100 BOARD OF AGKICULTURE. 



Mr. Mitchell : That has been tried. We have been able to stop 

 most of them and have taken the bottles away from them. We 

 usually know them. They can not bring much of it in and drink 

 it on the grounds. It is easy to detect a man selling whisky. We 

 have men to watch for them, and these men usually get the 

 offenders. 



We have a great deal of satisfaction out of our dinner tables. 

 The tables are conducted by the church people. We do not charge 

 them much for the privilege, but we require them to furnish good 

 meals. We give them all the help they want, but we require them 

 to furnish such meals that when our people go there and pay for 

 it they get a good, wholesome dinner. 



Mr. Blackstock : Do you require privilege people to pay in 

 advance at the Harrisburg Fair, as you do at the State Fair ? 



Mr. ISTowlin : ISTo, we do not. 



Mr. Blackstock : Do you think that rule could be observed by 

 the county fairs ? If it could be observed it would simplify the 

 work of the fair very much. If that rule was to be adopted all 

 the fairs of a circuit or of a vicinity ought to observe it, so that 

 the privilege people would understand it before they came. If a 

 rule of that kind is to be adopted by any number of fairs it ought 

 to be made as general as possible, and I should like to hear an 

 expression of opinion on this subject. 



Mr. Mitchell : That was one of the things I meant when 1 

 spoke of uniform treatment. I was superintendent for eight 

 years, and I never put a man's name down for a concession until 

 the money was paid. They always have the money, and if you ask 

 for it you will get it every time. It does not do to let them slip 

 along without paying until the fair is over, for every once in a 

 while some of them will get away without paying you. 



Mr. ISTowlin : I will give you my experience in that line. When 

 I first suggested that in my report as Superintendent of Privileges 



