FIFTEENTH ANNUAL YEAR BOOK— PART I 69 



MEETING OF STATE BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. 

 TUESDAY, OCTOBER 27, 1914. 



The board met at 1 :30 p. m. with President Cameron in the 

 chair. The following members of the board responded to roll 

 call : Cameron, Corey, Tribby, Reeves, Curtin, Tow, Legoe, Shel- 

 don, Summers, Mullen and Pike. 



Secretary read the minutes of the board meeting on March 5th 

 and the executive committee meetings up to June 16th and 17th. 

 Mr. Reeves moved that the minutes as read be approved. Sec- 

 onded by Mr. Legoe. Motion carried. 



Secretary presented an itemized statement of receipts and dis- 

 bursements of the Iowa Department of Agriculture and the Iowa 

 State Fair and Exposition for the period December 1, lOlS', to 

 October 24, 1914, of which the following is a sumraai'y: 



SUMMARY OF RECEIPTS AND DISBURSEMENTS, DECEMBER 1, 

 1913, TO OCTOBER 24, 1914. 



RECEIPTS: 



Cash on hand Deo. 1, 1913 $ 18,505.82 



Receipts from other sources than fair 63,721.27 



Receipts of fair other than ticket sales $ 59,104.20 



Receipts from ticket sales 128,718.50 



Total receipts of fair 187,822.90 



Grand total receipts $ 270,O4<>.99 



DISBURSEMENTS: 



For other than fair or imp. paid $ 8,300.67 



For other than fair or imp. unpaid 167.35 



Total other than fair or imp $ 8,477.02 



Exp. fair other than prems. paid $99,428.77 



Exp. fair other than prems. unpaid 5,386.72 



Cash premiifms paid 66,118.85 



Total cost of fair 110,OS4.U 



Permanent improvements, paid $93,497.18 



Permanent improvements, unpaid 11,666.36 



Total cost of improvements and biiildings 105,163.54 



Maintenance of grounds, paid $ 6,.?13.69 



Maintenance of grounds, unpaid 392.32 



Total cost of maintenance 6,736.01 



Total disbursements 291,310.91 



Total short to date $ 21,260.92 



The matter of taking care of the unpaid bills was discussed by 

 the board members and it was deemed advisable to borrow the 

 money to take care of all claims. 



Mr. Curtin offered the following resolution and moved its adop- 

 tion. ]\Iotion seconded by Mr. Mullen : 



