrill of oC s seeing eing what hat can be Two hundred years ago in England fairs Cairs w were re ju just t general sales day when farmers gathered to sell their products Fairs were markets Then some one began offering a prize and so grew our modern fairs Cain Agriculture has made more progress since fairs fain and exhibits became a part of oC our system than in iD all history before that time As a n national policy industry labor and banks have hv laws which prevent or tend to prevent disaster What we e need is a na national national national policy toward agriculture Three times in a little more than a hundred years we have hae seen feen this thing happen to agriculture Some da day dav we will acquire aquire the wi wisdom dom to i olve solve the problems and prevent the misery miser accompanying such a dia disaster on these oC occasions |
