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along by their proud owners. Every boy and girl who could find an 

 animal to lead or a flag or a sign to carry was there. 



The reason for the big attendance was disclosed early In the day when 

 the gentleman who was recruiting for the parade stopped a group of boys 

 who obviously had their own notions as to what constituted a good time. 



"You'll show all those people what good work you have been doing," 

 he said seductively. "It won't take long, and afterward you can get seats 

 in the grandstand to watch the rest of the program." 



Doubt still rested like a cloud on a good many youthful countenances. 

 Lemonade stands, roller coasters and shows of many kinds still held a 

 siren attraction. So the recruiting gentleman played his master stroke. 



"I'd be awfully sorry not to get you boys in that movie," he remarked 

 sadly. "You see, they're going to take pictures of the parade, and I should 

 certainly hate to have you left out. 



The boys instantly decided that they would hate it, too. So when the 

 pageant lined up for the grand parade it held in its ranks not only the 

 emblems of the work of the boys and girls, not only beeves and pigs and 

 canning outfits, and other concrete evidences of accomplishment, but also 

 in person some hundreds of the representatives of the state's greatest re- 

 source and its greatest hope. 



The attitude of the average boy to the club work was well typified by 

 one lad who was trying to lead a steer out of one of the barns. The steer 

 weighed about twelve hundred and was rather restless. The boy weighed 

 around sixty pounds. So every time the steer tossed his head the boy was 

 jerked from side to side in a very breathless fashion. 



"Next year," said the boy between gasps, "I'm going to be bigger and I 

 won't be dragged around like this. 



He set his heels in the ground and pulled. "Come on, your ornery crit- 

 ter!" he said reproachfully to the calf, and added to the spectator: "No, 

 that won't do any good either. I'll be bigger myself next year but then 

 I'm going to have a lots bigger calf." 



With the parade of all the live stock shown at the fair, on the track 

 in front of the amphitheater, the stock show of the Iowa State Fair came 

 to a glorious finish. Fair officials estimated the value of the live stock 

 in the parade this year as over two million dollars, as compared with one 

 million for the previous year. These figures give a fair idea of the class 

 of the stock on exhibition at the Iowa classic. Certain it is that state 

 fair goers have never seen a better stock show than was witnessed dur- 

 ing the past week. In one or two divisions only the show did not sur- 

 pass former years, but even in these instances the show this year was 

 at least as good as has ever been held here. 



It was largely an Iowa show throughout. This was especially true in 

 the swine division, where the majority of the exhibitors were Iowa 

 breeders. There were enough good herds from without the state to en- 

 hance competition and to increase the honors due the prize winners. 

 The Iowa special and amateur classes increased the incentive for the 

 Iowa breeders, and no doubt brought out many exhibitors who otherwise 

 would have missed the good fellowship and experience that can be 

 gained in no other way than by taking out a show herd. Many Iowa 



