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did not compel him to 'bid higher for the sake of the boys who fed 

 the calves and the good of the movement generally. Top price of 

 the sale was $16.50 a hundred. 



YOUNG PEOPLE PROMINENT. 



It was good to see so many young people present, and better 

 still to see them taking such an active part in the various depart- 

 ments. Wednesday, August 29th, was Boys' and Girls' Club Day, 

 and hundreds of club members from all parts of the state were 

 present and contributed to the success of the day. This club work 

 is assuming decidedly majestic proportions and influence in the 

 state. There are twelve branches or divisions in all, with a com- 

 bined membership of nearly 175,000. All the various divisions 

 were represented — baby beef clubs, pig clubs, garden clubs, canning 

 clubs, etc., and when the grand parade started at one o'clock more 

 than 1,000 members from fifty different counties fell into line with 

 their banners. It was a thrilling exhibition of youthful enthusiasm 

 and ambitions, and many a gray-headed veteran watched them with 

 quickened pulse beats and wished it were possible to turn back the 

 pages of time and live life over again. 



EXTRAORDINARY EXHIBITS OP MACHINERY. 



Manufacturers of farm implements and labor-saving devices of 

 all kinds in use in the world of agriculture have for many years 

 past found Iowa a fat field for their operations, so fat, indeed, that 

 the state is credited by their statisticians as purchasing more farm 

 machinery than any other one state in the Union. The machinery 

 show at the fair might well be accepted as Iowa's attitude toward 

 the general use of labor-saving appliances. For certainly it was a 

 marvelous demonstration of the application of power, gas and. 

 electric, for the completion of tasks formerly achieved by muscular 

 effort and mental perseverance. Nothing to equal it had ever been 

 seen before in Iowa. 



The tractors were out in full force, with at least three times as 

 many on exhibition as had ever been shown at any previous fair. 

 They were in endless variety and were subjected to careful consid- 

 eration and expert scrutiny by hundreds of Iowa landowners seek- 

 ing to solve that increasingly perplexing problem of farm power 

 in the absence of competent help. Iowa is a liberal buyer of trac- 

 tors, according to the figures presented by the tractor builders, pur- 

 chasing a little more than 11 per cent of the tractors distributed in 

 this country last year. 



