Mexico weekly ledger., 1898-01-20
STATE FAIR A NECESSITY.
The State Board of Agriculture Has
Taken Steps Toward Its Es-
adjustment.

COLUMBIA, Mo-, Jan. 15.-The Mis-
souri, State Board of Agriculture has
taken steps looking towards the es-
tablishment of a state fair at some
suitable point in the state. The loca-
ton has not yet been determin ed on.
Mexico, Moberly, Sedalia and other
points will he bidders for the fair.
Secretary ]. R. Rippey, of the Board
of Agriculture, in his report to the
board, said:
Other states not so .favorably stu
ated as Missouri, and without prize
winning herds of live stock that offer
successful competition in the worlds
most notable events and with reve-
nues not SO abundant yet more OPP
pressive to their people than ours,
have found it profitable to maintain
institutions of this character, and
continued neglect in this state is to
handicap our breeders and depreciate
the value of our improved herds.
Without fear OF successful contradic-
ton, and supported by the evidence
afforded by every first-class exhibit
made in recent years, Missouri may
justly claim leadership in the breed
ing of improved live stock.
No state has better stock, better
conditions and environments for its
production or more intelligent or
progressive breeders. With the nee
essary action upon the part of the
Fortieth General Assembly in provid-
ing means for the support of a State
Fair our breeders may be depended up
on for an exhibition of live stock and
our farmers for a display of agricultural
products that will be creditable to our
state and profitable to our people.
They will bring together annually such
an exhibition as will evince their en-
ergy and progressiveness and will in
form not only our people but those OF
other states,o OF what We have and OF its
excellence and value; an exhibition
that will bear testimony to the fer
tility Of our soil, the versatility of our
agricultural production and unrivaled
possibilities of Missouri. The organ
lied breeders and the industrial asso-
Citations of the state assert that this
recognition of their interest is due
them by reason of the immense sums
brought to the state by their industry,
and by reason of their liberal contri.
buttons to the revenue fund without
corresponding returns.
"Your attention is called to this
matter that you may give it careful
consideration, and as an organization
representing all agricultural interests
of the state, take such action as YOU
may deem advisable and az would
seem to promise the best results"
After a thorough discussion of Sec
rotary Rippey's report, the following
resolution was unanimously adopted
by the Board of Agriculture:
Resolved, That it is the sense OF
this board that the Fortieth General
Assembly should take action neces-
sary to the establishment of a State
Fair.
At a meeting of the State Horse
Breeders Association, convened In
Lexington, Hon. @. F. CLARK of Next
CO, read q paper on the necessity of a
State Fair, which was followed by the
unanimous adoption of the following
resolution:
Resolved, That we, the horse
breeders of Missouri, and the indus
trial classes here assembled, heartily
indorse that part of Mr.. Ciark's paper
which demands the establishment OF q
State Fair, believing such an institu-
ton necessary to the full develop
ment of our industrial interests.