232 IOWA DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 



DISCUSSION. 



Mr. Palm: Could you tell us about how much you put out in 

 that line in your fair ? 



Mr. Lauer: Our superintendents we paid four to five dollars 

 per day for six days. 



]\Ir. Palm : Do you know how much ? 



Mr. Lauer : No ; I can not give it to you right now. 



Mr. Palm : I like the suggestion very well, but we do not do it. 



Mr. Lauer : I can not give it to you off hand, or I would. 



Now we call these superintendents together quite frequently, 

 and then, besides that, we take these superintendents of these 

 different departments and go out and see the known exhibitor and 

 also the unknown exhibitor. We go out and see that these ex- 

 hibitors are interested — we try to get them interested. Now, it 

 might be we would go to one man and he would say, "But my 

 exhibit will not amount to anything." But we show him that it 

 goes in the aggregate to make up a department. You can't lose 

 from your county fair. 



Mr. Palm : Mr. Speaker, would it interrupt you if you were to 

 ask how many fairs do that? 



]\Ir. Lauer : How many of you do that ? I see there are six ; 

 Winneshiek County, Mitchell, Sac City, Sioux City, Hampton 

 and Waverly. 



]\Ir. Stephany : I pay our superintendents with a complimentary 

 ticket for the season and they pay for their own meals. 



Delegate from Marshalltown : Our fair is along the same plan 

 as the organization of the Waverly fair^ — in fact, I think they 

 copied after us in their forms of government. We never pay this 

 executive committee of six anything, outside of the $2.50 a day 

 for superintendents and $2.00 for the assistant. 



Mr. Lauer: If they happen to be on this committee, the super- 

 intendents, that is the only way they get any pay. 



Mr. Leach: Nobody owns any more than anollici'; anyone is 

 eligible, and we pay our supoi-intciidciits meal tickets, and we get 

 thousands of them. 



Mr. Palm: I\Ir. Lauer, 1 waiil to beg yowr indulgence foi- inter- 

 rupting you while speaking, but 1 really did want this point 

 br-ought out ))('eause it seemed like a most excellent one. 



Mr. Lauer: In rcgai'd to our supcfintcndcnt 's decisions in \\\o 

 judge's books the supei-intendeiit's decision is iinal. Ol' course, 

 the superintendent is always supposed to l)e with the judge to a 



