44 TWENTY-SECOND ANNUAL YEAR BOOK— PART II 



Secretary A. R. Corey: Mr. Chairman and Gentlemen of the Convention: 

 For the past two or three years it has been customary for the secretary 

 to have his report printed and distributed at the convention. The same 

 policy has been followed this year, so there is not a great deal for me to 

 say. My report was distributed to the County Fair Managers Convention 

 yesterday. 



There are just one or two things I would like to say. It was only a few 

 years ago that our Board hoped and anticipated an attendance at the Iowa 

 State Fair of 300,000. That figure was reached in 1918 and in 1919 we 

 went over 400,000. The point I want to bring out is this, the attendance 

 at the Iowa State Fair this year was almost 300,000, which w^as a wonderful 

 attendance considering the population of the city in which the fair is held. 



In regard to the finances of the fair, as I stated yesterday, after the close 

 of the low-a State Fair and we checked up with the treasurer w^e found out 

 we just a little more than broke even. Some of us thought we had not 

 made a very good showing, but at our convention in Chicago last week we 

 talked with fair managers from all parts of the United States and we 

 rather congratulated ourselves to think we came out with a small balance 

 on the right side of the ledger. One state fair at the national meeting last 

 week reported a loss of $142,000 in operating expenses, and any number 

 of them lost or showed a reduction in receipts over 1920 and some as much 

 as fifty per cent. In my report here I have tried to cover all the different 

 departments of the fair. The itemized financial statement covers all of the 

 receipts and expenditures. There are additional tables covering ticket 

 sales. I have tried to reflect the true financial condition of the fair. 

 There is also published in the back part of this report a copy of the 

 treasurer's report and also a certificate from the bank showing the balance 

 on hand the first of the month. 



REPORT OF SECRETARY. 



A. R. COREY. 



For Iowa Department of Agriculture and the Iowa State Fair and 



Exposition. 



For the convenience of the delegates in attendance at the County 

 Fair Managers Convention and the State Agricultural Convention, 

 I am submitting herewith a printed report covering the activities of 

 the State Board of Agriculture for the past year. 



A complete report covering the work of the Department of Agri- 

 culture will be made in the Iowa Year Book of Agriculture; also a 

 supplement to the Year Book containing the report of the stallion 

 registration division. 



