PROCEEDINGS STATE AGRICULTURAL CONVENTION 97 



Stage Setting Appropriate 



It was a great spectacle, especially worthy of being staged in a great 

 agricultural section, young in years of settlement, but far progressed in 

 animal and crop husbandry. Working as officials of the cattle show 

 were Ames men, young and old, some judging, others superintendents of 

 sections, others clerks, but all Ames men, and all Ames men in the spirit 

 of being devoted to the best there is in animal husbandry. 



The finale in the Shorthorn show was a great event. Groups and herds 

 were large and excellent, a fanfare to a great symphony of color and fit- 

 ting. As much could be said of the Hereford show, an event seen but 

 seldom, and probably not at any other place except in the American Royal 

 or the International. The Angus show, when it came to the female and 

 championship classes, developed into a regular Angus show. Truth is 

 that when the bull classes were put to a close analysis there was much 

 lacking to make the 1921 Angus show at Des Moines and the Iowa State 

 Fair one to be compared with former years. 



FARM BOYS' AND GIRLS' LEADER, DES MOINES, IOWA. 



Over 600 Iowa club boys and girls occupied prominent seats at the 1921 

 Iowa State Fair. They showed the grown folks on the farms as well as 

 the city visitors that they could produce blue ribbon stock, pick out the 

 blue ribbon winners, select the best corn, prove 'by demonstrations how to 

 cook, bake and sew, decorate the home and handle other phases of farm 

 and home life. 



Club boys 10 to 18 years of age and some of their sisters, showed 460 

 breeding and fat hogs, 185 fat steers and heifers, 950 prize chickens, 28 

 purebred heifers, 27 purebred dairy calves and a fine bunch of purebred 

 sheep, 28 boys' teams gave five demonstrations in animal husbandry and 

 agriculture. 



Housing the Boys and Girls 



Four hundred thirty-seven boys were housed in the boys' dormitory 

 with F. P. Reed, superintendent, assisted by Mr. Graham and Mr. Pipher, 

 Y. M. C. A. athletic men. The dormitory is equipped to take care of a 

 big bunch of boys. It has shower baths, toilet rooms, is well ventilated 

 and comfortable. The state fair management furnished cots and mat- 

 tresses and the boys bring their own bedding. 



Nearly 200 girls occupied the girls' dormitory as mentioned elsewhere. 



A state organization was affected and the following live club members 

 of Iowa were elected as officers: President, Wm. Cihak, Creston; vice- 

 president, Elmer Post, Moulton; secretary, Ivan Beck, Corning; and Har- 

 old Pace, Muscatine, treasurer. 



County committees will be named by club leaders and members in each 

 county to work with the farm bureau in organizing standard clubs in 

 every township and county. A committee on county and state fairs will 

 constitute one of these committees. All of these county committees will 

 be recommended by the folks at home and then approved by the state 

 officers. The boys were very enthusiastic about this new organization 

 which will give them official standing at home and through the state and 

 enable them to help build up club work in all of its departments. 



