The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1914-10-15
|0WA'S EXHIBIT
WILL Be winner
HAWkEYE STATE WILL ATTRACT
WORLD NOTICE At PANAMA
PACIFIC EXPOSITION.
STRONG AGENCIES At WORK

Greater Iowa Association and Panama
Pacific Commission Planning Expo
sitIon Of States PRODUCTS Which
VIII Rival or surpass Those Of
Other Commemorative
Iowa is going to make somebody sit
up and take notice when it gets it,
agricultural exhibits arranged at the
Panama-Pacific International EXPOSE
ton at San Francisco next year. The
Greater Iowa Association and the
Iowa Commission appointed by Gov
ernor Clarke is planning an exhibit
which they believe will be far more
| attractive and significant than the
exhibit OF any other state.
F. D. Steen of West Liberty is a
| member of the Commission and Is
chairman Of the Department Of Az
riculture. He is being assisted by
H. L. Eichling of the Iowa state col
lege at Ames. These two gentlemen
are busy looking over the state, con-
templating just what sort of exhibits
they will be able to present. They
are anxious to get in touch with farm
ers all over Iowa who have produced
something worthy of a special notice
or who have made records on crops,
which would be advantageous to
make known to the general public
Farmers Interested.
1--WE certainly hope that the farm
ers of Iowa will take deep interest
in our effort to show Iowa's agricul-
tural development at the Panama-Pa-
cific Exposition said Mr.. Steen to-
day. We have been talking among
ourselves about Iowas great crops,
but we have not spent enough time IN
telling the rest of the world about
them. The big Exposition out in San
Francisco next year will attract hun
dreds OF thousands of people. 1t will
attract at least one hundred thousand
former Iowans who are now living
in other parts of the country. 1t will
attract many people who may be in
terested in locating in Iowa. There is
nothing in this talk about the high
price OF Iowa land keeping the peo-
pie away. Land will always bring
what it is worth-nothing more.
Years ago the farmers of Germany
deserted their fatherland and came to
this country because, az they said,
the price of farm land in Germany
had gone up to 1925 and $3.50 an acre.
They said the price was too high and
that they would have to 60 where
they could get cheaper land.
THAT same land in Germany today
is worth s7OO and $500 an acre and the
Germans have stopped emigrating. re-
alizing at last that they can stay home
al. 8Snn
acre farms. All of the modern meth
DDS of agriculture will be displayed at
the Exposition and we want Iowa to
show what it has done in the past
ten years. And then we want lot
of our good farmers to go out to the
Exposition and see what has been
done elsewhere"
Chief National Industry.
1t is natural that the agriculturists
should worthily signalize their inter
est In this great Exposition and send
the offerings of their skill to cele-
brate the chief national industry,
while other nations, even those IN
which other crafts have gained as
cendancy, will present in. its best
light this most honorable branch OF
labor. Satisfactory exhibits of farm
products will be collected, not only
from the United States, but from re-
mote corners of the earth; and their
exhibition will justify the prominence
conceded to this dominant factor IN
the wealth Of the world Many coun-
tries in their desire to attract settlers
to their lands will have strong in
centive to make splendid exhibits. 1t
is certain, therefore. that the exhlb-
it's of the Palace of Agriculture will
be Of an extent and character never
before seen.
The gigantic strides made in the
science of agriculture and its useful
application throughout the world give
the Exposition a wealth OF material
from which to choose. At least one
fourth OF the area Of this large Pal
ace will be devoted to the exhibit OF
farm and agricultural implements and
farm machinery, which will include
appliances for irrigation and drain
land. The improved methods in ag-
riculture will be carefully illustrated.
The tobacco exhibit will show the
methods OF growing, the manufactured
product, and the characteristics OF
the leaf raised in the different parts
of the world. A complete synop-
sis of the production Of cotton from
the seed to it's delivery at the mill
door will be featured. Vegetable and
animal food products, methods en-
ployed in their production. farinace-
Gus products, bread and pastry, Will
form a most interesting and instruc-
tive group. The processes OF han
ding milk for making butter and
cheese. dry milk. etc., will be shown
in the Dairy Exhibit, as well as the
methods of pasteurizing and steriltz-
ing. The wine exhibit Of the world
will be shown in that building.