St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1916-09-23
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LEWIS LETTER
Iowa farmer.
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Iowa farmer.
We next went to Des Moines, Ia.
to visit the Iowa State Fair. Here
our party learned more about fair
than we ever expected to know. We
saw the greatest collection Of ex-
hibits from the farm ever collected
dn the United States, as far as State
Fair is concerned: The hog barns
were very large and full OF hogs
valued at an enormous amount OF
money. Many of these hogs weighed
from 500 to 1000 pounds. One hog,
as I have said before. weighed 1861
pounds. This was the greatest col
lection Of hogs and all the finest
specimens imaginable. The greatest
curiosity in the hog line was In the
side show section of the fair grounds.
Here was looking thru the different
places of amusement and / came upon
q place where real Southern negro
was crying out, Come in and see de
razor-back hog-only 5 cents" and
seeing many people go in l too drift
ed in to see the sights. saw many
people gathered around large crate
pushing and showing to see the con-
tents. I finally got chance to see
and I found the whole excitement
was over a common, spotted. long
tailed, long-nose razor back hog.
We have hundreds of them in this
country, and / have inoculated many
mot as good as what these pepole
were considering freak or curiosi-
ty and paying to see it. This shows
what we know about hogs down here.
Some of these people were arguing
as to whether this was a hog or some
other kind of animal. l was very
sorry to make it known that this was
q real hog but / did not tell them
how many we had down here and
that we had nerve enough to call
them hogs.
The individual farm exhibits were
flne and the arrangement of all made
the Iowa products do justice to the
efforts Of the skilled farmers OF tina.
State. We saw more corn and fl
corn than can name here. One pile
OF corn In cone shape must have hid
five thouand bushels in it. All gold
en- yellow and up on the side was ar
ranged red ears of corn SO that. the
word 'Iowa" -vas spelled. II our
farmers here could have seen til:
fair as we saw it they would come
hack home with a determination to
turn over a new leaf in farming anG
get down to it in business way
where money could be made out OF
dt. The interest the men and women
2 OF that State take in their fairs is
what makes them success. They
take their children and go with their
products and stay with hem till the
fair Is over. They see that all is ar
ranged properly and that every ami
NAL and article gets back home all
o. X. Many of them go across the
country in their automobiles.
Let us take more interest in our
farms and fairs and we can show
good stuff, too.
The trip to Des Moines was one of
value to the entire Louisiana party,
and will do this State much good in
tho long run. We were entertained
W LILO 0AO0IOA AC0 AxAOAAOo NOAA&AAAe
tee," who took us over the city as
well as the fair grounds, and then
gave us a dinner at 1880 p. m.
Here we heard some speeches on the
greatness of Iowa, and some of our
party came back with the greatness
Of Louisiana. After both sides had
been heard, Mr.. Young, president c
the Greater Des Nome Committee,
suggested that Iowa send a party of
farmers to Louisiana to see what we
are doing down here. l insisted Oh
st. Tammany being remembered in
that visit, but my purpose was to get
some Of these men with their knowl-
edge Of farming to settle here with
us.
We next went to Ames, the seat
OF the Iowa A. & NJ. College. We
listened to some very fine lectures
OF interest to us here. We locke
over their experimental plots and
farm seed plots. This college makes