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IOWA DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 



The exhibit at the 1913 fair was made by 1,59S exhibitors making a 

 total of 16,170 entries in the various departments. 



The total number of entries does not take into consideration entries 

 in the machinery department. Every department was well represented 

 and every building and barn filled and overflowing with exhibits. 



The following table indicates the diversity of the exhibit and gives 

 the number of exhibitors and number of entries in each department com- 

 pared with the figures for the fair of 1912: 



1913 Fair 1912 Fair 



Department No. of No. of No. of No. of 



Exhibitors Entries Exhibitors Entries 



Horses 148 2,028 143 2,002 



Cattle 74 1,330 84 1,345 



Swine 117 1,590 173 2,384 



Sheep 24 647 27 646 



Poultry 117 1,636 97 1 ,508 



Agriculture 158 1,612 144 1,624 



Pantry 144 2,206 149 2,122 



Dairy 89 89 101 102 



Horticulture 49 ' 976 36 628 



Floriculture 18 277 18 271 



Fine Arts 220 2,779 216 2,805 



School Exhibits 341 309 



Total 1,598 16,170 1,581 16,087 



The exhibit in the horse department was made by 148 exhibitors who 

 entered 993 head of horses, ponies and mules. This was an increase of 

 five exhibitors and twenty-one head entered over last year. 



There were 107 Iowa exhibitors; twenty-two Illinois; eight Missouri; 

 four Wisconsin; three Nebraska; one Minnesota; one New Jersey and 

 two from Canada. 



A feature of the horse show was the excellent rings of yearling stal- 

 lions and fillies shown for the prizes offered in the National Draft Horse 

 Breeders' Futurity. Competent judges made the statement at the close of 

 the show that it was the grandest ring of yearlings ever lined up in an 

 American show ring. At the close of the show the owner of the first prize 

 filly in the Percheron division accepted an offer of $2,000.00 made by 

 Senator White of Leesburg, Virgina, and the filly was shipped to his 

 farm in Virgina for breeding purposes. 



The stable of hunters and jumpers and light harness horses entered 

 by Hon. D. C. Cameron, Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba, Canada, created 

 a great deal of interest and figured prominently in the awards at the 

 night horse show. 



On the whole the horse show was well Italanced and afforded an ex- 

 cellent opportunity for the student and breeder to study the true types of 

 the various breeds. 



