722 STATE BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. 



old barns at a cost of approximately $10,000.00 being the exact amount received from the 

 insurance company. The $375.00 received from the insurance company on damage to 

 Swine Barn K. fully took care of the repairs to same. In addition to the permanent im- 

 provements we have expended during the year $5,411.63, in repairs to our buildings and 

 equipment which were nuich needed and leaves them in fairly good condition, leaving 

 us more than a sufficient amount of money on hand to pay the $10,000.00 of bonds falling 

 due May 1st, 1917, and interest on our total bond issue. 



Insnra7ice: 



The buildings have been reinsured this year at a cost of $2,307.38. We also carry 

 Employes' Liability insurance with the Casualty Insurance Company of America at a 

 cost of $230.94, an increase over last year of $154.54, which was caused on account of 

 the extra men employed in the construction work. 



Aulo Races: 



We had three days of Auto Races, May 28th and 30th and June 4th, the gross receipts 

 of which amounted to $8,339.50. On July 4th we had Ford auto races, the gross receipts 

 of which were $2,156.90. During the year on June 11th, July 9th and August 13th we 

 leased the track to the Interstate Racing Association of Toledo, Ohio, for $400.00 pcx meet. 



It has been the custom of the Greenfield officers to charge us $25.00 per day for a town- 

 ship fee for races on our tracks, which has been paid by our Society in former years. When 

 they confronted us with a bill this year, I paid the first one under protest and took the 

 matter up with the Attorney General, who gave it as his opinion that we were not subject 

 to any township taxes for the operation of our races and I so notified the township officers, 

 since wliich time this tax has not been imposed upon us. 



Rental of Buildings: 



We received from the rental of Buildings during the year $15,896.50. We now have 

 contracts with the Studebaker Corporation, Maxwell Motor Car Company, Hupmobile 

 Company and the Dodge Bros. Auto Company, covering six months from October 15th, 

 1916, to April 15th, 1917, for a trifle over $11,000.00. We are storing a few cars for the 

 Reo-Mitchell and have space for from 400 to 500 cars, which no doulit will be occupied 

 at least a part of the season, in addition to the leases which are in efTect being extended 

 after April 15th, as they were last spring. 



Old Mill: 



During the year we made a contract with the Welcher Construction Company, covering 

 a period of ten years for the construction of an Old Mill at a cost to that company of about 

 $16,000.00, we to receive 20% of the gross receipts, which this year netted us $807.38. 



STATE EXHIBITS 



The following named State Departments made exhibits at our 1910 Fair, which were 

 very creditable and interesting to the pubhc in general. 



Michigan Fish Commission: 



The Fish Exhibit under the supervision of State Superintendent Bower, was held under 

 the west side of the Grand Stand and was far superior to that held in the same place last 

 year. 



Michigan State Prison: 



The Jackson prison exhibit was placed in the Machinery Hall and was certainly interest- 

 ing in an educational way to our vi-sitors. Much credit is due Warden Simpson for the 

 judicial, painstaking and conscientious work done along this line in behalf of our penal 

 institution. It goes to show that when the proper method is apphed in the handling of 

 any of the State institutions, there is a great opportunity for improvement over the old 

 system, and I am sure it was a means of imparting valuable information to the people 

 of our State concerning prison life. Tliis exhibit is worthy of special mention. 



