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Cup and Saucer — First, Chester Hill. 



Syrup Pitcher — First, Fern B. Miller; second, Chester Hill. 



Jardinere — First, Chester Hill. 



Other Than Named — First, Fern B. Miller; second, Chester Hill. 



GRAPHIC AND PLASTIC ARTS. 



Oil Painting- — First, Jean Dayton West; second, Claude Patterson; third, 

 Edna Patzig-; fourth, Harriet Macey. 



Water Color Painting- — First, K. K. Van Duzee; second, Edith Bell; 

 third, Claude Patterson; fourth, Louise Or-wig. 



Black and White or Monochrome Painting — First, Claude Patterson; 

 second, Theodora Aulmann; third, Louise Orwig; fourth, Gladys Corbit. 



Posters of Pictorial or Decorative Design — First, Gladys Corbit; second, 

 Tlieodora Aulmann; third, Claude Patterson; fourth, Armenia Sampey, 

 Newton. 



Collection Not Less Than Six or More Decorative Designs Other Than 

 Pictorial — First, Harriet Macey; second, Theodora Aulmann; third, Louise 

 Orwig; fourth, Claude Patterson. 



JUNIOR CLASS GRAPHIC AND PLASTIC ARTS. 



Oil Painting — First, Harold Oldfield, Des Moines; second, Ruth Gray, 

 Des Moines. 



Water' Color Painting — First, Bertha Shore, Des Moines; second, Ruth 

 Gray; third, Lucile Bennison; fourth, Margrery Jones, Des Moines. 



Black and White or Monochrome Drawing — First, Margery Jones; second, 

 Ruth Gray; third, G. Bennison; fourth. Bertha Shore. 



Collection Not Less Than Six Original Designs, Other Than Pictorial — 

 First, Ruth Gray; second, Margery Jones; third, G. Bennison. 

 Press Reports of the 1918 FAIR— 



THE 1918 IOWA STATE FAIR 



The lowu Homestead. 

 Production, conservation and patriotism were the keynotes of the 1918 

 Iowa State Fair. Iowa farmers bid fair to produce the largest and most 

 valuable crops this year ever known. Already there are evidences a- 

 plenty that the value of the hay, wheat, oats, barley and rye crops pro- 

 duced in Iowa this year will exceed the value of the same crops of last 

 year by fully $40,000,000. Even with the southern part of the state pro- 

 ducing but a fragment of the anticipated corn crop (because of long con- 

 tinued drouth) there in good reason to believe that Iowa's field crops will 

 approximate a billion dollars this year for the first time in the state's 

 history. Production is near its apex on Iowa farms this year; Iowa farmers 

 came to the fair prepared to rejoice and to learn how to make this year's 

 yields continue and increase next year. But this was not all. A feeling 

 that great as are the crops produced, there is need of saving every bit of 

 foodstuff is abroad throughout the state. A prodigal people are becoming- 

 frugal; a spendthrift people are becoming thrifty. That is one reason 

 why the classes which taught farm house-wives how to use substitutes for 

 wheat and butter and sugar were crowded all day long at this year's fair, 

 why the crusade for food conservation was advanced by the state fair as 

 nothing- else has advanced it since the war began. But even this was not 

 all. There was still another and a higher-sounding keynote. It was that 

 of patriotism. Last year there were some three or four thousand Iowa 

 boys encamped at the fair. They woi-e the khaki, but they had not seen 

 active service abroad. One day they passed in review before Governor 



