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IOWA DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



judging of Cotswolds was occasioned by the rain leaking and blowing 

 through the pens and wetting their fleeces. There was a healthy, en- 

 thusiastic tone to the trading consummated by flockmasters during the 

 fair. 



A Prize Winner at the Iowa State Fair and Exposition 1907. 



SHKOPSHIRES. 



It was probably the stoutest show of Shropshires that has been seen in 

 years at a State fair. Imported and home-bred sheep in the finest bloom 

 which fitters can give competed, making every class highly interesting 

 and instructive to spectators. Prof. J. A. McLean of the Iowa State Col- 

 lege, Ames, was the judge. 



THE HORSE DEPARTMENT. 



Much of the interest in the live stock section inhered in the draft horse 

 exhibit. It occupied the morning hours and the pavilion was always full 

 of interested spectators, while as many as could crowd along the arena 

 rail held tenaciously onto their positions. In this department, under the 

 direction of Prof. C. F. Curtiss of Ames, a class for American carriage 

 horses has been added and four more classes have been given to saddle 

 horses. The ponies have received additional recognition, and in all the 

 more important classes cash prizes have been increased from three to five 

 and six. Stall fees in this section have been reduced about 50 per cent 

 since the last fair and altogether the conduct of the department has been 

 •quite in keeping with the needs of exhibitors. The judging has been 



