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pacity of the grandstand and bleachers and emphasized the need 

 of additional grandstand room to accommodate the crowds at- 

 tending these performances. 



The night live stock and horse show in the Stock Pavilion en- 

 joyed a record-breaking attendance and the show was particu- 

 larly pleasing to the lover of harness and saddle horses and pure 

 bred live stock. 



The exhibits were the best balanced, the most comprehensive 

 and the most extensive in the history of the fair. The showing 

 in the various departments was made by 2,399 individual exhib- 

 itors who made 17,801 entries. This number of entries does not 

 take into consideration the exhibits entered in the machinery 

 department and various other educational exhibits for which no 

 premiums were offered. There was on exhibition by actual 

 count 5,537 head of live stock, divided as follows : 472 horses, 

 not including 160 head entered in the speed events, 1,013 head 

 of cattle, 3,197 swine, 784 sheep and 71 goats. There were also 

 on exhibition in the poultry department 2,100 birds and 190 

 rabbits. 



There is attached hereto and made a part of this report tabu- 

 lations covering the attendance by days, statistical data relative 

 to number of exhibitors, number head of live stock and other 

 exhibits at the fair compared with former years. 



In lieu of any attempt to review the various departments of 

 the fair there is presented herewith the press reports of three 

 leading live stock and agricultural papers having a large corp 

 of reporters in attendance each day of the fair. 



These reports are submitted with the thought that they will 

 give an unbiased report of the fair and with full knowledge that 

 they were prepared by expert writers who are authorities upon 

 the subjects they have covered. 



THE CLIMAX OF IOWA'S EXPOSITIONS. 



From The Breeders' Gazette, Chicago, Illinois. 



Iowa's commanding position as a dependable yearly producer of wealth 

 from the highest-priced agricultural real estate of a corresponding area in 

 America was re-emphasized in Des Moines last week by the most elaborate, 

 comprehensive and successful exposition of its kind in history. In its over- 

 whelming and distinctive agricultural appeal, composition and educational 

 results, the Iowa State Fair stands unique and monumental among similar 

 institutions. Iowa, the Croesus and Colossus of farming states, celebrated 

 the conclusion of the war by a victory fair of historic magnitude, seen and 



