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IMPROVEMENT CLASS. 



score represents 1919 gain. 



Babies Prom Cities and Towns Less Than Ten Thousand. 



Boy Twenty-four Months and Under Thirty-six Months — First, Meyer 

 Pennington, 1.3, Dr. O. J. Pennington, Dexter, Iowa; second, John Penning- 

 ton, 1.2, Dr. O. J. Pennington, Dexter, Iowa; third, Durwood J. Smith, 0.3, 

 Harry P. Smith, Newton, Iowa. 



Girl Twenty-four Months and Under Thirty-six Months — First, Louise 

 Kinnick, 3.4, F. B. Kinnick, Adel, Iowa. 



Babies From Cities Over Ten Thousand. 



Boy Twenty-four Months and Under Thirty-six Months — First. Kennetli 

 Rank, 3.4, M. H. Rank, Des Moines, Iowa. 



Girl Twenty-four Months and Under Thirty-six Montlis — First. Marguerite 

 Sherman, 5.5, F. Roy Sherman, Des Moines, Iowa; second, Dorothy "Wieden- 

 man, 1.9, H. T. Wiedenman, Des Moines, Iowa; third, Dorothy Rowe, 1.0, 

 George L. Rowe, Des Moines, Iowa; fourth, Dorothy Dolan, 0.9, Dow D. 

 Dolan, Des Moines, Iowa. 



CHAMPIONSHIPS. 



Boy Showing Greatest Improvement Over Last Year — Kenneth Rank, 3.4. 

 M. H. Rank, Des Moines', Iowa. 



Girl Showing Greatest Improvement Over Last Year — Marguerite Slier- 

 man, 5.5, F. Roy Sherman, Des Moines, Iowa. 



IOWA STATE FAIR BEATS ALL RECORDS 



From Farmer and Breeder, Sioux City, loxoa. 



It will be no surprise to our readers to learn by the printed word (unless 

 they first made the discovery by personal acquaintance) that the Iowa 

 State Fair which was held at Des Moines, August 20th to 29th, inclusive, 

 far outstripped any previous session. During the war the fair strove to 

 keep alive that spirit of progressiveness that characterizes the Middle 

 West. In those years attendance was lessened and exhibits fell off. owing 

 to the fact that the entire nation was keyed up to the highest pitch of 

 production. With production foremost in the public mind, it was but nat- 

 ural that all the great agricultural fairs and expositions should register 

 below normal. That they made as good a showing as they did is to their 

 credit. 



But since the last fair season history has recorded some tremendous 

 pages. Chief of these is the end of the war with victory for the cause of 

 justice and peace. The big rural sTiows this year are called "Victory" 

 Fairs in commemoration of the great event. And well may they thus mark 

 this new step in the march of progress and of civilization. For it was 

 "food that won the war," and the farmers of this land, who rallied to the 

 call for increased production, helped to win the battle that our brave boys 

 fought in the trenches of Flanders and of France. 



The Iowa State Fair is always a victory fair — itself a record of new 

 achievements in the S'truggles for success against all manner of odds. In 

 the center of the greatest agricultural region on the globe, in a state 

 whose arable land is 95 per cent of its total area, with agriculture the 

 dominant note throughout the length and breadth of the Hawkeye state, 

 there is perhaps no other exposition of its kind that equals and surely none 

 that excels what is year by year "the carnival of the land of plenty." 



But this year they held at Des Moines the bigges't and best fair ever 



