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the like. Fifth — "Electrify, for it is safe and convenient;" a display 

 of electrical conveniences for the farm home, barn and outbuildings. 

 Sixth — "Use your head, it will bring results;'' a display of the educa- 

 tional work done at Ames. Seventh — "An ounce of prevention is worth 

 a pound of cure;" showing how to prevent disease epidemics or to 

 check them once they break out. Eighth — "Use good sires, for the 

 sire is half the herd;" a lesson in animal husbandry, by means of 

 photographs and figures. Ninth — "Discard the drones or they will 

 discard you;" an object lesson in the laying power of various hens. 

 Tenth — "Economize time by economizing labor;" a boost for the self- 

 feeding or cafeteria system of caring for hogs. Eleventh — "Let your 

 light shine for the good of others;" a demonstration of the work done 

 by the college of journalism at Ames. The state college exhibit was 

 unusually well arranged and attractive. 



Ranking second in the United States in value of beef cattle and 

 third in the value of dairy cattle, it is hardly to be wondered at that 

 the Iowa State Fair brings together such a remarkable cattle display 

 as is to be found at no other state fair. Over 1,300 head were at the 

 fair grounds in Des Moines this week, as fine a display as was ever 

 gathered together at one place. This being the case, it is regrettable 

 in the extreme that better accommodations are not provided. It is 

 only fair that the cattle_breeders of Iowa should have quarters more 

 in keeping with^ the'^sizer the value^and the attractiveness^of' their 

 exhibits. Therefore, the demand for a new brick cattle barn, with a 

 capacity of 1,200 head, to cost in the neighborhood of $35,000, should 

 be complied with by the next legislature. Such splendid cattle as were 

 brought to Des Moines this week should no longer be housed in the 

 old, unsanitary, unsightly and insufficient frame buildings which long 

 ago outlived their usefulness. The cattle exhibits at Des Moines this 

 week filled twenty-two barns, with two tents necessary for the over- 

 flow. Of these twenty-two barns three are of brick, the remainder 

 being old frame buildings, insufficiently ventilated and extremely un- 

 comfortable in hot weather. The old frame sheep barns, discarded 

 for the sheep when the fine new barn was built, have been turned 

 over to the cattlemen, who have been obliged to put up with whatever 

 accommodations might be vouchsafed to them. It is high time that 

 more attention should be paid to the needs and the demands of the 

 cattle exhibitors, whose display was second in interest to nothing 

 shown at Des Moines this week. A petition for a new cattle barn will 

 be presented to the legislature next winter. It should certainly be 

 granted. 



With the automobile registration in Iowa already past the 190,000 

 mark and with Iowa farmers spending well on toward $50,000 a day 

 for new cars, it is not to be wondered at that thousands upon thou- 

 sands of automobiles, the bulk of them belonging to farmers and 

 visitors from small towns, were in evidence at the fair every day or 

 that the automobile exhibit, on the first floor of the amphitheater, 

 should have attracted much interest. The early days of the fair found 

 every road leading into Des Moines literally crowded with automobile 

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