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IOWA DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



It will be noted that from a crude beg-inning the fair has 

 steadily grown until it now ranks as one of the greatest State 

 fairs in the United States. Entries to the number of one thous- 

 and, made by not more than two score of exhibitors at the first 

 State fair, have grown until they now number o\'er fifteen 

 thousand, representing about eight hundred exhibitors. 



Premiums in every department ha\e l)een increased from year 

 to year, with the result that the Iowa State fair ranks among 

 the first in number and high class of exhibits. To this must be 

 cttributed the success of the fair, for to succeed there must be 

 a well-lialanced exhibit. 







Live Stock Pavilion on State Fair Grounds. 



The management of the State fair is now under the control 

 of the State Board of Agriculture, the old State Agricultural 

 Society having been legislated out of existence by the Twenty- 

 eighth General Assembly, when the law creating the Department 

 of Agriculture was passed. 



Following is a list of officers and directors of the Iowa State 

 Agricultural society from its organization to the time it became 

 a department of the State, and of the officers and members of 

 die State Board of Agriculture from its creation to the present 

 time : 



