30 IOWA DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 



Make a change in the feed racks in the sheep pens by placing a ten- 

 inch board in the bottom of each rack. 



Remove the pole line north of the race track and construct an electric 

 light line on the east and west street through the auto parking ground. 



Place a six-inch hanging gutter on the low roof of the Exposition 

 Building. 



Order 100 lawn seats. 



Rebuild all the exhibition booths in the Exposition Building and place 

 a three-light fixture in each exhibition booth. 



The secretary brought to the attention of the committee a proposition 

 made by Hugh Bennett in which he offered to sell one 60x90 tent, seat- 

 ing for 1,000 people, stage with scenery, piano, wiring for the tent and 

 electric lamps, same being a complete Chautauqua outfit, for the sum of 

 $200. The secretary was directed to purchase the outfit for $200, the 

 tent to be used for an assembly tent and the seating to be used for the 

 new horse show ring. 



The secretary was authorized to make contract with Mr. C. L. Herring 

 of the Herring Motor Car Company, giving him use of the aviation field 

 for the purpose of carrying passengers during the fair, with the under- 

 standing that he is to assume all responsibility for accidents, either to 

 passengers or public. The fair management agreed to stop traffic on the 

 streets at each end of the aviation field while the ships were leaving or 

 landing. It was agreed there would be no charge for this privilege. 



EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE MEETING. 

 July 27, 1919. 



Members present, Cameron, Mullen and Corey. Directors Pike and 

 Tow met with the committee. 



The committee, together with Directors Tow and Pike, went over the 

 plans for the new cattle barn with Architect Jones. 



The committee directed the secretary to accept the two carloads of 

 government exhibits as per proposition .submitted by F. Lamson Scribner. 



The committee also directed the secretary to accept the proposition 

 for four carloads of war exhibits, consisting of tractor artillery, anti- 

 aircraft guns, etc., and to make a deposit of $1,500 with the adjutant gen- 

 eral of the United States to cover the Iowa State Fair share of the ex- 

 pense for transporting the exhibit and sixteen demonstrators over the 

 following fair circuit: Missouri State Fair, Iowa State Fair, Kansas State 

 Fair, Texas State Fair, Texas Cotton Palace. 



The secretary was directed to extend to the state branch of the Amer- 

 ican Legion an invitation to hold their state convention on Soldiers' Day, 

 Saturday, August 23d, at the state fair grounds. 



The secretary informed the committee that Mr. C. C. Heer, assistant 

 secretary, had informed him that he must either make his plans to return 

 to law school at Harvard or seek more remunerative employment. The 

 secretary recommended that Mr. Heer be paid $2,400 a year, the same as 

 the deputies in other offices in the State House. The committee approved 



