166 TWENTY-SECOND ANNUAL YEAR BOOK— PART III 



You as members of the Fair Managers of the state are specially inter- 

 ested in the second feature, the demonstration feature. One of the things 

 to emphasize is that the boy demonstrate not only in his own community 

 but in the county fair the work he has done. If live stock work exhibit 

 live stock, if corn, corn. If girl's work, if garments, exhibit garments, 

 canning, food, whatever it may be. Get them to compete for prizes. I 

 have been convinced the last two or three years it is not necessarily the 

 amount of the prizes given to get them to compete. As an illustration of 

 that three years ago at Sioux City, I think three, possibly four, a boy had 

 won $25.00, won first in the baby beef exhibit. He had won $15 in the open 

 class, making $40, and sold the calf at auction. I think the calf brought 

 twenty-three and a half cents a pound, that is when they were getting 

 good prices. The next morning after that sale as he went down to the 

 stock yards and turned over that calf to the packing firm that purchased 

 it, he came back carrying the halter up to the exchange building where 

 he had received his money for the purchase of the calf, and made this 

 significant remark; going along with his head down, I presume he had 

 been thinking of the time when he got home. He said, "You know I would 

 rather have a ribbon that I won that first prize than the whole $40 I got." 

 In other words the fair hadn't provided a ribbon for that boy to take home 

 with him. The significant thing was one of our club leaders at that time 

 believed in big prizes. Then this boy said, "Do you know, when I get 

 home I will have picked up two hundred and some dollars for that calf, 

 and I will have that premium money, but that won't stand out and tell 

 the boys in our community that I actually won first place down there at 

 the fair." In other words a ten dollar bill just looks like any oth^r ten 

 dollar bill, but a show ribbon stood for the thing he had in mind as show- 

 ing these boys he really had achieved something. 



Mr. E. N. Hopkins: I want to announce to the Secretaries here, that 

 ninety-two of these Iowa champions, boys and girls, went to Chicago and 

 made up a delegaton of 550 champions from twenty-six states and did some 

 fine demonstration work in Chicago. It was a wonderful trip and many 

 of your associations paid the expenses of these winners from some of the 

 counties. I merely want to suggest that you give the boys' and girls' club 

 work at the various fairs a chance and they will help you out, as many 

 of you know. 



President Hoffman: This discussion will 1)e led by Mr. 

 Andrew Ste\vart, President of the Rockwell City Fair. 



Andrew Stewart: Our Secretary, Mr. Bacon, has asked me to explain 

 the plan of conducting what he has kindly termed a successful pig club. 



In the spring of 1920 the fair board decided it would like to put on a 

 pure-bred gilt club similar to the Blackhawk County plan, provided it 

 could raise the money to buy the gilts. 



The Rockwell City Fair was organized in 1905 with little funds, and 

 has been like the Irishman with his twins on his knees when asked wliat 

 he was doing, replied, "Shure, I'm holding me own." 



