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lication of the name of each man who received a premium. You could 

 say so much was paid out for horses and so much for hogs, sheep and 

 poultry, and then make your final financial statement, and have that prop- 

 erly sworn to before the fair offices. That ought to go with the state and 

 fulfill all requirements of the law. 



In some of my own experiences I have stood around the secretary's 

 desk at district and county fairs for hours at a time trying to get the 

 premium list that I might publish it the same week that the fair was 

 held or the next week, and absolutely couldn't get it. Your fair secre- 

 taries are busy as any men I have ever seen. You are as busy as I am 

 here during a state association meeting, but I laid down on that secretary 

 for six solid weeks and couldn't get the list then until some officers went 

 down and got the list from him for the newspapers. The news value is 

 gone by that time, and the space is wasted. 



I thank you. (Applause.) 



The President : We will listen now to any questions that you 

 would like to ask. 



Mr. Barber: We furnish to our newspaper each night a list of 

 the fair awards, but it is not acceptable to the state in that form, and 

 we have to redraft it. They go through during the week and publish 

 practically 75 per cent of the premiums, and then next week you 

 have to publish it all over again, so that you have to pay for it. I 

 think the list should be published, but I think it absolutely unneces- 

 sary to make repetition and publish it two or three times. 



The President : I don't believe you understood me, Mr. Barber, in 

 my paper. I may not have made it clear that my suggestion was 

 that we condense the form and cut it down to as few words as pos- 

 sible to make it comply with the law, and these letters that Mr. Cas- 

 well read would indicate it. In fact, I have here — I am all in favor 

 of condensing — I have here a form that was published this year in 

 the Messenger of 209 inches, where some other fellow had 400 and 

 some odd inches, and he didn't have as many premiums as we did. 

 He had duplication of words and many more lines. I have several 

 copies of this paper here and if anybody wants to see this form we 

 will be very glad to furnish it to you. I am in favor of condensing 

 the premium award list and cutting it down to as few words as pos- 

 sible. My idea was to convey the thought that we should as fair 

 secretaries give full publicity of what we are doing at home. Let 

 the people know what we are doing and let the people know that 

 John Jones got a premium on a bull or on a horse, and that the little 

 Smith girl got a premium on some jelly and things of that kind. It 

 is an asset to us, there is no question about that. It does us a world 

 of good. 



