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made at the rate of 300 daily, were Kold to fair visitors. Besides the 

 manufacturing work, the 700 patients do the work on three farms, 

 which comprise 1,500 acres. Thousands of brooms are made annually, 

 and the plant includes a sweeping compound industry. Warden 



Sanders has charge of the institution, and J. F. Slifsgard looked after 

 the exhibit. 



Boys at the Eldora Industrial School are getting training which is 

 modeling them into men, and when they leave they are qualified to 

 make their way in the world at some useful trade. The exhibit in 

 charge of W. L. Kuser, superintendent, included clothing, printing, 

 steel tools, harness, shoes and signc, as well as other products made 

 by those who have found their way to the school as the result of un- 

 fortunate circumstances. The farm embraces about 840 acres, and 

 there are 420 pupils. 



BEEF CATTLE. 



Iowa is a pace-maker in the cattle industry. As a feeding ground, 

 her place is well known, and no state is fostering the breeding of pure- 

 bred cattle more carefully nor more keenly than is Iowa, and the 

 sterling class of men which go to make up the Iowa beef-breeding 

 fraternity. Traveling right beside the Iowa contingent, and working 

 harmoniously with them, is the great group of breeders from the 

 other corn belt states, and all together these forces are moving 

 mightily toward the common end of producing more and better beef 

 cattle, that ultimately the corn belt will be maintaining an agricul- 

 ture of guaranteed permanence because founded solidly upon the 

 basic rock of live stock farming. 



As one who has been constantly in the attendance at the Iowa State 

 Fair looks back in mental review of the great show, his mind is beg- 

 gared for adequate terms in which to suggest even the high lights of 

 so superb an exhibit. The wealth of numbers, the sterling class qual- 

 ity of the entire exhibit, the well-rounded character of the display, all 

 were beyond the expectations of the most hopeful. The numbers were 

 far in excess of those of any previous show. In nearly all the breeds, 

 classes of small numbers were the exception, while the average num- 

 ber of animals in the classes of practically all the breeds was from 

 ten to fifteen entries actually shown. Never has there been a cattle 

 show within the borders of the state which presented the same high 

 class character of stuff shown throughout. Adherents of the various 

 breeds were almost a unit in the declaration that their individual 

 breeds had never before been so well represented, while they were 

 equally positive that the all-around character of the show was not 

 outdone by the exhibit of any particular breed. This latter feature, 

 that of the uniform excellence, can scarcely be over-emphasized. With 

 many of the classes showing over twenty head, it would have been 

 almost as difficult a task to declare a real tail-ender as it was for 

 the judge to say with certainty that -absolutely the best animal in 

 the class had been awarded the blue ribbon. Years ago, the Iowa State 

 Fair had the reputation of being a show great in numbers of live 



