9G TWENTY-SECOND ANNUAL YEAR BOOK— PART II 



"This is the best and largest beef cattle show we have ever assembled 

 at the Iowa State Fair," Dean C. F. Curtis, of Ames, said Sunday as he 

 surveyed the array of purebreds in the great cattle barn. 



One naturally expects to see a great swine show at Des Moines, and 

 one is never disappointed in this expectation. 



Record Trip From Springfield 



B. H. Heide, general manager of the International and president of the 

 Illinois State Fair board, was an early arrival Sunday, coming on from 

 Springfield, 111., where he gave the exhibitors invaluable aid in the hegira 

 from Springfield and the Illinois State Fair to Des Moines and the Iowa 

 State Fair. 



All records for transporting the live stock moved from Springfield to 

 Des Moines were shattered this season, all of the 42 cars being on the 

 grounds at Des Moines at 10 o'clock Sunday, after having been whirled 

 across the prairies of Illinois and Iowa on an actual running time of 47 

 miles an hour after the Rock Island Railway took the special train over 

 at Peoria, 111., Saturday afternoon. General Manager Jones, of the Rock 

 Island, gave his personal attention to the movement of the live stock train 

 after it was turned over to his line at Peoria, It was unloaded at Des 

 Moines in less than two hours after arrival by special switching crews. 

 In this way all the old-time delays between Illinois and Des Moines were 

 obviated and a happy group of exhibitors completed the second lap of 

 the Midwest fair circuit, virtually all of them having gone to Springfield 

 from Sedalia, Mo., and the Missouri State Fair. The success of the cir- 

 cuit routing assures a record-breaking live stock show at Lincoln, Neb., 

 next we^k and at Topeka, Kan., the week following and at other succeed- 

 ing state fairs on the Midwest circuit, formed last May in a meeting at 

 Kansas City, Mo. 



When the Iowa State Fair reached the group and herd classes in the 

 beef breed sections of the cattle show here ensued such an exhibition of 

 live stock as has never been seen at this, the largest state fair in the 

 corn belt, and noted for its live stock displays. 



Ranged on the outside of the arena of the live stock pavilion were 12 

 aged herds, or 60 head, of Shorthorn cattle, the aristocracy of the breed. 

 On the inside of the big oval were arrayed 10 aged herds of the Here- 

 fords, 50 head, the best of the Hereford show, and therefore premier 

 whitefaces. 



A Wonderful Spectacle 



In other portions of the big arena, now far too small for the demands 

 made on it, and at one time the largest live stock show pavilion in the 

 world, were being shown the Aberdeen Angus, Red Polled, Holstelns, 

 Brown Swiss and other classes, all large. It was a veritable kaleidoscope 

 of color, with not an inch of room to spare, so thickly was the ring popu- 

 lated with the breeds represented. 



The spectators' space in the center of the arena had been drawn in in 

 anticipation of the big cattle classes, and there was an island of human- 

 ity in the center of the arena, surrounded by a sea of cattle, while on the 

 shore' or the arena seats, people were packed for the final events in the 

 beef breed showings and for the dairy cattle shows that were opening. 



