FIFTEENTH ANNUAL. YEAR BOOK— PART I 75 



The board should also take some action toward securing the National 

 Draft Horse Breeders' Futurity Show for the next two or three years. 

 The futurity show at the Iowa state fair this year was the last one to be 

 held under our three-year contract with the Chicago Daily Live Stock 

 World for this event. 



I would like the opinion of the board as to publishing the detailed 

 financial reports of the various departments, such as the privilege depart- 

 ment, speed department, receipts for stall rent in the horse, cattle, swine 

 and sheep departments, in the Year Book, and doing away with publish- 

 ing a list of the expense and premium warrants issued. The latter is 

 not a source of information to anyone and took up seventy-eight pages in 

 our 1913 Year Book. 



I should also like to have the board pass a resolution requesting the 

 executive council to partition off this room, providing private offices for 

 the secretary and superintendent of publicity. This partition could be 

 built about eight feet high and not affect the light in any part of the 

 room. The idea is to have the lower part of the partition of walnut, the 

 same as the other woodwork, and the upper part of ground glass. It is 

 getting more and more difficult to do the work under present conditions, 

 for the reason that your secretary is obliged to meet everyone who comes 

 into the office, whether they are on business or not. (See secretary's 

 report to state agricultural convention for itemized statements.) 



Mr. Legoe offered the following resolution : 



Resolved, That the executive committee be authorized to borrow, not 

 to exceed $10,000, or as much thereof as may be necessary, for the purpose 

 of taking care of unpaid bills and current expenses of the department of 

 agriculture. Seconded by Mr. Curtin. Motion carried. 



Attorney General Cosson conferred with, the board relative to. 

 the case pending in the District Court of Polk County against 

 Mr. C. E. Cameron and Mr. 0. A. Olson for maintaining a 

 nuisance during the 191-1 State Fair. 



Mr. Curtiss made the following report of the Horse depart- 

 ment : 



The horse department of the Iowa State Fair in 1914 set a new mark, 

 not only for the Iowa fair, but for all state fairs. There were 142 ex- 

 hibitors and 1,152 entries. In 1907 there were 84 exhibitors and 472 

 entries. Even then, it was considered that the Iowa State Fair had a good 

 exhibit in the horse department. There has been a constant increase in 

 the number of exhibitors from Iowa. Most of the exhibitors are Iowa 

 farmers who are raising pure bred horses primarily for farm work. 



At the 1914 state fair there were 246 head of Percherons, shown by 

 forty-six exhibitors. Forty of these exhibitors were Iowa breeders. 

 There were 115 Clydesdales, shown by sixteen exhibitors, twelve of whom 

 were Iowa breeders. There were ninety-two head of Shires, shown by 

 fifteen exhibitors, and twelve of the fifteen were from Iowa. There were 

 175 Belgians, shown by twenty-four exhibitors, and twenty-two of the 

 twenty-four were Iowa breeders and farmers. There were seventy-two 

 draft mares and geldings, shown by twenty-three exhibitors, and twenty 



