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THE aiARES. 



The mare classes on the average were much stronger than the 

 stallions. Considerable interest was evinced in the rating of the 

 yeld mares, the more rugged Wellington Sunbeam finally taking the 

 award from the nicely-turned, quality sort Pine Krest Primrose, heroine 

 of the 1913 futurity. The mares and foals were a strong-boned group 

 but maternal stresses forbade extra-class honors. The strongest show 

 outside of the futurity was found in the two-year-olds where two ex- 

 ceptionally clean-cut browns took first and second. A bay, less rotund, 

 claimed third for the McCay & Fowler stables. 



THE flLLY FUTURITY. 



The champion female of the show was uncovered in the yearling 

 class, an outstanding gray of scale and quality and possessed of a 

 stylish way of going that was quite captivating. Edgewood Princess 

 was second, a strong-boned bay of very deep rib, while the well-set, 

 strongly coupled Rampton Clara came third. The remaining mares 

 were somewhat smaller and less forward, but they were of a stamp 

 quite superior to the yearling males. In fact the mare show was at- 

 tractive in every particular. 



IOWA STATE FAIR BREAKS RECORDS. 



(The Iowa Homestead.) 



With ideal weather conditions, record-breaking attendance and 

 exhibits more varied and excellent than ever before, the 1916 Iowa 

 State Fair will pass into history as pre-eminent in the brilliant list 

 of sixty-two such annual exhibitions which the state has held. Never 

 was there a fair which, from start to finish, found all conditions so 

 auspicious or which brought a readier response from the people of 

 the state, who flocked to it in record-breaking number. When the 

 gates were closed on Tuesday night, with three full days of the fair 

 vemaining, the total attendance had reached 204,136 which was .51,758 

 in excess of the mark at the same time last year. With Wednesday's 

 attendance in the neighborhood of 45,000 and Thursday and Friday 

 still remaining, with good programs provided, there was every reason 

 to believe that fully 300,000 people would pass through the turnstiles 

 by the time the 1916 fair came to a brilliant conclusion Friday night. 

 While the attendance records were thus being shattered, the monetary 

 receipts were large in proportion. At the close of business Tuesday 

 night the total amount of money taken in was $142,513.34, which was 

 $38,390.23 more than the receipts up to the same time at the 1915 

 fair. The fact is that Iowa is enjoying a year of unparalleled pros- 

 perity and with crop prospects never better, the citizenry of Iowa re- 

 sponded to the invitation of the state fair management in numbers 

 and with enthusiasm never witnessed before. Confronting a harvest 

 of bumper crops, with corn vastly superior to what it was last year 

 and with hay and oats adding many millions to their annual field- 

 crop production, the farmers of Iowa were only too glad to "knock off 



