412 IOWA DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



PRESS COMMENTS 



OF THE 



IOWA STATE FAIR OF 1906 



The Greatest Agricultural and Live Stock Exhibition ever 

 Held in this Country. 



Good C'-oos, Prosperous Times and Favorable Weather Com 



bine to make the Fifty-second Iowa State Fair 



a Record Breaker. 



Wallace's Farmer. Bes Moines, loiva. 



Everything which has to do with the making of a successful State 

 Fair was favorable to Iowa this year. Good crops, good prices, favorable 

 weather for rounding up the summer's work, the desire of the exhibitors 

 to show their products to the Iowa farmer, and on top of it all ideal 

 fair weather, all combined to make the Iowa State Fair this year the 

 greatest agricultural exposition that has ever been held anywhere in the 

 world. It is not a new thing to record a record-breaking fair in Iowa. 

 We have been doing that for five or six years past, until it has come to 

 be the expected as a matter of course. Nothing but weather of the very 

 worst sort could have prevented the most optimistic anticipating such an 

 overwhelming success in both exhibits and attendance as was witnessed 

 last week. 



The farmers of Iowa have adopted the State Fair as their own par- 

 ticular institution, and as long as it is conducted in such a manner as 

 to merit the patronage of decent, self-respecting people, nothing but very 

 short crops or some untoward circumstance can prevent it from being 

 successful. It would not be reasonable to expect that every fair will be 



