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who keep up the fertility of their soils without raising much live stock. 

 There are others who are managing live stock farms very successfully. 

 If the results of such different methods could be shown, individual farm 

 exhibits would prove to be one of the most attractive features at the 

 fair. It is time that some steps were taken in this direction. 



Uncle Sam was on the fair grounds this year with an exhibit showing 

 people how his parcel post may be used to good advantage in marketing 

 various farm products. This exhibit was quite interesting and it was 

 stated that there is a movement on foot to increase the weight of parcels 

 that may be carried for short distances. Uncle Sam expects soon to be 

 carrying 100-pound packages and make the parcel post a real practical 

 thing for the farmer. 



Housewives took much interest in an exhibit that showed the relative 

 nutritive values of different foods. For instance, it was shown that the 

 following amounts of foods have equivalent nutriment values: One quart 

 of milk, one pound of cheese, 10 eggs, 11 ounces of beef, 6.5 ounces of 

 bread, five ounces of corn meal, five bananas, 9.5 ounces of potatoes, and 

 one head of cabbage. While one can not always substitute a quart of 

 milk for 10 eggs, yet the knowledge of the relative nutritive values of 

 these food products is highly important in the management of the home. 

 A great many people consider milk as a sort of luxury, when as a matter 

 of fact it is far from it; it is an economical food. A quart of milk can 

 be bought for eight cents, whereas 10 eggs perhaps cost 25 cents or more. 

 In these days of high priced food products it is important that the house- 

 wife should be posted on relative food values of the articles she uses in 

 the culinary department. 



HORSES. 



PEKCHERONS. 



The Percheron show was not so good, taking it as a whole, as we have 

 seen in previous years. Probably there were more Percherons on the 

 ground and the entries were larger, but with a few exceptions there were 

 no outstanding winners in any of the classes. One noticeable feature was 

 the great number of new men having entries of a few horses. It was 

 pretty much an American-bred show, and Harry Early of Liscombe, Iowa, 

 a young breeder, is to be congratulated upon his winnings, as he made 

 his first appearance this year and captured the first prize in the aged 

 mare class, the female grand championship, and the reserve. The cham- 

 pion mare, Hermine, is a massive, gray seven-year-old — one that shows 

 that she has been in the collar as well as raising colts. Reserve mare, 

 Florence 2d, a black three-year-old mare of great promise, was sired by 

 the champion Inscrit. Lakewood Farm took their noted sire, Calypso, 

 to show in "Stallion and his get." This horse is in his 17th year, and 

 yet came back and won in his class. The Percheron futurity classes, in 



