160 TWENTY-SECOND ANNUAL YEAR BOOK— PART III 



stuff you do not get very much education in the man. He gets 

 education but he is attracted by the attractions, and I consider, 

 and I guess we most all of us do, that one foremost attraction is 

 the races at the county fair. That is all I can say in the discus- 

 sion of Mr. Smollinger's article because he stated facts. 



Mr. Young: Just one question about judges, who would you 

 suggest to put in there, what class of men? 



Mr. Curtain : I would select men that own horses that are 

 not racing if I could not get anybody else. My idea would be 

 that you should send and get somebody that does know, that 

 makes a business of judging rases. That would be the ideal. 

 At Des Moines at the state fair we handle it in that way. We 

 have only one judge. We have a man, however, that is an ex- 

 pert, we pay him for it, and the result is we have very little trou- 

 ble. Where you have judges that do not understand it they may 

 make a ruling entirely wrong which they think is all right. My 

 thought is to have one single judge and pay him for his work. 

 I believe only one poor judge is better than three poor judges 

 because he is standing out there in the lime light and he cannot 

 divide the responsibility with two other fellows. 



President Hofifman : The discussion will be continued by Mr. 

 George White of Malvern. 



Mr. White : It is a little bit embarrassing for me to get up 

 following the two men who have just spoken on this subject. 



I think these gentlemen have covered the ground very thor- 

 oughly. Mr. Smollinger spoke about the price of harness horses 

 staying up and the other pure bred stuff decreasing. I guess we 

 can all very plainly see why that is. Everybody else has been 

 breeding pure-bred hogs and cattle, of draft horses there is not 

 much breeding, and a horse that was not good for a race horse 

 wasn't worth much for anything. Consequently fairs haven't had 

 good horses. Horses got very scarce, that is the reason prices 

 keep up ; nobody breeding them to speak of. The early fairs at 

 the races might have a good supply of horses, but after the mid- 

 dle of August you have got to go begging to get horses enough to 

 put on the program. We are all fair managers, all like to see sport, 

 and my suggestion .vould be in each community where you have 

 got a fair get a few of your members to go out and pick up a 

 g^ood brood mare and get somebody to get a stallion somewhere 



