Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-08-22
Many Exhibitors Turned Away
for Lack of Adequate
Barns and Space
MORE L,BERALIrY is NEEDED
Failure of Legislature to Make Liberal
Appropriations for Necessary Build
inss Great Handicap-Patronase
Would Be Increased Thereby-The
Night Attractions.
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Des Moines. Aug. eff the people
of Iowa could fully and really appre-
ciate that Iowa has the largest and
best agricultural exhibit in the world
in the world. mind you, and so far
as anyone knows in the universe as
well - and could awaken to the full
sense of pride in that fact the pat
ronage Of the state fair would be such
and the appropriations of the legisla-
ture would be such that 1t would be
utterly hopeless for any other such
institution to ever attempt to equal
that given annually in this state
The fair opened today full swing
with all buildings opened, all exhibits
in place. except 1000 head of hogs for
which there was no room, fifty head
of horses for which there were no
barns, lot of cows for which there
of farm machinery and Implements for
which there Is no ground space on
which they could be unloaded. The
horse races and all the shows, the
stock judging and everything else,
started this morning, when the gates
We're opened.
The thing that makes the Iowa
state fair the biggest in the universe
Is the fact that Iowa is the greatest
agricultural stretch of land in the uni
verse and has the shrewdest and most
capable lot of farmers and business
men to manage it. There are more
fine pure blood live stock In Iowa than
anywhere else and the owners want
: to exhibit in iowa so as to sell their
product to the Iowa farmers. And
the Iowa farmers are mighty glad to
farmer has his eyes ever wide open
as a prospective purchaser of the best
breeding animals his money will buy.
More LiberaIity Needed.
The thing that will keep the fair
the biggest is patronage-patronage
by individual attendance by the peo-
pie and patronage by the legislature
as we'll. What the Iowa state fair
needs is removal of the handicaps
that are placed upon it by the laek of
more and bigger buildings. 1t was a
shame that the legislature appropriated
but $75, 900 for the erection of swine
barn that will hold but little over half
Of the swine offered. Think of it,
1000 head of hogs turned away be-
cause there was no room and every
exhibitor who entered any hogs limited
to ten head.
Yesterday President Cameron and
Professor Curtiss, who is superinten-
dent of the horse department, spent
considerable time hunting over the
grounds to find out where to- erect
temporary barn to house fifty more
head of horses than there was room
for Last year the fair erected a.
$4,000 horse barn that holds 100 head
of horses This year when it was
found that there was not enough barn
room a duplicate of it was erected in
just fifteen days. 1t was found that
was not large enough so temporary
barn holding thirty-six horses was
built and still there were fifty head
of horses that had to be taken care
Of in more barns or turned away.
Exceeds All European Fairs.
"I have seen most of the European
fairs" said Professor Curtiss today,
"and I have this year the catalogs Of
all of them. They have all been held
except the one at Dublin. There is
not in all Europe a fair that is more
than so per cent of the exhibit here
in Iowa. The big horse shows of
New, York and Chicago could be lost
in our horse barns here Iowa has by
far the greatest agricultural exhibit
in the world"
All the profits each year from the
Iowa fair goes back into more pernan-
ent Improvements in the shape OF
barns and pavilions to take care of
the exhibits, but a penurious legisla-
ture that can scarcely be induced to
give decent consideration to the re-
quests of the state fair, has so linn
tied the appropriations from year to
wear that the fair is always much
bigger than the buildings.
The bigness of the state fair is in
the live stock, agricultural products,
and farm machinery. but there are as
great amusement features as there are
anywhere. Many other state fairs have
larger buildings, many OF them run
largely to amusements
The Night Show.
In the night show at the stock pavil-
ion this year there will be something
the like of which has never before
been seen in the west and which has
never been surpassed anywhere. The
first exhibit will be Monday night.
1t will be a horse show and animal
exhibit and will be in charge of Tom
Bell, the man who has managed the
big horse shows of Chicago and New
York and other places. fe is not to be
excelled in that line and he has
planned for the finest ever in the Iowa
production. There will be the parade
of the prize winning stock each night
between the other acts. There will he
regular horse show exhibits OF car