The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1914-11-12
NOW FOR A BIG
IOWA CORN SHOW
SMALL GRAIN EXHIBIT AT gAMEe
THIS WINTER TO BE BEST
in HISTORY OF STATE.
NEW ASSOCIATION GETS BUSY
Greater Iowa Organization Working
With Iowa Corn and Small Grain
Growers-May Send Special
Exhibit Cars Around y. s.


Growers-May Send Special
\ Exhibit Cars Around y. s.
Undoubtedly the big corn and small
grain exhibit contest to be held al
Ames next winter will be the greatest
ever held in Iowa, and of course the
biggest ever held in the United States.
The fine crops which are promised
right now will have something to DO
with this-but not all. A new eie-
ment is entering into this big and
small grain show.
A new force is behind the exhibit
this year-the Greater Iowa assoc1a'
ton is cooperating with the Iowa
! Corn and Small Grain Growers asso-
citation. The secretary at Clinton Is
doing all he can to create interest IN
the show to be held at Ames and in
cidentally the Greater Iowa assocla-
ton is paying part Of the bills.
I'VE feel we are not going out OF
our way at all to help the Corn and
| Small Grain Growers association,
said Secretary Clum. We have been
| in close touch with the officers OF the
! Grain association ard they have asked
us to cooperate. We feel 1t is just
as much our duty to help make the
corn and grain shows successful as 1t
is to build good roads or to see that
Iowa is properly advertised In the
East and across the ocean, in order
that we may attract new industries,
big factories, employ lots of men-and
advertise SO we may bring into Iowa
men to develop agriculture to Its very
| highest degree. Not that the men we
have today are not able to do this, but
we need more men, rather than suffer
a loss in our population.
"A successful corn and grain show
this winter is going to mean more
than it ever has in Iowa's history. We
are going to endeavor to preserve the
prize-winning exhibit and make per-
manent exhibit of them. The asso-
citation is considering today the pos.
I sibility of securing three or four ex.
hibit cars such as are being used by
some of the other states, notably Min.
nesota, Oregon and Washington. In.
asmuch as these other states are COM
ing into Iowa with their exhibit cars.
we see no reason why we should not
go into those states and into every
other state in the Union with cars
showing what Iowa is doing along
lines of agriculture.
Posters Sent Out.
THAT is why we have undertaken
| to cooperate with the Corn and Grain
association, sending out all over Iowa
thousands of posters 18 inches wide by
! "a inches long, calling attention to the
big show at Ames and Offering $1,000
in cash premiums for ten ears of corn
and thousands of dollars of machinery
as premiums in the other classes.
There will be no auction sale this
year in connection with the show :
Ames, but all exhibits will be retu.
| to the owners That is, all exhib!.-
! except those of sufficient merit to be
| included in the permanent exhibit the
I Greater Iowa association proposes TO
! make. We believe we can secure the
cooperation of the owners OF prize
winning exhibits, to an extent which
will permit US to show the entire
country Just what Iowa can do. 1t is
with this exhibit in mind that we are
encouraging the corn growers ard the
grain growers to do their very best
! and make the show at Gnes this win
ter one that will live long time in
the memory Of those who are inter
ested in lowas agricultural prosperity.
Plan Now.
"The poster calls on the farmers Of
Iowa to plan and prepare their exhibits
Immediately, and to be sure to prop
erly select and store their small grain
and grass sheaf material. The Corn
and Small Grain Growers association
| will have a booth at the state fair
and will endeavor to do a great deal
Of work at that time toward securing
the exhibits for Ames and for the spe-
cial cars which the Greater Iowa as
sociation hopes to put out. Also the
| secretary Of the Greater Iowa associa-
ton will have headquarters at the AID.
ministration building during the state
fair and he, too. will do what he can
to create statewide interest in the
! exhibits.
And while we are on this subject,
we might as well ask the farmers OF
the state to have in mind the exhibits
| of all of Iowa's products. II we are
enabled to put these exhibit cars in