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This display was based upon an outlay of $800, to be proportioned as 

 premiums among the contestants according to the score each received 

 from the awarding committee. The score for a complete exhibit was 100 

 points, and fifty was the score necessary to win a pro rata in the money 

 offered. Thus all farms whose display scored fifty points or more were 

 entitled to their pro rata of the $800, according to this score. Those ar- 

 ticles that combine in making up the individual farm collective exhibit are 

 not eligible to enter in the general classification of farm products in other 

 divisions of the fair. It is the purpose of the fair management to add ma- 

 terially to this line of display by creating other classes of interest to the 

 farmer upon similar basis of incentive. 



ACRICirLTURAL BUILDING CENTER OF IXTi:REST. 



The agricultural building, which at present is used to house practically 

 every feature of farm production outside of live stock, has become one of 

 the great centers of interest on the State Fair Grounds. It provides space 

 for the fruit display, both fresh fruits and canned fruits, pickles, preserves, 

 etc. The fresh fruit exhibit was an improvement over former years, es- 

 pecially in quantity and variety exhibited. 



The showcase plan of exhibit, the putting of as much as possible be- 

 hind glass, where dust and dirt are excluded, and where the handling by 

 anxious, inquisitive visitors is prevented, is being looked upon with great 

 favor by the Iowa State Fair management. All fine textile exhibits, painted 

 china, bread, cake, pickles, preserves, etc., are being provided with glass 

 cases for exhibition. The threshed grain is exhibited under glass, in 

 galvanized iron boxes, and thus kept free from dirt and handling. The 

 arrangement of the exhibition tables and cases throughout this build- 

 ing accommodates large crowds and lessens congestion in crowded aisles. 



POULTRY AND GAME EXHIBIT. 



The poultry industry, especially the farm poultry, is receiving a great 

 deal of careful study and experimentation in view of developing the 

 highest practical condition for profit in poultry growing. The dressing 

 of fowls for market and for economical home use, where the fowl was 

 stripped from the bones, leaving its skeleton entirely bare of flesh and 

 yet l-etaining the meat in one unbroken piece to roll up and bake or 

 roast without the least particle of bone to contend with, was one of 

 the features of poultry demonstration work that was taught each day 

 at the poultry department. There were 2,100 fowls on exhibition, rep- 

 resenting every breed and variety produced in this country. 



The game exhibit at the Iowa State Fair is one of the very attractive 

 and novel displays, and is interesting both to the farmer and the hunter. 

 The State Board of Agriculture has set aside and properly fenced 

 twenty-two acres of rough, hilly timber land on the southeast corner 

 of the State Fair grounds for the propagation of game, especially quail 

 and pheasant of the varieties best suited for stocking up the brush 

 and timber districts. This enterprise becomes a part of the State Fair 

 exhibit. Thousands of visitors travel to this remote corner of the 

 grounds to see the foreign birds and novelties in breed and style of 

 pheasant, quail, duck, goose, etc., that are kept within the confines of 

 the twenty-two acres devoted to this purpose. 



