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The following is the attendance of the 1914 fair, by days, compared 

 with 1911, 1912 and 1913 fairs: 



Wednesday . 



Thursday 



'Friday 



tSaturday _. 



Sunday 



Monday 



Tuesday 



Wednesday . 

 Thursday .-- 

 Friday 



Total. 



4,537 

 9,886 

 27,613 

 27,999 

 22,200 

 41,229 

 39,612 

 46,496 

 31,523 

 21,978 



273,073 



1913 



3,849 

 8,608 

 33,020 

 26,861 

 25,211 

 58,045 

 66,465 

 40,972 

 17,431 



3,090 

 7,503 

 27,957 

 18,902 

 40.602 

 60,379 

 58,643 

 38,831 

 16,116 



280,462 I 272,023 



4,074 

 6,063 

 27,514 

 17,612 

 37,309 

 64,(J99 

 60,580 

 34,117 

 18,173 



270,682 



♦Children's Day, 1913-14. 

 tChildren's Day, 1911-12. 



In addition to a review of the exhibits this year, I wish to quote at 

 this time from a number of our leading agricultural papers. The opinions 

 of these editorial writers were gained by a personal visit to the Iowa State 

 Fair this year. I believe what they have to say will give us a better idea 

 of the Iowa State Fair than anything I could say, or, at least, they will 

 give us a better conception of the high esteem the agricultural press has 

 for the Iowa State Fair. 



The Breeders' Gazette has this to say of the Iowa State Fair this year: 

 "The sixtieth anniversary of the low^a State Fair added stature and 

 fame. In its three score years it has acquired foundation on which the 

 present imposing superstructure is built. Commanding in its strategic 

 position at the opening of the Western circuit, this fair exerts every 

 possible effort to measure up to the expectations which the agricultural 

 world each year builds a little bigger. It has no climax in sight. It 

 merely moves an appreciable peg forward each year, the admiration and 

 wonder of the world. Its stride this year was mighty. Its promoters and 

 patrons have every reason to rest in content and gratification over the 

 spectacle which their united efforts added to farm history in America. 



"The fair is in process of rebuilding. It is a long and costly process. 

 Modern demands would have driven old time fair managers to despair. 

 With all its hundreds of thousands in improvements, the Iowa State Fair 

 presents a Queen Ann front and a Mary Ann back. Along the street in 

 the stock departments stand spacious brick structures; in the rear, shelter- 

 ing valuable cattle and sheep, are sheds that scarcely meet the require- 

 ments of a county fair grounds. About 300 head of horses and cattle were 

 sheltered in tents. This disagreeable fact is not a reproach to the man- 

 agers of this fair. They appreciate the situation quite as much as do the 

 exhibitors and visitors." 



The Iowa Homestead, Des Moines, Iowa, features the Iowa State Fair 

 as follows: 



"The Iowa State Fair is an institution of which any state might justly 

 be proud. Leading in the production of corn, oats, hay and hogs, it is 

 only right and proper that Iowa should also lead in the annual exposition 



