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enclosure. Electric lights, city water, sewage disposal and toilet facilities 

 are provided. From 12,000 to 15,000 people used the camp this year. 

 Many of them spend their annual vacations in this fashion. County agri- 

 cultural agents and the farm bureau people used a part of the camping 

 field, and held open air meetings. 



No additions to the fair's plant have been made since last year. Nearly 

 all the live stock buildings have been outgrown by the expansion of the 

 exhibits, and the grand stand, seating 12,500 persons, is wholly inadequate 

 to meet the public's demands. There were large overflows of hogs and 

 cattle, and the sheep barn was considerably enlarged in pen capacity by 

 a rearrangement of the partitions. A tent 90 by 200 feet was pitched to 

 roof the entries shown by members of the boys and girls' pig clubs. From 

 600 to 700 additional hog pens could have been used this year. A heavy 

 rain on Tuesday made a muddy mess of the ground under the tent. 



Iowa can well afford to provide a first class, permanent building for 

 its boys and girls who show pigs, "baby" beeves, lambs and colts at its 

 state fair. Exhibits made by these future farmers and future farmers' 

 wives should be properly taken care of. We are assured that Iowa has 

 more boys and girls' pig, "baby" beef, lamb, colt and poultry clubs, more 

 active clubs, and more members of these clubs than any other state, and 

 that although the fair has done much to reward and encourage them it 

 should do much more, especially with a view to housing their exhibits. 

 This year these young folk showed 340 "baby" beeves, 408 pigs, 50 lambs, 

 and 600 head of poultry. They would have exhibited 2,000 birds had 

 space been available in the poultry building. They competed for a grand 

 total of $9,000 in prizes. 



Secretary A. R. Corey and his associates and staff and Iowa farmers 

 are to be congratulated on having produced a farmers' fair abundantly 

 worthy of Iowa. 



FARM BOYS AND GIRLS LEADER 



According to Mr. Ivan L. Hobson of the United States Department of 

 Agriculture, the boys and girls' club exhibits, demonstrations and judg- 

 ing features at the Iowa State Fair surpassed anything he had seen at 

 other state fairs up to August 26th. Mr. Hobson was more than gratified 

 at the number as well as of the quality of stock but he said: "The ex- 

 hibits of boys and girls tops everything here at the fair." 



Five hundred and sixty boys and their leaders registered at the boys' 

 dormitory. The whole number attending ran over 600. Two hundred 

 girls and their leaders registered at the girls' dormitory and they were 

 a prize-winning lot. 



Among the demonstration teams were 69 in girls' club projects, 30 in 

 poultry, 23 in live stock and corn judging, and a good bunch of boys' 

 live stock demonstration teams. The boys' demonstration work included 

 pig, beef, corn, sheep, garden, spraying, poultry, etc. 



