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made the statement that if he were allowed to pick samples from the 

 various exhibits he would be willing to compete at any show in the 

 world where quality of exhibits alone was taken into consideration. 



There will be a recommendation made to the board at the annual 

 meeting for a classification for county exhibits to be put up by the county 

 advisors working under the Extension department and the United States 

 government. This classification should insure twelve or fifteen excel- 

 lent county exhibits which would greatly increase the variety and 

 quantity of our agricultural exhibit another year. 



The entire south end of the Agricultural building was devoted to the 

 Horticultural exhibit this year. Something like 6,000 plates of fruit 

 were on exhibition. This was supplemented by an exhibit of apples in 

 commercial packages banked around the southwest corner of the build- 

 ing. 



The dairy exhibit consisting of dairy apparatus and equipment, the win- 

 ning samples of creamery butter, dairy butter and cheese, was educa- 

 tional and attractive. The time is not far off when this important in- 

 dustry will demand a separate exhibit building with many added features 

 which the present space will not permit. At the booth of the Food and 

 Dairy Commission information was dispensed pertaining to the modern 

 methods of dairying and it also contained an exhibit of misbranded food 

 stuffs of interest to the public. In the refrigerator was an exhibit con- 

 trasting the production of the average Iowa dairy cow with that of the 

 world's champion. The block of butter representing the production of the 

 average Iowa cow weighed 140 pounds with a value of $42.00, the huge 

 block representing the production of the champion weighed 1,270 pounds, 

 value $381.00. Such a contrast should be impressive and should encour- 

 age improvement of our dairy cattle. 



The machinery exhibit was made by 341 exhibitors this year and 

 it is safe to say that it was the largest and best arranged exhibit ever on 

 the Iowa State Fair Grounds. The exhibitors seemed to take special in- 

 terest this year in making their exhibit educational and attractive. The 

 management found it impossible to accommodate all of the exhibitors 

 with space in the lower part of the grounds and the overflow exhibits were 

 obliged to occupy ground space east of the race track. It is hoped that 

 the completion of the Machinery building may be realized at an early 

 date, which will permit assembling this important exhibit all in one por- 

 tion of the grounds. 



At the State College building was staged a most interesting and in- 

 structive exhibit supplemented by a carefully prepared program of lec- 

 tures and demonstrations. The subjects presented were: "Poultry Keep- 

 ing;" "Domestic Science;" "Alfalfa Growing in Iowa;" "Pedigreed Seed 

 Grain;" "Soils of Iowa and their Management;" "Hog Cholera;" and dem- 

 onstrations showing the proper method of administering the serum treat- 

 ment. 



Among the many other interesting features was the state game farm, 

 occupying about fifteen acres south of the camp grounds. The exhibit 

 consisted of 2,500 of the several species of pheasants, wild ducks, geese. 



