Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-09-11
|ONA'S FAIR THE
BEST IN WORLD
Secretary Simpson Visits All
the Big Fairs and Makes
Comparisons
BUILDINGS ONLY EXCEPTION
Some States Have Better Structures,
But Their Fairs Are Not Equal to
le,wa-Hon. John cownie Predicts
Corn Crop Average 100 Per Cent, 40
Bushels to Acre.
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the big fairs of the country including
the Canadian fair at Toronto, John e.
Simpson, secretary of the Iowa fair
believes that Iowa has the best fair
in the world in everything but build
ings. I'VE measure up with all of
them and are better than any with the
exception Of buildings" said Mr.. Simp-
son today. The fairs at Toronto and
in Ohio are the products of years of
slow growth. The Ohio legislature has
Well provided for it in the way of
buildings and the Canadian govern
ment has provided for the Toronto fair
in buildings. The streets are all mac
adamized and guttered and the build
a most extraordinary impression on the
visitor. The buildings are all fire.
proof and they have buildings for
everything. At Toronto they have the
Process building in which all kinds of
machinery is seen in the process of
manufacturing articles. Then they
have another building to show such
machinery as engines and the like used
in various capacities. The Toronto fair
has a few more horses than the Iowa
fair did this year, but not the cattle,
sheep and hogs, and farm machinery.
On those points Iowa, believe, is the
peer. The Iowa fair is a better ball
flnced fair than either of those we saw.
OF course we learned many things at
both places. They handle the crowds
in the way OF transportation at both
places, having the open cars that can
be filled in few seconds and be on
their way.
There is peculiar thing impressed
me in Toronto and that is a greater
respect for the law and for authority.
We hunted all over the fair grounds
and made a special effort to find some
one smoking, and couldn't find one.
There is no law against smoking, but
signs posted conspicuously request
the people to refrain from smoking
while on the grounds and the people
respect the request. When you get
in a crowd there is no jostling, but
everyone moves on quietly and there
is never any fighting for place. Our
only draw back in Iowa is the fact
that the fair has grown so rapidly the
last few years that it has gotten en-
tirely away from us and has out
grown our facilities in the way of
buildings. But we expect to remedy
that as rapidly as possible and are
doing something every year."
AThere will be 100 per cent-forty
bushels to the acre-corn crop this
year." said John Cownie, Of the state
board of CONTROL today. "There is no
question but the crop will be Is to 20
per cent better than last year, but not
that much better than last years esti-
mates. The estimates were too high
last year, and now they don't know
what to do This years crop is better
than last, but to add Is per cent to last
years estimate would make it too high.
The thing that is making this years
crop is the stand. Everything grew
this wear. The corn matured we'll last
year, and we had mild winter, which
protected it. Corn will not stand long
continued cold weather. This talk
about early frost assisting in matur-
ing the crop is humbug. The longer
the frost stays away the better. Corn
this year is about two weeks behind,
and If we have no frost at all till the
first of November the corn will be the
better for it. I have watched fifty
crops of corn and the best crop l ever
saw harvested was when we had no
frost till in November Some people
seem to think that unless there is a
frost to stop the corn growing it will
never stop. Corn will grow till it ma
lures, and then it will stop and harden.
and the less interference from frost
the better. Last fall corn had a good
chance to mature and this year the
stand is about perfect. There are some
few places in the southern part Of the
state where it has been too dry, but
this is only in spots, and not extensive.
Last year all the corn on the 100000
acres could have been put or 100000
without crowding. OF course, tho
thinner the corn is the larger the
growth of the ears tends to be. The
corn crop this year will be one of the
best the state has eVo1 AdlSSO
The seventeenth annual meeting of
the Iowa Library Association at Ot-
tunlwa, October 10 to IL, is expected to
bring together some of the ablest Ii
brary workers in the country. The
opening session will be the afternoon
of Wednesday, the 10th. Miss Gertrude
stiles of Chicago who has a bindery
in the Fine Arts building, will discuss
library binding, and Miss Edna Ly-
man, of Oak Park, ILL.,, who taught liz
brary work among children at the
summer school at Iowa City, will talk
on "The Purpose of the Study Hour"
Prof. l.. H. Clark, of the Chicago Uni-
versity, will talk on Literature and the
Community" In addition, prominent
librarians. such as Miss Bessie Sar-
geant. of Dubuque; Miss Alice Tyler.
of the Iowa library commission; Miss