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department in the women's building, and in the hallway just outside of 

 this room. She also stated that it cost in the neighborhood of $75 or 

 $100 to bring the home demonstration agent to the fair for the purpose 

 of putting on and explaining these exhibits, and that she would like to 

 interest the board in offering premiums for such exhibits. She further 

 stated that she should have more space. The exhibits to be scored by 

 a score card and no exhibit to receive a premium unless it scored at 

 least 500 points out of a possible 1000 points. She also stated that if no 

 other space was available that by partition through the home economics 

 class room it would be possible to take care of 18 county exhibits and 

 that 18 counties had already indicated that they would make an exhibit 

 at the 1923 fair. 



Mr. Hoffman moved that $500 be appropriated as prizes for the County 

 Project exhibits put on by the Farm Bureau women as outlined by Miss 

 Knowles. Motion was seconded by Mr. Pike and unanimously adopted. 



Mr. F. E. Sheldon presented his bond of $100,000 signed by himself, 

 Grant McPherrin, L. W. Grimes and Simon Casady. Mr. McHenry 

 moved that the bond presented by Mr. Sheldon be approved by the 

 board and filed with the secretary. 



Motion was seconded by Mr. Mullen and unanimously adopted. 



The secretary presented the following suggestions for taking care of 

 the boys and girls' calf club and pig club exhibits: 



It is quite evident to every member of the board that the boys and 

 girls' club department has grown beyond our expectations. This is es- 

 pecially true of the calf and pig club departments. 



It is not necessary to present any argument as to the merit of this 

 work. Over eight hundred farm boys and girls took an active part in 

 this year's fair either by making an exhibit or as a member of a judg- 

 ing or demonstration team. 



The most important features of this department are the calf and pig 

 club exhibits. The board must realize if these exhibits are to grow or 

 even maintain the present standard, more suitable quarters must be pro- 

 vided for taking care of them. The tent in which the pigs have been 

 exhibited is not only an expensive proposition each year, but in case of 

 rain or warm weather, is very unsatisfactory to the boys and girls show- 

 ing their pigs. 



This year a wonderful exhibit of 350 head of baby beeves was crowded 

 out of the cattle barn into the old nurse cow sheds. These quarters 

 were not satisfactory to the boys and girls and were never intended to 

 house exhibition stock. They are in the back yard and seldom visited 

 by the public. 



I believe the board should at this meeting decide upon some definite 

 plan for taking care of these exhibits. The legislature should be asked to 

 appropriate sufficient funds to make these improvements. It should not 

 be a difficult matter to figure out a plan to provide the additional pens in 

 the court of the swine barn and it would not be expensive construction.' 



The matter of providing quarters for the calf club exhibit is a more 

 difficult problem. Suitable quarters for this exhibit might be provided 

 by completing the sheep barn and using the west half for this purpose. 

 The uncompleted section would be 140x232 feet and would provide stalls 



