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IOWA DEPAETMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



A Typical Crowd at the Iowa State Fair. Live Stock Pavilion in back Ground. 



IOWA'S RECORD-BREAKING OPENING. 



UNPARALLELED SUCCESS OF THE FIFrV-SECOND ANNUAL STATE FAIR AT DES 



MOIXES. 



Breeders' Gazette, Chicago. Illinois. 



In Iowa this year of grace they grow corn, think corn, talk corn, 

 eat corn, drink — but, no, in Iowa they drink water. The crop of 

 maize now maturing in the fields of the Hawkeye state must make 

 Hiawatha turn in his grave with sheer admiration. And that things 

 that go with corn to augment the agricultural richness of this mighty 

 commonwealth have been produced in prodigious quantities. It is high 

 noon in farm production. The clock strikes the hour of Iowa's great- 

 est agricultural prosperity. And this was sensationally mirrored in 

 the Fifty-second Annual State Fair. 



Many of its features fall in the record-breaking class. As a whole 

 it was the purple-ribbon winner — the royal championship hue — of its 

 long line of predecessors. Exhibits ran out of the ordinary in nearly 

 all departments. In some sections entries were horizontally scaled 

 down in order to permit a larger representation of exhibitors, and 

 even then accommodations failed. The most gratifying feature is that 

 quality in most instances kept measurably in sight of the betterment in 

 numbers. Some sections were no larger than in former years and 



