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carried out. A few hundred dollars each year spent for conveniences 

 and permanent improvements will make the difference between real 

 living and mere existence. Better houses, better furnishings, walks, 

 lights, labor-saving machinery, and we will hear less of this talk about 

 the boys leaving the farm." 



To which all present promptly agreed. 



THE STOCK SHOW. 



The show in the live stock pavilion began promptly Friday morn- 

 ing, with the Shetland ponies and mules. Friday was Children's Day, 

 and there were in the neighborhood of 10,000 youngsters under fif- 

 teen years of age scattered over the grounds. The live stock pavilion 

 was a popular place with these little folks when the little horses were 

 being put through their paces. There was a number of right fancy 

 Shetlands on exhibition, the principal exhibitors being George A. Heyl, 

 of Washington, 111.; B. R. Welty, Nevada, Iowa; Mrs. A. Stirling, Des 

 Moines, low^a; John Donohoe, Story City, Iowa; W. C. Roberts & Sons, 

 Ames, Iowa; Miss Frances Culbertson, Panora, Iowa; H. C. Davis, 

 Ames, Iowa. Premiums were fairly well distributed, Mr. Heyl, how- 

 ever, having the largest exhibit, and securing more ribons than any 

 other single exhibitor. 



THE SHORT-HORXS. 



Iowa furnished the bulk of the Short-horn exhibit. One animal came 

 from Indiana, one from Illinois, nine from Minnesota, and thirty from 

 Wisconsin. Ohio, Kentucky, and Illinois herds, which have won many 

 prizes at previous fairs, had taken their herds to the eastern circuit, 

 or else were not showing this year. It has been many years since the 

 Iowa Fair has seen a weaker Short-horn exhibit. The show opened 

 Saturday afternoon with three entries in the aged bull class. The two- 

 year-old bulls were better, both in numbers and quality. At the top 

 were two excellent roans. Sultan Mine, owned by Carpenter & Car- 

 penter, Baraboo, Wisconsin, and Silver Sultan, owned by Burge. Both 

 the yearling bull classes were lacking in numbers and quality. The 

 senior calves, wath twenty-one entries, furnished the banner class of 

 the Short-horn exhibit. Saunders came to the top with two mellow 

 roans. Cumberland's Type, a calf of great scale, and one filling the 

 eye in almost every way, was given first. He was easily made junior 

 champion later in the day. Gloster Fashion, the two-year-old bull 

 from the Anoka Farms, took senior championship without much oppo- 

 sition, and later was made grand champion bull over the Saunders 

 calf. 



The aged cow classes w^ere decidedly weak, but the yearling and calf 

 classes presented excellent quality. The junior yearlings were in most 

 respects the outstanding class of the Short-horn exhibit. Village Flower 

 2d, a beautiful white heifer, was outstanding. Low dow^n, broad and 

 smooth, she filled the eye in every respect. Senior calves were uni- 

 formly good, not running out in quality until well toward the end of 



