790 



IOWA DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 



Boots of Chantilly 3d, the grand champion female, is in about the same 

 class. Daresay Daisy the junior champion, is a beautiful heifer of su- 

 perior quality. 



CHAMPION GUERNSEY COW 

 Iowa State Fair and Exposition, 1910 



IN THE SWINE PENS. 



Some contraction in numbers brought the list of hogs in the pens this 

 year down to 2,200, which is 700* less than the final count a year ago. 

 General contraction of breeding operations appears to have been the prin- 

 cipal cause of the shortage, although some exhibitors cut down the size 

 of their shipments to reduce the risk of contracting disease. With pure- 

 bred hogs selling relatively low in comparison with stockyards prices 

 there is no temptation to assume risks in order to exploit the stock or 

 secure buyers. Then too, a ready local trade has already absorbed an 

 unusual proportion of the surplus pigs of both sexes which ordinarily are 

 brought along to the fair to be sold. 



While the sale pigs were not as numerous as usual there was an im- 

 provement in their average quality which was gratifying to the fair offi- 

 cials and to those exhibitors who pride themselves on maintaining the 

 high standard of their favorite breed in every respect. There is small 

 profit in bringing cheap pigs along to be peddled at the fair and breeders 

 are finding it out. The comparison between the inferior pig and the 

 real choice one is too readily made when they are quartered in adjoining 

 pens. In a natural way the much agitated question of regulating the 

 consignments of sale pigs seems to be thus solving itself to the credit of 



