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babies' health contests, with increasing interest and profit. Babies are 

 examined by sliilled doctors and psychologists, not for personal beauty 

 but health and mentality. The value of these contests is shown by 

 the fact that a little farm baby which failed to get any place two years 

 ago was brought up the following year on the advice given by the doc- 

 tors who had judged her at the show and returned a year ago to win 

 honorable mention. If this can be done in only one year's time, the 

 possibilities of the campaign have no limit. The Homestead wishes to 

 go on record as saying that there is no more important or valuable 

 work being carried on under the state fair direction than this work of 

 improving the human stock through the annual babies' health contest. 



For the first time in the history of the Iowa State Fair the grand 

 champion sweepstakes for the best individual collective farm exhibit 

 were won by a woman. She is Mrs. Fannie Klinck, of Clarksville, and 

 has been exhibiting farm products only four years. She was born and 

 reared on an Iowa farm, but never gave any particular attention to 

 farming until a few years ago. The quality and rank of her exhibit 

 has climbed up from fourth place in 1909 to first place this year, and 

 that in the face of the strongest competition. Mrs. Klinck lectures on 

 agriculture twice a week in the Waterloo schools and teaches agri- 

 culture at teachers' institutes. While she is not a graduate of any 

 agricultural college she is thoroughly scientific. 



SIIOBT-IIOENS. 



The showing of the cosmopolitan breed led into the ring at the initial 

 show of the Great Western Circuit was strong in numbers, but not up 

 to standard quality in all the classes. While there were many excellent 

 individuals of the breed shown, quite a number of the animals appeared 

 in poor state fair condition and finish which served to detract from the 

 general impression gained of the Short-horn showing. One hundred and 

 five head from the herds of eighteen exhibitors, fourteen of which came 

 from Iowa, two from Wisconsin, one from Minnesota and one from 

 Indiana were led before Judge T. E. Robson, of London, Ontario, Can., 

 who tied the ribbons and gave universal satisfaction. 



Wisconsin carried off both grand championship honors. Sultan Mine 

 is showing in his usual good form, easily winning first in class, senior 

 and grand championship honors. Cumberland's Type, the senior bull 

 calf shown by C. A. Saunders, of Manilla, Iowa, won first in a strong 

 class of calves and also carried off junior championship honors. 



In female classes some very good animals were brought forward and 

 in the younger classes there was very keen competition. The two-year- 

 old Maxwalton Missie 2d, owned by Anoka Farms, won first in a strong 

 class of two-year-old heifers, and was later made senior champion fe- 

 male. She was, however, defeated for grand championship honors by 

 Village Flower 2d, quite a remarkably good junior yearling heifer from 

 the same herd, that won up through her class and junior championship 

 honors. The senior heifer class aroused much interest, and there was 



