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five-gaited and three-gaited classes were also very good, a large number 

 of entries being out and the Iowa exhibitors furnishing strong competition. 

 The judge was Walter Palmer, Ottawa, 111. 



The heavy harness exhibits were decidedly the best that the Des 

 Moines show has ever witnessed. Honors were very well divided among 

 the Pabst Stock Farm, the Wild Rose Farm, O. J. Mooers, and D. C. 

 Cameron of Canada. The Pabst and Cameron entries formed the sensa- 

 tion of the show. Walter Palmer and .T. O. Williams of Fort Collins, Colo., 

 made the awards. 



In the classes for jumpers the horse show took a rather wide departure 

 from former years. The fact that it was a new feature prevented the high- 

 class competition that prevailed in the other light horse departments. 

 Nevertheless it may be considered an established feature, as the interest 

 of the ringside and exhibitors both was markedly aroused. The military 

 horse competition also showed a hazy conception of the type, if the va- 

 riety of entries be an indication. Maj.-Gen. James Rush Lincoln of the 

 Iowa National Guard distributed the awards in consistent style. 



SHETLA>-D rOXIES. 



The only breed that need not fear motor competition is the Shetland 

 Pony. The Iowa fair has long been known as a chief center of exhibition 

 and the 1913 show maintained the standard of years past. Heyl's well 

 known King Larigo entered the contests eight times to bear away seven 

 firsts and a championship. He has thickened far beyond last year's 

 promise. In the class of aged mares nineteen motherly pets that all fell 

 almost on the forty-one-inch mark met in competition. The show was of a 

 higher order of excellence than usual and Prof. Kennedy's ratings were 

 well received. The awards in full were published last week on page 360. 



boys' judging contest. 



The stock judging contest for boys under twenty-one was the hottest in 

 years. One hundred and ten aspirants put in six strenuous hours to learn 

 who would be the winner of the free scholarship offered at Ames. The 

 $200 award went to Harry H. Meneough, Grimes, la., a lad who nas worked 

 consistently at farmers' short courses and in boys' agricultural clubs to 

 make a finished judge of himself. The other four winners were respec- 

 tively: Vernon Guthrie, Newton; Harry H. Webster, Runnells; J. Leo 

 Ahart, Dow City; and Raymond Teachout, Imogene. The last prize is $25 

 and is to be applied to the winter short course at Ames. The first four 

 boys are barred from further competition, but the fifth is eligible for next 

 year. So close was the contest that five other boys were given honorable 

 mention by the fair management. 



IOWA HOMESTEAD, DES MOINES, IOWA. 



Iowa's prosperity is reflected in its state fair. Inaugurating the 

 grainbelt series, the Iowa exposition is looked to to set the pace for the 

 others. In the state where prosperity has become a habit, which leads 

 the nation in the acreage of the world's principal crops (corn, wheat, oats, 

 -hay and potatoes) and which leads the world in the quantity and value 



