144 IOWA DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 



The iCliairman: For the benefit of the executive committee, if they 

 decide to have such a meeting, how many liere would attend? 



The Chairman: It would be an imposition to have them come to Des 

 Moines to meet eight or nine people. If we are going to have a meeting, 

 if you want the executive committee to call such a meeting and invite 

 the concession people here, we ought to have some representation. Per- 

 sonally, I think the time allotted to this meeting, one day, is too short. We 

 ought to have a two days' meeting, hut I question very much whether the 

 spring is the time to have a meeting of this association for the simple 

 reason that we have a circuit meeting in northwestern Iowa about that 

 time. We are going to hold that meeting up near us, and we are going to 

 do everything we can to get a big attendance. I don't want to take advan- 

 tage because I am chairman of this meeting, but I am absolutely opposed 

 to anything that will detract from this meeting as it now stands. In the 

 past two years we have accomplished something we have worked for 

 ever since I have been a member. We have gotten an appropriation of 

 some size and dignity and I believe in the course of two or three years, 

 if this association keeps together and works in harmony, we will accom- 

 plish more. One important thing we should not lose sight of is the 

 meeting of the state agricultural society. The law provides that we 

 have a vote in the election of the members of the board of agriculture, 

 and it is for that purpose that we come to Des Moines, as well as for 

 the benefits we derive from this meeting. I believe we ought to proceed 

 along lines of caution in starting another meeting or doing anything that 

 will detract from the interest in this meeting. We have only one day, it 

 is true, but we get a great deal of benefit. If I don't learn anything 

 coming down here, just to meet the fellows and talk together would 

 compensate me. If it weren't for the intercourse I have with the brother 

 managers and brother secretaries the meeting wouldn't be half so bene- 

 ficial. We have a fine association here and I don't believe you are going 

 to form circuits or racing circuits among yourselves in your particular 

 locality which will supercede in importance this meeting. 



You cannot come down here, gentlemen, with a committee to meet 

 a racing circuit, pick out free attractions and close contracts with con- 

 cession men in one day and do it properly. I am opposed to anything that 

 would tend to take you away from the state department of agriculture 

 that meets tomorrow. Some members will say "I cannot go to both meet- 

 ings, so I will go to this meeting in the spring," or another will say "We 

 don't want to send anyone down to this meeting, they are not going to 

 sell any attractions there; they are not going to book any free acts. We 

 are going to the spring meeting," and the result would be that you would 

 cut the attendance of this meeting squarely in two. 



Mr. Rigby: We want to get this matter clear in our minds. The inten- 

 tion of this motion was. not that there was to be a spring meeting, at all. 

 I appreciate all that Mr. Morton has said and I am sure that I abide with 

 him in loyalty to this organization, and it may be that after the executive 

 committee gives this matter full consideration they will see that the dis- 

 advantages of having a meeting in the spring more than overcomes the 



