864 INDEX 



PART IX OFFICIAL REPORT OF AWARDS IN LIVE STOCK DE- 

 PARTMENTS, SCORING OF BOYS IN JUDGING CONTEST, 

 AND PRESS REPORTS OF THE IOWA STATE 

 FAIR OF 1906, WITH REPORT OF AWARDS 



AT 1906 MATURE CORN SHOW. 



Page 



Cattle department ^'^^ 



Horse department ^^^ 



Poultry department *^^ 



Sheep department ^^^ 



Swine department ^^^ 



SCHOLARSHIP JUDGING CONTEST. 



Scoring of contestants 410 



PRESS REPORTS OF THE FAIR. 



Hawkeye State Fair a record breaker, Twentieth Century Farmer 469 



Iowa's record breaking opening, Breeder's Gazette 446 



The Iowa State Pair, Farmer's Tribune 440 



The Iowa State Fair, The Homestead 429 



W^allaces' Farmer 412 



AWARDS AT 1906 MATURE CORN SHOW. 



Report of awards at the 1906 mature corn show 474 



PART X. PAPERS ON LIVE STOCK, AGRICULTURAL AND MISCEL- 

 LANEOUS TOPICS. 



Adams, C. M., "Our country roads" 596 



Alexander, A. S., "Help for the lame horse" 599 



Alfalfa in Scott county, Chas H. L.au 637 



A new sheep farming in the corn belt, Jos. E. Wing 526 



Bees, culture and do they pay, A. L. Hyzer 584 



Cattle feeding, H. L. Leonard 623 



Colbert, Prof. Geo. H.. "The ploughman's education" 570 



Corn conclusions 593 



Corn culture, D. L. Pascal 588 



Covered yards for cows 625 



Cows and the dairy, C. H. Werder 620 



Curryer, Dr. J. C, "Weaning, feeding and handling colts" 659 



Digestible nutrients in feeding stuffs 626 



Doane, C. F., "Systems for keeping milk and butter records" 611 



Evans, D. Z., Jr., "Mule breeding profitable" 605 



Financial statement of county farmers* institutes in Iowa 662 



Forney, J. W., "Swine raising and feeding" 629 



Foot-rot in sheep, John R. Mohler 477 



Function of agricultural college, D. B. Parshall 543 



Help for the lame horse, A. S. Alexander 599 



Hoch. August, "Poultry raising" 648 



Horse breeding on the farm 658 



How I came to go to college at sixty, Asa Turner 578 



Howson, U. J., "What is up-to-date farming?" 568 



Hutchins, I. "V^^, "The value of an agricultural education to the farmer 



boy" 549 



Hyzer, A. L., "Bees, culture and do they pay?" 584 



Iowa's great farming opportunities. Prof. W. H. Stevenson 552 



Is farm land in Iowa at present prices a good investment? E. G. Preston 643 

 Johnson. Robert, "Should the young man who intends to become a 

 farmer spend two years or more in obtaining a college education or 

 should the time be spent in getting a financial start?" 566 



