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buildings which could not be completed, it was used this year as an exhi- 

 bition hall. When the other buildings are completed it will be used only 

 as rest rooms for the women and children. 



The following exhibits were displayed this year in the Woman's Build- 

 ing: Cut flowers and growing plants, bakery goods and oven products, 

 fancy work, and an exhibit of dried fruits which was lent by the Iowa 

 State College of Agriculture at Ames. On the first floor there were a 

 check room, information desk, women's retiring room and nursery. On 

 the second floor were the school exhibits, canned goods and. Red Cross 

 exhibits. The proceeds of the check room, amounting to $35, were given 

 to the Red Cross by the fair management. 



Due to the fact that all the buildings planned were not completed this 

 year some of the exhibits were displayed in tents. 



The agricultural department was placed in a large tent and this tent 

 v/as filled to its capacity. 



The chicken exhibits were also displayed in a tent. The premiums 

 were all won by a traveling exhibitor who brought a carload of chickens 

 to the fair and he had two or three birds entered in each class. He won 

 about $250 in premiums and the local people were afraid to exhibit their 

 chickens against this kind of competition. From experience this year 

 this kind of exhibits will be eliminated next year and, in the future, 

 competition for premiums in this department will be restricted to Clay 

 and adjoining counties. 



The cattle and hog barn was only partially built this year due to short 

 space of time for erection. The portion completed this year was two sides 

 which are 320 feet long and one end which is 225 feet wide. This build- 

 ing contained one hundred stalls and sixty pens. When completed this 

 building will be 225 feet wide at both ends and 350 feet long and surrounds 

 two judging courts. This year this building was used for the show 

 horses, cattle and sheep. Next year it will be used for the cattle and hogs. 

 A separate barn will be built for the horses and another for the sheep. 

 The hogs this year were displayed in a tent. 



There are two barns. One barn contains twenty box stalls. The stalls 

 are ten by twelve. The other barn is built in a double L shape. This 

 barn is forty feet wide and two hundred feet long containig eighty box 

 stalls. These stalls were only. eight by ten and at the fair time it was dis- 

 covered that they were too small and since the fair they have been en- 

 larged to ten by -ten, which resulted in a loss of one stall in every seven. 



The main entrance is made of stucco and consists of two towers fifty 

 feet apart. These towers are fourteen feet square and forty feet high. 

 Each tower has three stories, the first floor of each tower being used 

 as offices for the secretary and the treasurer and as ticket booths. The 

 other floors are used for store rooms. A large flood light is placed on 

 top of each tower to light the grounds. This entrance is set back one 

 hundred feet from the street and used for the pedestrians. To the north 

 and fifty feet closer to the street is the automobile and driveway en- 

 trance which consists of two towers twenty feet high set forty feet apart 

 and containing two gateways. The main entrances are beautiful pieces 



