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Mr. Morris: The question of privileges has not been discussed 

 — I mean the class of privileges that the county fairs should give 

 an exclusive right to. Year before last at our fair there were two 

 merry-go-rounds ; they paid a fee of $50 each. Last year only one 

 showed up. The general impression is that the one that did not 

 show up probably got $25 for staying away. We could readily 

 have gotten one hundred dollars if we had granted the exclusive 

 privilege to one. 



Mr. N^owlin : In my experience there are very few privileges 

 that could be sold exclusiveh^ without getting us into trouble. 

 Some things, however, must ]je sold in that way. 



ELECTION OF OFFICEKSi 



Mr. Insley was placed in nomination for President, and was 

 elected by unanimous vote. 



Mr. Robert Mitchell, of Princeton, was elected Vice-President. 



Mr. W. M. Blackstock, Lafayette, was elected Secretary. 



Mr. Nowlin announced that Dr. J. IST. Hurty, Secretary of the 

 State Board of Health, wished to address the Association. 



DR. HURTY'S ADDRESS. 



Gentlemen of the Association— The last Pure Food Law which was 

 passed in 1899 makes the State Board of Health the authority for its en- 

 forcement, and the Secretary of the State Board of Health is named in 

 the law as the State Food Commissioner. I have been making a great 

 many investigations and studies over the State in regard to food adul- 

 teration, and feel modestly certain that I have some facts which will 

 interest you very greatly. Certainly I can present some facts that affect 

 your pockets most materially, though perhaps they do not affect the 

 pockets of the farmers so much as they do the city people. Few people 

 realize the extent of food adulteration. We find it on every hand. I sat 

 down to a breakfast the other morning which I called a "paint breakfast," 

 because of the adulterating matter in the foods that were presented. 

 First, we had stewed dried beef, and that dried beef had coloring matter 



