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and District Fairs than any other state in the United States. The Iowa 

 State Fair is one of the leading and greatest State Fairs in the United 

 States. At the meetings of the International and American Association 

 of Fairs and Expositions Mr. Charles Cameron, President of the Iowa 

 State Fair, is considered a big man in fair business. His friendship Is 

 fostered and his advice and opinion is asked for by all fairmen. 



"Brother Secretaries, in summing the whole matter up, just stop to 

 think that the following gentlemen were formerly Iowa county fair sec- 

 retaries: Charles Cameron, President; J. P. Mullin, Vice President, and 

 E. J. Curtin, Superintendent of Speed of the Iowa State Fair. I will say 

 that is some representation from the County and District Fairs of Iowa 

 on the State Board of Agriculture. 



"I would also recommend that this Association have a resolution drafted 

 and have the same sent to the Chicago daily papers, and the Des Moines 

 Register and Leader, and ask them to publish the race summaries of the 

 Iowa Fairs. And after we have secured this co-operation from the papers 

 please, Mr. Fair Secretary, co-operate with the papers and send them your 

 race summaries. 



"In closing I would like to recommend that this Association again adopt 

 a plan for the holding of a spring meeting. Arrange to hold said meeting 

 at a central point, say here at Des Moines, and all try and attend this 

 spring meeting." 



It was moved by Mr. White and carried that the report be 

 adopted, received and filed. 



President Hoffman : Next on the program is the report of the 

 Legislative Committee by Mr. E. S. Estel, of Waterloo. 



Mr. Estel: 

 Mr. President, Fellow Secretaries and Guests: 



In making a report of the Committee it is quite necessary and essen- 

 tial, I believe, to review a little history of how it came about that the 

 Legislative Committee was appointed and assigned to these tasks. 



Mr. E. W. Williams of Manchester at the last meeting gave some very 

 good reasons why the fairs of Iowa deserved and should have state aid. 

 The idea grew with the district managers and the officers of your organ- 

 ization and, just before the holidays, if my memory is correct, a meeting 

 was called in this room for the purpose of considering a definite plan 

 of campaign and to endeavor to increase the state aid for the fairs. At 

 that meeting it was decided, after a great deal of discussion, that the 

 fairs of Iowa should ask for state aid to the extent of eighty per cent of 

 the first thousand given for premiums to agriculture and live stock at 

 the various fairs, seventy per cent of the second thousand, sixty per cent 

 of the third thousand and forty per cent of the remainder, with a maximum 

 of five thousand to any one fair. I might say that that was a very beauti- 

 ful dream, and those who were here returned and dreamed. We came 

 later on to face a condition which Iowa has seldom had, a condition which 

 made it almost impossible for the legislature to divide up the funds they 



