12 IOWA DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 



ADVERTISING BUDGET, 1920. 



The committee approved the following advertising budget for the 



1920 fair: 



Country weekly papers $ 5,000.00 



Plate matter for country papers 1,200.00 



Daily papers outside Des Moines 1,000.00 



Des Moines daily papers 5,500.00 



Agricultural, live stock and breed papers 1,750.00 



Horse papers, advertising- speed program 700.00 



Implement and machinery papers 



Superintendent Advertising, salary, five months 833.00 



Assistant salary 100.00 



Stenographer and clerk, salary, five months 500.00 



Printing Greater Iowa 1,080.00 



Postage on Greater Iowa 30.00 



Hangers and window cards 775.00 



Dates for billboard paper 150.00 



Billboard service 1,200.00 



Distributing advertising matter 75.00 



Cuts and electros 300.00 



Co-operative Publicity Bureau, news matter 200.00 



Miscellaneous 607.00 



$21,000 



ADVERTISING BUDGET SPEED PROGRAM, 1920. 



The committee approved the advertising budget for advertising the 

 speed program in the horse papers. 



The superintendent of grounds was directed to haul the granite coping 

 along Grand Avenue north of the Capitol Building, the cement curbing 

 along East Eleventh Street and the cement curbing and side walk blocks 

 south of the Capitol Building to the state fair grounds. The granite cop- 

 ing to be used as a retaining wall east of the new cattle barn, the curb- 

 ing to be used in curbing the new street between the Stock Pavilion and 

 new cattle barn and side walk blocks to be used in extending a new walk 

 from Grand Avenue north to the new auto parking ground. 



The proposition submitted by F. Lamson Scribner for putting on an 

 exhibit from the U. S. Department of Agriculture was accepted by the 

 committee. Four thousand feet of floor space at the west end of the 

 show room under the grandstand was set aside for this exhibit. The ex- 

 hibit to be made without expense to the fair management other than 

 furnishing free space, light, decorations, etc. 



An order for $15,000 to cover the fourth estimate on the new cattle ban 

 was drawn on the Auditor of State. 



The committee approved the revised plan for the stall partitions in the 

 new cattle barn as submitted by the architects, Keffer and Jones. 



The committee held a conference with Mr. G. H. Gendall, Leader Boy 

 Scouts, and entertained a proposition to bring one hundred or one hundred 

 twenty-five boy scouts to the fair this year. The proposition provided 

 that the fair management furnish camping space for the boys, give them 

 free admission and contribute $300 to their mess fund. In return for this 

 the boys are to serve as ushers in the grandstand and coliseum. 



The committee directed the superintendent of grounds, Mr. Deemer, 



