Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-08-08
Ten NILES Of STOCK
Stock Exhibit at the State
Fair Will be a Marve-
lous One
FEATURES OF THE FAIR
DiStinetly an Agricultural Exhibit
With Especial Emphasis on the
Live Stock Departmental Thous-
and Head of Horses and Nearly as
Many Cattle to Be Shown.
special to Times Republican.

Special to IimeS-Republlcan.
Des Moines, Aug. S.-If all the live
stock that will be on exhibition at the
Iowa state fair this year was put in a
parade single file it would stretch over
ten miles. The Iowa state fair is one
of the Iowa institutions that the peo-
pie are coming to be more proud of ev-
cry year. They have watched it's
growth from an enterprise of uncer-
tain stability to where hundreds of
thousands of dollars are being put into
permanent buildings and improvements
to be used for but two weeks of each
year for the state fair.
There are some features of the Iowa
state fair that places it in a class by
itself and one of these is the fact that
it is distinctly farmers fair, an agri-
cultural exhibit. There is not anoth-
er state fair in the United States that
has SO many head of horses and cat
tie as Iowa. This year the fair breaks
|all records by having 1000 head Of
horses, including those entered for the
races. No horse show ever has more
than 800 or 400 horses entered. No state
fair is in the same class with Iowa In
cattle there will be 500 head this year.
There are several hundred head Of
sheep entered and the number of hogs
which is limited only by the capacity
to take care Of them. is 5000 head.
Allowing 10 feet for the cattle and
horses and six feet each for the sheep
and hogs if all this live stock was put
single file in a parade it would reach
ten miles. 1t would reach twenty
times around the race track on the
state fair grounds or would make a
parade of twenty animals abreast one
time around the race track. AT no one
place in the country can farmer see
SO much Of the pure breed live. stock
together as at the Iowa state fair. and
the farmer who makes a careful study
of the live stock on exhibit this year
will need more than one day in which
to do it. A hurried look thru all the
stables will take nearly day.
Live stock, implements and crop
products make up the bulk of the state
fair. The farm implements will cover
about thirty acres, which is all the
ground that the management can spare
for it. 1t is probable that. the next
will make a purchase OF
about twenty acres of land north of the
present race track and provide for the
moving of the race track north to make
more room for implements.
) Within the last few days every effort
has been made to get q new barn COM
.plcted for the horse exhibit. 1t was
found that in spite of the new 1876 stall
barn erected last year that the capacity
of the barns was 1852 stalls short of the
capacity for handling the exhibits Of
this year There was but fifteen days
remaining till the fair but contractor
last year undertook to duplicate the
work this year and will erect the $780,
500 barn in fifteen days.
1t is becoming apparent to the friends
Of the state fair that before long there
will have to be a new stock pavilion
erected. The fact is that it is needed
now. The plan for many years has
been to have the cattla Judging every
forenoon and horse Judging every ev-.
ening. This worked very well when the
cattle exhibits numbered about 400
head and the horse exhibits about the
same number. Now with 500 head of
cattle and the same number Of horses
to be judged it is found that there is
not time enough to do it working a
half day each day during the fair on
each. Soon the fair management will
have to have a separate pavilion in
which,to judge the horses and devote
the present one exclusively to cattle.