Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-08-27
ELEVEN MAKE EXHIBITS THIS
YEAR AT STATE EXPOSITION
AT DIES MONIES.
NUMBER INCREASED BUT
BELOW EXPECTATIONS
Increase in Individual Farm Exhibits
Machinery Department Larger Than
Year Aso-Auto Men Back After
Staying Out Two Years-H orseshoe-
ing and Other Features.
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This is four more than last year. when
seven counties were represented. Last
year the EXHIBITS were confined 10
those counties which had county
agents, but this year new plan was
adopted in the hopes of interesting a
large number of the counties of the
state. The rule this year was that all
counties employing county agents and
counties organizing clubs or assoeia-
tons for the purpose of putting on an
exhibit We're eligible.
The counties having exhibits this
year and the men who worked up the
exhibits are as follows: Cerro Gordo.
A NJ. Avery; Muscatine, j. w Merrill;
Des Moines a. l.. Higgins; Linn, A. G..
Thurman Jasper, A. T. Moss; Wright
L. o Wise; Clinton. NJ. L. Mosher;
Montgomery, R. J. Davidson; Black
hawk, A A Burger; Henry Don Fish;
Greene, C. w. Davis
These county exhibits show the agri-
cultural conditions of the county and
what can be produced there. The ex-
hibts are judged on the quantity, va
riety and quality of the products shown.
The arrangements and decorations of
the exhibit are also taken into conSid-
GRAFTON in totaling up the points
There are not as many counties rep
resented in the county exhibit as II was
hoped would be. 1t is considered one
Of the best advertising opportunities
open to counties in this state. and yet
only two counties outside OF those hav-
Ing county agents made up an exhibit
In Minnesota this county exhibit is one
of the great features of the fair and
practically every county of the state is
represented The county winning
makes much of the advertising onpor-
tunity which winning first prize gives
Minnesota is. of course, aggressivelv
seeking settlers, especially northern
Minnesota, while in Iowa no such eff
fort is made. This. it is believed. ac
counts for the lack of interest of many
counties in the agricultural exhibit
More Individual Exhibits.
There are twenty-three individual
farm exhibits this year at the fair.
whereas last last year there were but
seventeen. This Is the largest number
OF entries ever made IN this class of
exhibits. Most of the old time exhibit
tors are at the fair again, while there
are a number of new ones. To put on
an exhibit in this competition If re-
CURES not only an expert in proauc-
ing crops for display purposes but also
In arranging the display There are a
number of farmers thruout the state
who have entered in this individual
display year after year and they have
become professionals, not only in grow
ing beautiful exhibits. but in arra,e
ing a winning display.
Machinery Exhibit Laroer.
The International Harvester Com
pany is back TO the fair with an ey
hibit this year after being out alto
eether last season but the COMPANY IS
not showing anything like the amount
OF stuff shown two years ago. Then
It had an immense circus tenn The
company made the circuit OF ell state
fairs that year but found this m cans
of advertising so expensive. e-peciallv
the cost OF shipping and Installing ex-
hibits that last year & made no ex-
hibits whatever. This year. however.
the company Is ont with a cornoara
lively small exhibit. The other big
harvester companies are not reprA-
sented.. The machinery exhibit in gem
eral. however is said ny the srnerir-
tendent. John Mullen. to re larger -han
last year wher trey had 3o- exhibit
ors II 1913 there were 341 exhibitors.
This year the automobile men are hacl,
With big display after having stayed
out two wears
Other Fair Features.
Last year the state fair nut on a
i10rseshoeing contest y was the 4rs+
time such a contest had ever been put
on IN this country Ii was a hard mat
ter to secure many entries as the av-
erage smithv is rot accustomed to be-
ing in the iimelight and fought Shv Of
getting into the contest 4 sufficient
number Of the craft. however. sum
moned I'D enough courage 10 get I'M
the game to make an interesting con-
test This year there are more entries
than year ago
One of the most enth1l siastic men
over this contest Is the fudge. DR. Jack
Setter, of Libertyville III a graduate
veterinarian and also a skilled sn7ithy
He loves horse and feels that 1t is
cruelty in the extreme to allow a horse
to go poorly shod There is a great
deal to be known about the horses
hoof and Or. Setter is a thorough stu
dent Of this subject
The doctor was so enthusiastic over
the success Of last years horsestoeine
contest and its educational possibilities
II
about the contest This was widely
published in horsesiioers journals and
the Iowa department of agriculture put
it in the 1914 Year Book.
Actually met farmers. owners OF
any number of horses, who would lead
you to believe that they did not know
that the ~hoof of the horse grew" said
Dr.. Setter in writing of this contest
THAT 1t was sensitive structure en-
dowed with the most delicate and
sensitive mechanism imaginable. and
that the least deviation from right. ir
working on It, not only INJURIES the foo,
alone but as the foundation Of the
whole body it renders the animal alb.
so1utely useless for the tine being. un.
=, til the harm done is remedied if pos.
eible. IN innumerable cases this is a
times Impossible, and the animal mus
either be destroyed, or. far worse
travel thru its miserable existence {
lifelong cripple.
'tOne rancher asked me to show hin
5ust where It was safe to drive nail
He said he did his own shoeing ant
that the only way he could tell tina
the nail was not going into the RICH
place was by the animal letting hin
know that 1t was being hurt. or b!
drawing blood. On asking him wha
he did after driving the nail into
sensitive part he laughed and said