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Cash on hand Dec. 1, 1908, after deducting balance 

 due on contracts $ 20.231.98 



Due from state for insurance, improvements and 

 repairs 1,000.00 



Amount to be paid from State Fair receipts of 



1909 5,000.00 $ 26,231.98 



Amount of improvement to be paid from 1909 State 



Fair receipts if all are made $ 16,718.02 



It is anticipated that the sale of secondhand lumber will bring in a 

 sufficient amount to offset the expense of wrecking the old amphitheater. 



It is also anticipated that the $100,000 appropriation from the state 

 will pay all contracts, architects and engineers fees, grading, etc., re- 

 building track, moving and afterwards repairing speed barns. Should 

 this amount exceed the $100,000 same would have to be added to the 

 deficit, or, more properly, anticipated receipts of $16,718.02 from the 

 1909 state fair. 



The board visited the fair grounds and looked over the prospec- 

 tive location for the track and speed barns. Other parts of the 

 grounds were visited with a view of having the board better famil- 

 iarize themselves with the improvements necessary as presented by 

 the executive committee. 



Friday, April 2, 1909. 



Board met at nine o'clock a. m. with President Cameron in the 

 chair. Roll call found the following members present: Cameron. 

 Brown. Simpson. Johnston. Phillips. Reeves, Packard, Legoe. Cur- 

 tiss, Ledgerwood. McDonald. Olson and Pike. 



The matter of seats for the amphitheatre was discussed and upon 

 motion the executive committee was authorized and instructed to 

 purchase necessary chairs for seating said amphitheatre. 



The following report was offered by Mr. Curtiss, chairman of the 

 Committee on Contagious Diseases Among Domestic Animals, who 

 moved that it be accepted and spread upon the minutes, which mo- 

 tion prevailed: 

 Iowa State Department of Agriculture, Des Moines, Iowa. 



Gentlemen: At the annual meeting of the State Board of Agriculture 

 held on December 12, 1907, the following resolution was passed: 



RESOLUTION PASSED BT THE STATE BOARD OF AGRICULTURE DECEMBER 12, 1907. 



Whereas, The reports of the federal meat inspectors show bovine tuber- 

 culosis to prevail in scattered localities throughout the state, therefore 

 be It 



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