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your case, for instance, do you have automobiles parked outside and 

 necessary for people to out and get lunch and bring it in? 



A Member : We park inside the grounds until the ground is 

 filled up, then have to park outside. We probably give 150 pass-out 

 checks in the afternoon and very seldom any pass-out checks in the 

 evening. They have never yet got us into trouble. 



A INIember : We give pass-out checks at our fair, Hardin county, 

 good up until four o'clock. After four o'clock these pass-out checks 

 are not good. We increased the price of our fair to 35 cents, used 

 to be 25 cents years ago, increased the price to 35 cents and met a 

 good deal of objection to it, cut off the attendance quite a little for a 

 year or two, then raised it to 50 cents and then they did kick. We 

 issued pass-out checks so they could go up town any time they 

 wanted to during the day, but not good after four o'clock. We don't 

 issue any pass-out checks in the evening at all, never shall. We never 

 had any trouble but once. A couple of boys came in and got pass-out 

 checks and went up town and sold them for ten cents apiece. We got 

 rid of that trouble and haven't discovered any serious trouble since 

 that. Most everybody goes out during the day once and comes back. 



A Member ; Just assume I come up to your fair and pay my way 

 in. I want to go out in the course of the afternoon and they give 

 me a pass-out check. How can they hinder or know whether I come 

 in myself on that pass-out check or turn it over to somebody else 

 and they come in and the association loses half a dollar. I abso- 

 lutely know that that is worked at our fair at times. What I am 

 getting at is if we are to issue any pass-out checks at all it seems to 

 me impossible to get along without them in some cases being imposed 

 upon by the people turning around and giving the pass-out check to 

 somebody else. 



Mr. Bacon : I will try to answer that question in the method that 

 was used at Clay county when I was secretary there. We had a 

 stamp made with the name of the fair with a moveable date on. 

 When anybody went out, — we didn't want to issue pass-outs — when 

 anybody went out we took this stamp and stamped them on the 

 wrist, and they had to show that to get back in. 



Mr. C. E. Cameron : In my own connection with the Buena 

 Vista county fair at Alta we have always given out a pass-out check. 

 It is done because we want to accommodate, and we are probably 

 differently situated than others, we have a park just across the road 

 from the fair ground, and of course people bring their dinner with 



