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V. G. Warner, superintendent of poultry, said: "The prize winners 

 could be taken out of any of the classes exhibited here and the remain- 

 ing birds would be as good in quality as are seen at the average show 

 at this time of the year. This statement points to the fact that this 

 year's poultry show was far above the average in quality. A fortunate 

 circumstance for Iowa in connection with this quality show was the fact 

 that all the poultry exhibitors were Iowans. 



A feature of unusual interest to the fowl followers at the fair was the 

 wonderful showing made of pigeons. Previous to this year, pigeon en- 

 tries had always been rather weak. This year, partly due to a national 

 meeting of Swiss Mondaine pigeon breeders held here, pigeon breeders 

 from all parts of the United States were present with their breeds. 

 There were pigeon exhibitors at the fair from as far east as New York 

 and as far south as South Carolina and as far west as California. Breeds 

 for squab breeding were more in prominence, yet there was a good show- 

 ing of pigeons in the Carrier, Homer, Fantail and Carneaux classes. 



In the duck and geese classes, entries also exceeded those of last year, 

 the rise being about 20 per cent above the year previous. This was the 

 first time the waterfowl were shown under the National Waterfowl 

 Breeders' Association. Gerald R. Duncan, state vice-president of the 

 association, was in charge, while Oscar Grow, state secretary, was the 

 judge. The quality of the entries was fair with some outstanding indi- 

 viduals in both the duck and geese classes. 



Entries in the Bantam classes also increased in this year's show. 

 There were nearly twice as many bantams this year, their number being 

 112. Several exceptional high quality and pretty hanties were on exhi- 

 bition. 



The poultry building on the hill was crowded from morning till night 

 with enthusiastic chicken fanciers who wished to see what the other 

 fellow had succeeded in raising and to compare the fruits of his or her 

 efforts with the results of his own. Representatives of many commer- 

 cial chick feeds, feed mixtures, egg producing mixtures and the like 

 were present and no doubt convinced many people as to the better ways 

 of handling chickens for profit. More interest was shown in the judge's 

 results than has been manifested heretofore, which indicates that more 

 people are becoming acquainted with the value of good poultry and 

 waterfowl. 



FARM BUREAU DAY AT THE FAIR 



(From Iowa Homestead) 



After conceding Iowa the honor of standing second to his own state in 

 agriculture, and practically everything else worth while in the world, 

 Governor Preus, of Minnesota, counseled the farmers of the Hawkeye 

 state to follow in the footsteps of those of his own state and find a solu- 

 tion of many of their problems by widening their field of co-operative 

 effort. 



The governor is thoroughly sold on co-operative effort for farmers. He 

 made it very plain that he favored that plan of action in preference to 



