FIFTEENTH ANNUAL YEAR BOOK— PART I 7 



superintendent of the department, his assistant Mr. Heathcrshaw, Mr. 

 Coverdale who is in charge of the county advisers, and your secretary. 

 The tentative plan outlined is about as follows: 



The exhibit to be put on by the county advisers in counties organized 

 and working in co-operation with the extension department and the U. S. 

 Government; the fair management to offer |150.00 cash for each exhibit 

 scoring above a minimum of 50 points. The money so offered to go into 

 a fund to be divided pro rata on points scored above the minimum. Addi- 

 tional premiums to be awarded to five county exhibits scoring highest on 

 beauty of arrangement. These latter premiums need not be large; say 

 $100 divided $30, $25, $20, $15, $10. The purpose of these special pre- 

 miums would be to encourage beauty of arrangement inasmuch as the 

 other money would be awarded almost entirely for quality of exhibits. It 

 would also be necessary to provide a score card so that the advisers might 

 know what v>ould constitute a perfect score for quantity and variety of 

 exhibit, similar to the score card mentioned for the individual farm ex- 

 hibits, except that the variety and quantity shown should be greater. We 

 have the assurance of Mr. Coverdale that if a class for these exhibits is 

 adopted that he will make it a duty of each of these advisers to provide 

 and put up an exhibit at the state fair. 



In regard to the art exhibit, it is a well known fact that we have been 

 unable to induce anyone to exhibit anything of value or worthy of men- 

 tion for the reason that it has been necessary to house the exhibits in a 

 frame building, familarly known as the "Art Barn." In the basement of 

 the Women and Children's Building we will have a room 46x70 with a 

 fifteen foot ceiling and dead walls on one side and both ends. This room 

 is absoutely fire proof and would make an ideal place for such an exhibit. 

 I would recommend that the board authorize placing the exhibit in this 

 room and a thorough revision of the classification. I am of the opinion 

 that the classification should be open to the world and the exhibits should 

 be insured for two-thirds of their value from the time they leave the 

 possession of the owner until they are returned in order to secure a high 

 class exhibit. 



The board should at this meeting recommend to the governor that 

 George M. Chappel be appointed to succeed himself as director of the Iowa 

 Weather and Crop Service for two years. 



