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money home with him. A fair of this kind will prove very 

 beneficial to a community. 



Our money is distributed among the farmers and not to race 

 horses, and any one can see the great improvement in the stock 

 in this community in the last seven years. 



We have no gambling of any kind on the grounds, not 

 even these little spindle games for the children to get started to 

 gambling. We have one of the best < concession men in the 

 State, and if they set up their stand and their "layout" doesn't 

 suit somebody will have to "shut up shop." By this means we 

 have the hearty co-operation of all the best people of the commu- 

 nity. They know they can come and bring their children with- 

 out temptation on every hand. 



We would say, in conclusion, to organize a county fair get 

 as many farmers as possible interested, get a live board of direc- 

 tors, make your premiums as large as possible, do not try to lay 

 up too much — only a small amount for a rainy day. Keep the 

 gambling and bad characters off your grounds and we think you 

 can make it go. 



STATE AID FOR COUNTY FAIRS. 



(W. L. Nelson.) 



The Forty-seventh General Assembly of Missouri appro- 

 priated $30,000 per annum, or so much thereof as might be nec- 

 essary, for the purpose of aiding county fairs. The law provides 

 that each county fair or agricultural society within the State of 

 Missouri shall be entitled to receive thirty per cent (30 per cent) 

 of the total amount of premiums paid at such annual fair or 

 society for the exhibits of horticulture, agriculture, poultry, live 

 stock, fancy work, school exhibits and domestic and mechanical 

 arts, etc. The provisions as set forth in section 2 of said act are 

 as follows: 



On or before the 15th day of November of each year the president and secretary of each 

 county fair or agricultural society within the State of Missouri, and claiming the benefit of 

 any such appropriation, shall file with the Secretary of the State Board of Agriculture a sworn 

 statement of the actual amount of cash premium paid at the fair of the current season, which 

 must correspond with the public offer of premiums, and a further sworn statement that at 

 such fair all gambling and gambling devices of whatsoever kind, and the sale of intoxicating 

 liquors, have been prohibited and excluded from grounds of such county fair or agricultural 

 society, and all adjacent grounds under their authority or control. Such statement shall 

 be accompanied by an itemized list of all premiums paid upon such thirty per cent premiiim 

 as claimed, and a copy of the published premium list of such fair, and a full statement of 

 receipts and expenditures for the current year, not including the speed list, duly verified by 

 the secretary of such fair or agricultural society. The President and Secretary of the State 

 Boardof Agriculture shall thereupon file such statement, together with a recommendation 



