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that there would be no inducement made to breeders of hvestock or 

 horsemen to come. 



Mr. Young: But it has been done this year just the same. 



Mr. Barber: Two of the fellows at that meeting went right out 

 and did it. 



Mr. Bacon: There is something that ought to come to the atten- 

 tion of the fair secretaries, and the first is that last year in the East 

 there was a new trotting association formed called the Union 

 Trotting association. At that time they named on their board of 

 directors Mr. E. D. Curtin as a director, and he was at that time 

 president of the Harness Horse association. It was confused in 

 the minds of many secretaries throughout the state as being a part 

 of the Harness Horse association, and they joined, and they also 

 took over some of the rules of the Harness Horse association. Any 

 of you secretaries attending the meeting of the American Trotting 

 association last February you will remember that when the rules 

 committee met and the rules were adopted, the Harness Horse 

 association had a committee there, and they recommended certain 

 rules to be adopted by the American Trotting association, and at 

 that time they elected from the west the greatest breeder of harness 

 horses in the world today, Mr. E. D. Gould. They also have on the 

 board of the American Trotting association the president of your 

 Iowa State Fair, Mr. C. E. Cameron, and I am going to ask you to 

 Hsten to a letter I received from Mr. Smollinger who is secretary of 

 the American Trotting association : 



Mr. M. E. Bacon, Secretary, 

 Davenport, Iowa. 



Dear Sir: 



I am in receipt of yours of the 30th and I regret that it will be impos- 

 sible for me to be at your meeting as it is quite essential that I should 

 be at the meeting of the Board of Appeals on December 7th, and that 

 date can not be changed as it is fixed by the by-laws. 



I appreciate very much your interest in securing the return of the few 

 associations which during 1920 followed off strange gods. The Associa- 

 tion which they joined is entirely incapable of giving service of any kind 

 to its members, as it has no records and no oflicials that know anything 

 or are capable of determining the eligibility of horses, or anything of 

 that kind. 



There have been several conferences between myself and the oflacials 

 of the Union Trotting Association at their request on the matter of amal- 

 gamation with The American Trotting Association. So far they have 

 had nothing to offer which seemed to me to be of interest to The Amer- 

 ican Trotting Association or helpful to the game. 



