170 IOWA DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 



President: Is the Committee on Resolutions ready to report? 



Mr. Palm, Chairman : ]\Ir. Chairman— We have had a dickens 

 of a time getting ready; I did not think we would make it at 

 all, and now I have got nothing but some scraps of paper, but 

 maybe we can make out something. It is too bad to have such 

 a little time and can't find each other. 



REPORT OF COMMITTEEE ON RESOLUTIONS. 



"Whereas, The year 1914 was one of great prosperity to the agicultural 

 and producing interests of Iowa, and 



Whekeas, The farmers of Iowa have labored diligently and with an 

 ever increasing intelligence to promote a higher order of agricultural 

 prosperity and higher ideals of farm, home and civic life, and 



Whekeas, The county, district and state fairs are a visible, tangible 

 and proper expression of the better purposes and higher aims of agri- 

 culture in Iowa, and 



Wheeeas, Iowa is today the ideal agricultural state in the Union, so 

 classified and so regarded by all students of farm values and agricultural 

 wealth, with a topography carrying the maximum of tillable land and the 

 minimum of waste land; located in the heart of the great corn area of 

 the North American continent; with lands the most fertile, climate the 

 most equable, and the conditions the most favorable for the maintenance 

 of a prosperous, busy and contented people, and 



Wheeeas, The great state of Iowa, at its Sixtieth Annual Exposition 

 at Ees Moines last August, gave visible and gratifying evidence of Iowa's 

 unchallenged agricultural superiority, and 



Whereas, The people of Iowa are proud of its rank and its far-reaching 

 influence among the fairs of the great producing West, and 



Whereas, No other agency so gathers together groups and visualizes 

 Iowa's supremacy as an agricultural area as does the state fair, therefore, 

 be it 



Resolved, That, while we have an especial pride in the great Iowa State 

 Fair and its exposition of the general wealth of Iowa's agricultural, horti- 

 cultural, farm and manufacturing industries, we feel that much of its 

 success is due to, and arises from, the wide spirit of agricultural interest 

 and enthusiasm created by the county and local fairs of the state. These 

 local fairs have done, and are doing, the pioneer work in arousing and 

 stimulating agricultural interest throughout every locality in Iowa. They 

 organize its activities at the base. They encourage and promote that 

 large and important class of beginners in the betterment of Iowa pro- 

 duction. They work hand in hand with the average producer. They dis- 

 cover and encourage the progressive young farmers and producers of 

 their respective communities. They work with, and have to do with, the 

 average producers which the state fair cannot reach, and who, in turn, 

 cannot reach the state fair. They reach and encourage the fellow whose 



