242 IOWA DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 



Voice: What is their address? 



Mr. Benson : American Poland China Record Association, Chi 

 cago, Illinois; W. M. McFadden, secretary. It will be necessary 

 for your fair association to communicate with them and have their 

 approval before you advertise your money premium, but they have 

 that open to all of the fairs, and last year they spent something 

 like $2,400. Just about the same thing is offered by the National 

 Duroc Jersey Association. Their headquarters 'is at Peoria, Illinois. 

 I have known of a great many fairs that would have put this into 

 their attractions if they had known of it or thought of it. My own 

 fair didn't, and we came in a little late. It is necessary to start this 

 thing early in the year to get all of your arrangements made, and 

 that fits into your pig club very nicely. One county in South Dakota 

 bought their pigs, paid notes for the sows, paid all of the feed at 

 going prices, and came back in the fall at a sale and had a net gain 

 of $115 per sow — some more and some less, but that pig club fea- 

 ture is something that helps the fair. 



Mr. Bailey : In connection with the prizes offered these boys, 

 after we got it nicely started, one of our manufacturers came to me 

 and said, "Bailey, I'll offer as a first prize one of our feed grinders 

 — a $65 feed grinder as first prize," and that gave me a thought and 

 we got a prize for every one of the boys from our manufacturers 

 and dealers along that line. Such things as hay, a ton of shorts, 

 and things of that sort, and then I went to the bank and they said, 

 "We'll give a five-dollar gold piece to every boy in the contest, so 

 the banker came out there when we delivered the prizes and gave 

 the five-dollar gold pieces. I might say also that the boy that won 

 first prize sold his sow for $200 and three or four of his gilts at 

 $80 apiece. I think he cleaned up something more than $400, besides 

 turning back the gilts to the fair. 



The Chairman : It is five o'clock, so we'll have to carry out our 

 program. We will have to start on the election of officers. These 

 recommendations I think should be properly referred to the resolu- 

 tions committee to handle, and it will facilitate matters here con- 

 siderably. If someone will make a motion to change the name of 

 the association, and the matter of disposing of this state license 

 perhaps should be referred to the resolution committee. 



Motion by Mr. Bailey, seconded by Mr. Bacon, that the matters re- 

 ferred to be considered by the resolutions committee. Unanimously 

 adopted. 



