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Each premium winner should be required to appear in a grand premium 

 parade on the last day of the fair, and notice of this should be printed on all 

 entry blanks for live stock, and at the head of each of these departments in 

 the published premium list. 



I think from the general expression of not only our visitors, but of the 

 State officers, that the Coliseum should be extended at least 100 feet, thereby 

 making sufficient room for the ever increasing numbers on this, the greatest 

 exhibition ground in the world. This can be done at small cost, and I think 

 the next General Assembly will gladly provide the means. 



Respectfully submitted, 



A. D. Barber, 



Superintendent oj the Coliseum. 



Reports were made by chairmen of standing committees as follows: 



FEINTING. 



lo the State Board oj Agriculture. 



Gentlemen:— During the year 1901 the sum of $4,759.11 was expended for 

 printing and stationery, posters, lithographs, etc., as follows: 



The premium lists of the fair, as well as the official catalogue of the fair 

 were printed without cost to the board. 



Sixteen, three and one sheet posters advertising the fair were printed and 

 widely distributed over the State, and the newspapers published much valu- 

 able information in regard to that exhibition. 



The four annual crop reports were promptly issued, as well as the live 

 stock and fertilizer reports. 



The expenses incident to the work were distributed as follows: 



Respectfully submitted, 



J. K. DiCKIRSON, 



Chairman Printing Committee. 



CROP REPORTS. 



2o the Illinois State Board of Agriculture: 



Gentlemen— The work of the department of agriculture along this line 

 presents few changes from year to year. Our regular crop reports, four in 

 number, were issued at the specified times, with one or two special bulletins, 

 called out by the ''scare reports" in regard to the damage done to the corn 

 by the drought and heat. 



Our inability to obtain from the assessors figures as to the area and yield 

 of crops, etc., on which to base our reports, handicaps us in making up our 

 figures, and renders them of less value than they should be. 



