170 TWENTY-THIRD ANNUAL YEAR BOOK— PART III. 



The reason they come in large numbers is they are easy to convey to 

 the fair and easy to take back. A great many of them are trucked in. 

 I believe that class will continue to be large and probably grow. The 

 membership in clubs is going to be much larger next year than it has ever 

 been before. The pig club class is going to present another problem in 

 accommodation at the state fair. We do hope this matter of the pig club 

 classes will be looked into early this year and something worked out that 

 will accommodate them in good shape. I think this applies to your own 

 local accommodations as well as to the Iowa State Fair. 



Of all things we don't want to do is to give these boys and girls the 

 wrong impression of exhibitions. If they have to come to make their ex- 

 hibits and meet with poor accommodations it won't be very long until 

 they become discouraged in the matter of exhibiting. I think it is very 

 important that our boys and girls get the most satisfactory accommoda- 

 tions possible to show their stuff, at least equal with the older people. 



In the matter of demonstrations we are meeting another problem. You 

 are always interested at your fairs in having something that will attract 

 and will impress people with its value, yet having these demonstrations 

 put on by these boys and girls accomplished that purpose last year. In 

 Chicago I was very much interested in the team from Iowa which demon- 

 strated there. It was the baby beef club team from Muscatine county 

 which won out here at the Iowa State Fair last year and we were able 

 to get the two best in Chicago. They gave a demonstration there during 

 the International on Monday last week, and a number of men of the stock 

 yards were there, including Mr. Leonard, who commented very favorably 

 on the effect of that demonstration upon the people who were attending. 

 It is a fact shown by figures from army records that 75 per cent of the 

 people cannot receive information by being told of it. Only about 25 per 

 cent where you tell people about a certain thing will be able to use that 

 information and put it into effect. That is the value of our demonstration 

 work. These boys and girls get up and go through the process and it 

 impresses people so much more and so many more people take home these 

 ideas. 



We have carried out demonstrations at the Iowa State Fair the last 

 two or three years to good advantage, excepting that we have had so many 

 of these teams sent in from the counties we are almost swamped, can 

 hardly work out a program to take care of them. We strive to make room 

 for them in some way, encourage them to come, because there is no reason 

 why in some work like poultry culling we can't have a team working all 

 the time. These boys and girls will do that very effectively. You will 

 be surprised if you never followed that work how effectively the boys and 

 girls who have this information carry out their part before people. They 

 will do just as good a job — I often say I would just as soon have some of 

 the boys and girls I have seen here at this state demonstration in exten- 

 sion work as some other demonstrators, because they are able to do as 

 good a job. 



In the matter of the stock judging contest there were about 200 who 

 took part in it and I don't think there was anything of more interest. 



