202 IOWA DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 



I know you see this matter exactly as I do, and I know the dairy 

 breeders of Iowa will unanimously thank you for your assistance. Yours 

 sincerely, 



(Signed) Hugh G. Van Pelt. 



I might -say in connection with this, I got this letter just a 

 little while ago, and had not read it over, but along the line that 

 Professor O'Donnell has talked and some of the remarks that 

 have been made here, I might say that one of the greatest advan- 

 tages of uniformity in our classification of premiums would be to 

 enable a man to make up a herd and go from one fair to another 

 and make the circuit, and know that he is not carrying any dead 

 stock with him. And I am sure that the department at Ames 

 will be able to furnish us with the bulletin Mr. O'Donnell sug- 

 gests along this line early enough to be useful that it will result 

 in a great go-od to the Iowa fairs. 



Chairman: The next will be a paper entitled, "The Cedar 

 Valley — A New Comer," b}^ H. S. Stanbery of Mason City. 



THE CEDAR VALLEY— A NEW COMER. 



BY H. S. STATsEEET, MASOX CITT. 



Mr. President and Gentlemen: First, I want to thank the officers for 

 giving recognition to the Cedar Valley Fair and placing us on the program 

 at this meeting. I feel incapable of saying anything here that will be 

 of interest to you. However, as I understand this association, it is more 

 for the purpose of an experience meeting and getting together and ex- 

 changing ideas. If you will excuse my blushes and forget anything I may 

 say in the way of bragging over the fair I was connected with this year, I 

 will proceed to state, briefly, what was accomplished by the Cedar Valley 

 Fair this year. 



The Cedar Valley Fair was organized, or it was conceived that a suc- 

 cessful fair could be held in the district where it was organized, which 

 was in Black Hawk county, between Cedar Falls and Waterloo, and last 

 spring, I think, along the latter part of February or the first of March, 

 an organization was perfected there, consisting of business men of Cedar 

 Falls and Waterloo and a few farmers. A track was built, an amphi- 

 theater was constructed, a nice tract of land was chosen, by the way, 

 about a mile and a half from the city of Cedar Falls, and within access 

 of Waterloo (about four miles, I understand, from Waterloo), on the 

 Interui'ban line. The time was getting late and the fair was planned, 

 of course, for last fall, and vv^as held there at that time, and it meant a 

 iot of work. The track having been biiilt, and the amphitheater practically 

 tumpleted, there was a little change of management down there on the 



