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our lawns with sheep and they certainly did a fine job, especially 

 in keeping the weeds down in the camp grounds. Our camp grounds 

 have never been in such fine condition. It has cost us annually 

 about six hundred dollars to keep the grass and weeds cut. We 

 have sold all the lambs and most of the old sheep. I think we have 

 about one hundred and forty head left that we are feeding and ex- 

 pect to market. If the price keeps up we will about break even on 

 our new lawn mowers and save the six hundred dollars that we have 

 '.•spent heretofore for the work of mowing the grass. 



It will not be necessary for me to take up the details of the last 

 fair, as Mr. Corey, the secretary, will go into that and give you the 

 total attendance, receipts and profits of the fair this year. I will 

 say that the fair was never so satisfactory to the management as it 

 was this year. My ambition has been all these years to live to see 

 the day that our attendance would be 300,000. It looked this year 

 as though my wish would be fulfilled; but for one rainy day I am 

 satisfied our attendance would have been over that number. As it 

 was, we had something over 292,000 in attendance; so we only 

 lacked 8,000 of fulfilling the dream I have had all these years. 

 Conditions were ideal this year for the fair. Crops were good, the 

 weather excellent, and with all kinds of farm work well in hand 

 the citizens of the state had both leisure and inclination to attend 

 the fair. 



President Cameron appointed the following eommittecs: 



Committee on Credentials: H. L. Pike, Monona County; C H. 

 White, Mills County; Ralph Sherman, Poweshiek County. 



Committee on Resolutions : Chas. H. Barber, Cerro Gordo Coun- 

 ty; J. C. Beckner, Page County; W. M. Clark, Marshall County. 



The Secretary of the State Board of Agriculture, Mr. A. R. 

 Corey, made the following report for the year: 



REPORT OF SECRETARY. 



A. R. COREY. 



In preparing a report for this convention I have made it as brief 

 as possible, giving a short review of the more important work car- 

 ried out in the four divisions of the department, viz., the Stallion 

 Registration Division, State Publicity Department, Department of 

 Agriculture and the State Fair. 



