260 IOWA DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 



AFTERNOON SESSION. 

 Thursday, December 9, 1909. 



Board met at 1 :30 p. m. pursuant to adjournment with the fol- 

 lowing members present: Cameron, Brown, Simpson, Johnston, 

 Phillips, Reeves, Curtin, Wentworth, Legoe, Curtiss, Ledgerwood, 

 Escher, Olson, Pike and Wright. 



Messrs. Curtiss and Escher were sworn in as members of the 

 State Board of Agriculture for the ensuing two years by the clerk 

 of the supreme court. 



Mr. W. B. Barney and Mr. E. R. Shoemaker, representing the 

 Iowa State Dairy Association, were present and addressed the board 

 with reference to and in the interests of the exhibit of dairy cat- 

 tle at the state fair. They asked that one of the assistant superin- 

 tendents of the cattle department be someone in close touch with 

 the dairy breeds. 



Mr. Simpson read a communication from Hon. Frederick Larra- 

 bee relative to requiring the tubercular test of all cattle exhijDited 

 at the Iowa State Fair. On motion, duly seconded, the communica- 

 tion was ordered placed on file. 



On motion of Mr. Ledgerwood the following named parties were 

 to be recommended to the Superintendent of Public Safety to act 

 as marshals at the next fair : 



C. M. Akes of Leon, 



Carl Shields of Afton, 



T. J. Hudson of Winterset. 



The schedule of pay for employes at the fair was considered. Mr. 

 Johnston moved that the matter of police regulation be submitted 

 to the executive committee and the superintendent of public safety 

 and admissions for a thorough reorganization. Seconded by Mr. 

 Legoe. Motion prevailed. 



Mr. Johnston then moved that the matter of wages for the various 

 members of the police department be referred to a committee of 

 three, to report tomorrow. Motion prevailed. The president ap- 

 pointed as the committee Messrs. Johnston, Olson and Legoe. 



The election of the superintendent of grounds was next taken up. 

 Mr. Curtiss offered the following resolution, which was adopted : 



Resolved, That it is the sense of this Board that the system of malting 

 purchases, employment of labor, keeping time and accounts, for the care, 

 maintenance and minor improvements on the state fair grounds and 

 buildings be so revised that all work of this kind come under the direct 

 supervision of the executive committee, and that purchases be made on 



