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interest thruout the year. As a result of these county fairs where com- 

 parisons are made, ideas exchanged, helpful suggestions received, the 

 visitor returns home inspired to better his production the coming year. 

 The place Iowa has made for herself as the result of these get-together 

 events is one of world-wide fame. Not long ago this report came back 

 from the International Live Stock Show at Chicago: 



IOWA BREEDERS MADE BIG HIT. 



Chicago, December 7th. Iowa live stock breeders are making a 

 decided hit at the International Live Stock Show here this week 

 and officers of the Greater Iowa Association who are in Chicago en- 

 deavoring to help Iowa exhibitors feel confident of taking home sev- 

 eral grand prizes. 



The Iowa spirit has taken hold of the live stock men gathered here, 

 especially the draft horse breeders. Prior to this year the individual 

 exhibitors were scattered all over the barns at the International 

 Live Stock Shows. There might be one Iowa exhibit in this barn, 

 and one in the next, and two in the barn beyond, and so on. But 

 this year the draft horse breeders of Iowa got together and leased an 

 entire barn and guaranteed to fill it with two hundred and fifty of 

 the best horses that ever set foot in Chicago or anywhere else. 



This move on the part of lowans has astounded the other ex- 

 hibitors up here — because no other state has ever thought of it. 

 The result is that visitors, especially those from South America and 

 abroad, are greatly impressed with the Iowa Show. The entire barn 

 is decorated in one color scheme and here and there about the barn 

 are great banners of purple silk, bordered in gold, and carrying in 

 gold letters the announcements of world's grand prizes won by Iowa 

 horses, corn and other agricultural products at the Panama-Pacific 

 International Exposition last year. 

 Where did this wonderful success start; to what can we attribute the 

 origin of this development? To none other than the county fair. "By 

 their fruits we shall know them" is a good motto for Iowa, and it is as 

 applicable now as it was two thousand years ago. This age considers 

 but one thing — results. We have succeeded in producing the results be- 

 cause we have learned how to manage and how to produce the best by 

 careful study and the subjects have been made inspiring by the gather- 

 ings held each summer or fall in the counties of our state. The branches 

 here open to inspection are varied. Ranging from Iowa's choicest and 

 most cherished production of babes with the suggestions to the young 

 mother who is appalled at the obstacles to be met in the success of her 

 undertaking in babyism, to the display of the tiniest ferret that accom- 

 panies its family to this exciting place. 



Worthy of mention is the enthusiasm aroused among the boys in 

 various juvenile departments. We all know that if a man does anything 

 worth while it is because he did something as a boy. Pamper a boy, 

 make him believe the world has no use for the things he can do and 

 he'll do nothing when he becomes a man. We prepare for success and so 



