Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-09-02
SCOTCH AND CANADIAN VISITORS
TO IOWA SHOW MAKE COM
PARSONS.
IOWA STATE COLLEGE
HAS SPLENDID EXHIBIT
Shows Every phase of Farm Life, Soils
and Grains - Iowa Man Purchases
Sheep at Fair and Thereby Fails
to Secure Coveted Ribbons-W. c.
Brown to Aid Denver Fair.
10 Times-Republican.

Special to Times Republican.
Des Moines, Sept. 1.-Two students
from Scotland who are here to enter
Iowa State College of Agriculture at
Ames when school opens next week
told Dean Curtiss. of the agricultural
department. that the Iowa state fair is
greater in number and quality of ex-
hibits of livestock than any of the big
fairs in Europe and they have seen
them all. They are especially taken
with the exhibits of horses and cattle.
They are spending this entire week at !
the state fair making a careful study |
of every department and exhibit on the
grounds.
In addition to this complimentary
criticism of the Iowa state fair Mr.
/ Miller of the Toronto, Canada. pro-
vincial fair is in DeS Moines visiting
the fair to get ideas for the Toronto
fair. He is especially impressed with
the arrangement of the grounds and
the barn plans for the livestock, which
latter he will copy at the Toronto fair.
The greatest features of the Iowa
state fair each year are the agricultural
exhibits The man or woman who comes
to the Iowa fair to be amused gets
little besides the band music and
merry GO round, the horse races and
some side shows and freaks. The In
dian village this year has attracted
considerable attention but otherwise
the Iowa fair is an agricultural exhibit
no 90 CITY nyoCy
in any other feature. In side shows
and shoot the chutes some other
states take the lead but in agricultural
exhibits Iowa takes a back seat to
none.
Aside from the stock and machin-
cry exhibits the strong features of this
wears state fair are the farm crops
exhibit in the agricultural building
and the state agricultural exhibit in
the building on the hill. The farm
crops exhibit in the agricultural build
ing was prepared under the direction
of Professor Crossley, of Iowa State
College, and has proven such an at
traction that arrangements are being
made to use it in the short courses
conducted in different parts of the
state during the winter. The exhibit
consists of grains grown in the various
counties of the state with samples of
the grain both before and after
threshing with samples Of the
soil in which it was grown
and information as to the
methods used in growing it. The ex-
hibit has been so arranged and planned
that it is a liberal education to any
farmer who makes a careful study and
Il examination of il.
] In the college exhibit there is a dis
play showing the experiments being
! made by the college and by the expert
mental stations in grain growing but
the exhibit which occupies the entire
building formerly used for the woman's
rest building includes exhibits on prac-
tically every phase of farm life and
4 activity. There is an exhibit of the
4 soils showing in map made of the
dirt from the various sections of the
state exactly the soil consistency Of
4 every county. In boxes holding ex-
\ actly one ten thousandth of an acre
there are samples of the principal soils
found in Iowa and in glass recepticles
the exact amount of nitrogen and
phosphorus to be found in each. There
are other samples with glass recep-
ticles showing just the amount of
moisture to be found in each after the
various kinds of cultivation and treat
ment. Other samples of soil showing
the results from manuring and rota-
ton of crops on the yield.
The exhibits heretofore have run
mostly to corn. For that reason the
exhibit this year is devoted more large
, ly to small grain and the experiments
n of the extension department in oats
a to get varieties that will not lodge and
q will resist rust are shown. There is
4 a horticultural exhibit with specimens
81 of the insect pests of the state; and ex-
hibit of the weed pests of the state
i The college has instituted four years
4 farm engineering course and one booth
of the exhibit is devoted to that. The
8 highway commission of the state also
has an exhibit showing the latest APP
proved road building and bridge build
ing.
An Iowa man came to the state fail
this year determined to start in the
sheep business. He hunted thru the
sheep pens till he had found a flocl
that just suited him and then he
- hunted up the owner and asked thu
: price. A price was given and hi
, pulled out his pocketbook to pay owe
= the money. AT this point the owner
thought things were going too fast ant
y he said something about delivery aftel
u the fair. The buyer insisted on it
being cash transaction right then
and it was. Later he learned that be
cause the sale was made before tn
judging took place the sheep could no
be judged this year. AS result h
was cut out of getting any ribbons TO
the flock.
One Of the exhibits that is of con
siderable worth to the people of low
this year is the poultry exhibit of tn
state agricultural college in the poul
try building. 1t shows the latest ap
proved methods of poultry house build
ks ing and care Of poultry as develope
u at Anes.
ne Ex-Governor Garst has accepted tn
invitation to deliver the Labor day ad
Va dress for the Tri-City Labor Con
ns gress Of Clinton, De Witt and Fulton
which will be held in Clinton.
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