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get seed corn? What is the best number of kernels to plant to the 

 hill? Does it pay to drill? Answers are given to all these questions. 

 Plans of farm buildings are ready for inspection. Suggestions are given 

 as to the best trees to plant in the Iowa wood lot for posts and in the 

 windbreak for protection. Last, but not least, there is a miniature of 

 a model farm house and grounds. All of these things are deserving of 

 study rather than a passing glance. There is food for the brain as well 

 as for the eye. Most people make the mistake in goiAg through too 

 fast. They should stop and consider, and ask questions. Young men in 

 charge of the exhibits know their business, and are glad to give any 

 inquirer the benefit of what they know. The Agricultural College ex- 

 hibit is worthy a thorough and repeated inspection. It seems that most 

 people come to the fair to hear the noises and see the big sights. They 

 like to be where a crowd is. They seem to fear they may overtax their 

 brains if they stop long at any one exhibit. But they have no thought 

 of danger to their eyes or to their ears. It is the eye, ear and tongue 

 which receive exercise at the fair, rather than the brain. 



There are more worth-while lectures at the fair this year than ever 

 before. In the back part of the Agricultural College building, moving 

 pictures are given, every morning and afternoon, on up-to-date poultry 

 keeping. The domestic science ladies of the college lecture here every 

 morning at 9:30 and every afternoon at 1:30, on some phase of cooking or 

 care of the home. At 3:30 in the afternoon, the professors of the college 

 give a hog cholera demonstration or a talk on some such subject as 

 alfalfa, farm management in Iowa, or distribution of pure-bred seed. 



There are thousands of reunions every year at the fair. Friends of 

 long ago, who had moved to a distant corner of the state, remind us 

 of their existence. It is pleasurable and worth while to meet once 

 again with the old neighbors and learn how they prosper. The Wallaces' 

 Farmer pavilion, in Newspaper Row, just north of the Exposition Build- 

 ing, is crowded with old and new friends. They come to renew their 

 subscriptions or to tell of crop conditions, or for a general chat. Dis- 

 appointment is voiced because of the absence of Uncle Henry. He landed 

 at New York ten days ago, but is detained in the east. 



Between the Agricultural Building and the Exposition Building is the 

 Child Welfare Tent. Here is held the baby health contest, and in the 

 afternoon lectures are given on subjects of special interest to women. 

 Ninety-seven boys, one from practically every county in the state, came 

 to the fair with their expenses paid. These boys were the winners in 

 the prize essay contest. They sleep together in a big tent on the hill, 

 just southeast of the Agricultural Building. Every morning they get up 

 at five, so as to help take tickets from those who stayed on the ground 

 over night. Most of the morning they have to themselves, but in the 

 afternoon and evening they usher in the grandstand, and ten o'clock 

 finds them thoroughly tired and ready to enjoy to the limit their seven 

 hours of sleep. 



