2 IOWA DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 



Boys' camp Fred M. Hansen, Ames 



Boys' judging contest E. F. Ferrin, .Ames 



Publicity and advertising Ivanhoe Whitted, Des Moines 



The committee approved payment of bills. 



SPECIAL COMMITTEE MEETING 

 December 20, 1915 



The special committee composed of Cameron, Olson, Curtiss and Corey 

 met in the rooms of the Department of Agriculture at 2:30 Monday, 

 December 20, for the purpose of taking further evidence and considering 

 the evidence on file in regard to the protest of awards in the filly section 

 of the National Draft Horse Breeders' Futurity. Additional affidavits 

 were filed by Mr. W. M. Tice and Mr. Tice also appeared in person before 

 the committee and gave further evidence in the case. After giving due 

 consideration to the affidavits on file and to the testimony presented by 

 the witnesses at the hearing on September 25 and December 20 the 

 following rseolution was offered and unanimously adopted^ by the 

 committee. 



Des Moines, Iowa, Dec. 20, 1915. 



In the case of the protest filed on August 31, 1915, by W. M. Tice of Sulley, 

 Iowa, against the exhibition of Ophelia, 112945, catalog number 200, in the 

 yearling Percheron Futurity class at the 1915 Iowa State Fair, on the grounrl 

 that said mare is more than a yearling and not a purebred Percheron, the 

 special committee of the Iowa Board of Agriculture to whom this case 

 was referred hereby sustains said protest for the reason that evidence which 

 the commiittee regards as conclusive has been furnished to the effect that 

 Keota May 20242, the dam of this mare, according to the certificate of 

 registry, did not produce a foal in 1914. The committee therefore rules 

 that Ophelia was ineligible to show in the yearling Percheron filly class at 

 the Iowa State Fair in August, 1915, and the prize awarded to Ophelia be 

 withdrawn and the animals next in succession in the prize list be moved up 

 one place. 



Special Committee — C. E. Cameron, O. A. Olson, A. R. Corey, C. F. Curtiss. 



EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE MEETING 

 December 20, 1915. 



Members present: Cameron, Olson, Corey. 



The committee approved the bond of $10,000 for A. R. Corey, Secretary, 

 and the same was filed with the Secretary of State. 



The committee also approved the $100,000 bond for W. W. Morrow, 

 Treasurer, and the same was placed on file in the department. 



As per orders of the State Board of Agriculture the president and 

 secretary signed orders on the state auditor for $1,000 appropriation for 

 insurance and improvements at the state fair grounds; also for $2,400 

 for the support of the office of the department of agriculture as provided 

 for in Section 1657-t, Supplement to the Code, 1913. 



The secretary presented propositions for advertising hangers for the 

 1916 fair as submitted by the Kenyon Printing Company of Des Moines 

 and the Thomas D. Murphy Company, Red Oak. The secretary was 

 authorized to order 5,000 at 14 cents each, as per the proposition sub- 

 mitted by the Kenyon Printing Company, Des Moines. 



