TENTH ANNUAL YEAR BOOK— PART V 173 



county could utilize its county farm to test out and develop varietiea, 

 and if in turn an educational exhibit showing the results could be made 

 at the state fair an immense amount of good would be accomplished. 



The people of Iowa should insist that their fair in the future should, 

 even more than in the past, advertise the state. Indeed this is a mat- 

 ter that should be made the subject of special appropriation. The west- 

 ern states are pouring millions into advertising and as a result of this 

 many of our best people are seeking homes in newer regions where con- 

 ditions of living are in no way comparable with what they are in Iowa 

 and where problems of production are much more complex. 



We need to give more encouragement to the manufacturing interests 

 of the state. Almost everything that Iowa makes, as well as every 

 manufactured thing that her people use, ought to be on exhibition, but 

 this can only be accomplished when space has been provided under cover 

 for such exhibits. As Iowa will always furnish a splendid market for 

 manufactured articles of all kinds, the state can well afford to encour- 

 age her own people to develop as much as possible the manufacturing 

 industry. Our greatest market for farm products is our home market 

 and the more people we can keep engaged in industries other than agri- 

 culture the better will our market be. I am just as strongly in favor of 

 the state erecting a suitable manufacturer's building as I was in former 

 years about the erection of a judging amphitheater and swine pavilion. 



There is one branch of agriculture that seemingly has never been 

 viewed by the people of Iowa in its proper light. I refer to the in- 

 dustry of sheep raising. I merely bring the matter up with no thought 

 whatever of suggesting ways or means of putting any life into that in- 

 dustry, but according to my view, if the fair officials set about it they 

 could formulate some plan to encourage farmers in general to keep 

 sheep. We need them because they can convert grain and roughage into 

 meat cheaper than any other farm animal, and we need them to free 

 our farms from weeds. We could handle a million or even two mil- 

 lion more sheep in the state and never miss what they would eat, and 

 their presence on the farms of the state would greatly change the ap- 

 parance of our pastures. I merely suggest the idea of doing somthing 

 out of the ordinary to encourage the growth of that important industry. 



I believe it is the duty of the people of Iowa through the medium of 

 the state fair to greatly encourage the growth and production of legumin- 

 ous crops. ■ The exhibit of alfalfa made last fall furnished one of the most 

 educational features of the whole fair. Not only should the growing or 

 alfalfa be encouraged more and more, but the great king of legumes for 

 Iowa conditions, namely the common red clover, should be duly adver- 

 tised and duly eulogized to the end that the area of this crop seeded 

 annually should be vastly increased. We have a certain school of scien- 

 tists who are teaching that because the product of an acre in the form 

 of corn furnishes so much more food for the human race than when the 

 same product is converted, into meat that because of this stock raising 

 cannot be indefinitely relied upon as a means of maintaining the fertility 

 supply. These scientists hold that this must be done through the medium 

 of rotating crops in which legumes take an important part. For my own 



