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cent of the total valuation, showing a very healthful condition of their 

 financial affairs. The twelve fairs reporting the largest amounts paid in 

 premiums are as follows: 



Marshall County Fair $2,263.05 



North lov.a Fair (Mason City) 1,990.86 



Union District Fair (West Liberty) 1,630.00 



Cass County Fair (Atlantic) 1,490.79 



Kossuth County Fair 1,213.00 



Columbus Junction District Fair 1,208.25 



Buena Vista County Fair 1,176.75 



Hardin County Fair 1,136.40 



Cedar County Fair 1,125.05 



Clinton County Fair (DeWitt) 1,105.00 



Wapsie Valley Fair (Central City) 1,075.30 



Henry County Fair (Mt. Pleasant) 1,030.00 



When you consider the amount of state aid received by fairs in other 

 states, viz: Wisconsin, Illinois, New York, etc., which runs from seven- 

 teen hundred to three and sometimes four thousand dollars, you will hav~ 

 to concede that the fairs of Iowa reflect great credit upon the publ:c 

 spirited men with whom their management is lodged. 



AGBICULTUBAL SCHOOL. 



The work of our Iowa State College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts 

 continues upon the same high standard. Its growth in attendance from 

 year to year is very gratifying to those interested in the advancement of 

 agricultural education in Iowa. The success attained by its student body 

 in various judging contests is proof of its excellent corps of instructors. 

 Only last week the judging team from Ames again won the Spoor trophy at 

 the International Live Stock Exposition in Chicago against the best Jeam 

 from six or seven other agricultural colleges entered in the contest. 



IOWA STATE FAIR AND EXPOSITION. 



I am going to depart from my usual custom in telling you in my an- 

 nual report what a great State Fair Iowa has and what it means to Iowa 

 agriculturists, by quoting from the reports of ten or a dozen of the 

 world's greatest live stock and agricultural journals. I want to prove 

 to you by these quotations the importance of our fair as an educational 

 institution, and to further prove its usefulness as a clearing house for 

 the selling and buying of pure bred stock. I \^ ant you to listen to the 

 comments made by others rather than from one whose heart and soul has 

 been w^rapped up in the Iowa State Fair for several years. 



• First I am going to tell you what a state fair really is by quoting 

 from an editorial taken from one of America's greatest farm papers; it is 

 as follows: 



"The state fair is full of interest and meets the wants of the city and 

 country worker alike. It is the state on exhibition. It is a great show- 

 ing of .its products, manufactures, crops, live stock, machinery, minerals, 

 and &J1. tte methods and processes by w'hich the state has attained its 



