PART XIII 



IOWA STATE FAIR AND EXPOSITION 



1913 



Press Reports and Live Stock Awards 



Results in Boys* Judging and Girls* Cooking Contest 



PRESS REPORTS. 



The Iowa Homestead, Des Moines, Iowa. 



The Iowa State Fair is not an event, it is an institution. It is a uni- 

 versity broader In its scope and more widespread in its appeal than the 

 state's institutions of higher learning at Ames, Iowa City and Cedar Falls, 

 excellent as these are. It is a clearing house of agricultural and in- 

 dustrial ideas. It is an exposition of the many and divers things which 

 have united to make Iowa one of the really rich and great states of the 

 nation, a state which has taken the lead in the inception of political 

 reforms, in agricultural productiveness and in the high quality and 

 standards of citizenship. For fifty-eight years the Iowa State Fair has 

 been growing in popularity and usefulness until it stands, in 1912, at the 

 very pinnacle of its educational appeal and all-round value. Designed 

 originally to call attention to the agricultural greatness of the state, 

 it has grown in scope until today it emphasizes the fact that while 

 Iowa is a great farm state, it is year by year taking a rank equally high 

 for its manufactures and its cultivation of the fine arts of industry. 

 The 1912 Iowa State Fair, held at Des Moines last week, emphasized 

 anew that "in all that is good, Iowa affords the best." Such a diversity of 

 displays, viewed by so many people of such a high quality of citizenship 

 and showing such an advanced state of prosperity and progressiveness, 

 was never before witnessed in Iowa or any other state of the grain belt. 

 Attended by record-breaking crowds, with almost ideal weather condi- 

 tions prevailing and with a greater number and a greater variety of 

 displays than ever before, the 1912 Iowa State Fair passed into history 

 as the most successful, the largest attended and the most educational 

 of any of the fairs in the entire series. 



