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Another interesting feature of the work is the judging contest where 

 thirty-one different county champion teams competed in judging live stocl<; 

 and corn in 1921. 



At i:he Mississippi Valley Fair at Davenport every boy and girl who had 

 been in the calf or pig club and exhibited his calf or pig was 

 housed and fed at the expense of the fair association. At the close of the 

 contest 16,845 pounds of beef were sold at auction at an average price of 

 $12.65 per cwt. These calves were bought by different meat markets from 

 nine different towns in Scott county. 



The Interstate Fair at Sioux City is featuring both club exhibits and 

 demonstrations. They program a club contest in both exhibits and demon- 

 strations, paying the expense of two demonstration teams from each of 

 the twelve mid-western states. These teams are the guests of the Inter- 

 state Fair during the week. 



One hundred and seventy-eight purebred swine were exhibited at the 

 Rockwell City Fair by the boys and girls in the pig club work. A judging 

 contest was held where the prize awarded was a pure-bred gilt. Over fifty 

 gilts were distributed, one of the conditions of the award being that the 

 club member is to raise a litter of purebred pigs and to exhibit them at 

 the fair in 1922. 



The Adams County Fair offered special premiums to teams staging 

 poultry demonstrations. Many county and district fairs pay the expenses 

 of the champion team to the State Fair or to the Annual Short Course at 

 Ames. 



One of the greatest educational features of any fair for the improve- 

 ment of live stock and farm practices is in giving opportunity to the boys 

 and girls to display the finished products from their club work, where 

 under guidance they have used their own initiative and followed the most 

 approved practices in how "To Make the Best Better." 



I was at the deliberations of a club meeting down in Adams county this 

 last summer where there were nine boys out of eleven in the club meeting 

 in the afternoon, each one having ridden a pony in to that meeting. The 

 president was presiding and I suddenly got an inspiration to talk about 

 something that was not on the program. Just a farm boy, who never at- 

 tended high school, was presiding, and when I had finished about the first 

 sentence I turned and I saw he wanted to say something, and he said, 

 "Now, Mr. Reed, if you will just wait, after this business session is over 

 we shall be glad to hear what you have to say." I don't believe the chair- 

 man here could courteously call a man to order any more than that boy 

 sixteen years old had who had never been anywhere else but country 

 school. In talking with his mother afterwards she said at one meeting 

 when there were two or three matters to present a man had about killed 

 the business session by talking too much and she said "he and I had a 

 conversation over what he ought to do, and he had outlined the procedure 

 which he took to call me to order, and believe me I was good thereafter. 

 The social side it seems to me is one side we want to emphasize from the 

 standpoint of the club. 



