PART IV 



Iowa State Fair and Exposition Press Reports and 

 Live Stock Awards, 1914 



BREEDERS GAZETTE, CHICAGO, ILL. 



The sixtieth anniversary of the Iowa State Fair added stature and 

 fame. In its three score years it has acquired foundation on wliich 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 farm world. Its stride this year was mighty. Its pro- 

 moters and patrons have every reason to rest in content and gratification 

 over the spectacle which their united efforts added to farm history in 

 America. 



A little matter of $110,000 in improvements made visible impress. 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 permanent improvements the Iowa State 

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

 in its stock department stand spacious, modern brick structures; at their 

 rear, sheltering valuable cattle and sheep, are sheds that scarcely meet 

 the requirements of a county fair grounds. And about 300 head of horses 

 and cattle were sheltered in tents. This disagreeable fact is not a re- 

 proach to the managers of this fair. They appreciate the situation quite 

 as much as do the exhibitors and visitors; no men ever labored more 

 earnestly to meet it. They beg to report progress — astonishing progress — 

 and give assurance that their efforts will be redoubled until these grounds 

 stand equipped in all departments in a fashion that satisfactorily typifies 

 the wealth and progress of Iowa agriculture. 



Access to the grounds was made more comfortable by an expenditure 

 of $3,000 in enlargement of the street car entrance. The shed is now 240 

 feet long. Cement sidewalks, curbs and gutters absorbed $5,000 of the 

 board's money. The new dairy barn, symbol of the board's intentions 

 toward that industry, stands in line with the other new cattle barns, and 

 is of the same architecture. It is 60 by 120 feet and shelters 108 cattle. 

 It cost $6,000. A brick cooling out paddock for the race horses required 

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