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Tables 1 and 2 set out the receipts and disbursements of the 

 fairs in detail. Table 3 shows the number of exhibitors at these 

 fairs, the number of head of live stock exhibited in the various 

 departments and the amount of cash premiums paid in each divi- 

 sion. Table 4 shows the attendance, number of paid admissions 

 at the outside gates; also the admission fees charged at the outside 

 gates and grandstand, and the number of admissions to the day 

 and night grandstand performances. 



The subject of rain insurance has been considered by a great 

 many fairs for the past few years, but up until 1920 not many of 

 the Iowa fairs took advantage of this protection against loss from 

 a rainy week. This year the fairs were asked to make a report 

 on this subject and we find eighteen fairs carried insurance in 

 various forms. The total amount carried was $221,500, the pre- 

 miums paid $18,359.80 and the losses collected by the twelve fairs 

 having rain was $56,811.17. It is needless to say that the rain in- 

 surance business in the state of Iowa was not very profitable from 

 the insurance companies' standpoint. The following tabulation 

 gives a list of fairs carrying insurance, the form of insurance, 

 amount carried, cost of insurance and the losses collected by these 

 fairs : 



Location 

 of Fair 



Form of 



Insurance 



Carried 



Amount of 



Insurance 1 Cost of Amount 

 Carried Insurance Collected 



Algona 



Clarinda 



Deeorah 



DeWitt 



Davenport 



Eldora 



P^lkader 



Fairfield 



Fort Dodge.— 



Hamburg 



Independence lExpense of Fair 



Mason City iTotal receipts ., 



Manchester Total receipts ,. 



Osage Expense of Fair 



Gate receipts $ 



Gate receipts 



Expense of Fair 



Total receipts 



Total receipts 



Total receipts 



Expense of Fair 



Gate and grandstand 



Expense of Fair 



Expense of Fair 



Perry- 

 Shenandoah... 



Vinton 



Webster City. 



Gate receipts 

 Gate receipts 

 Gate receipts . 

 Total receipts 



Total 



.'i:221, 500. 00 i$ 18,359.80 $ 56,811.17 



