FOURTEENTH ANNUAL YEAR BOOK— PART III 233 



certain extent, but when decisions come in for final settlement 

 if there is any complaint brought to the executive board in regard 

 to the awarding of the premiums we make no decision in regard 

 to the executive board. The superintendent of that* certain de- 

 partment is first called in, and if he says there has been an error, 

 or wants a correction made, then we mark and make the correc- 

 tion. In the livestock department, including their department, 

 and it applies also to our horsemen — speed particularly. "We have 

 two teams. Now, this year our man that has charge of that, I 

 don't know whether he lias paid much attention to the horsemen 

 or not. I don't know I am sure. But we have two teams on the 

 ground all the time Monday, Tuesday or Saturday, or whatever 

 the day happens to be. They are supposed to haul all crated 

 hogs free of charge. The same teams we employ the full time of 

 th-e fair. They haul the hay around to the different departments, 

 and also pay particular attention to sanitation. We furnish the 

 hay and straw, the first bedding, free of charge. AVe bed every 

 stall in the fair grounds before the fair takes place. After that 

 we furnish them the best hay and charge them for it. We fur- 

 nish the distribution of feed. 



This year we built a $3,000 cattle barn. The system we em- 

 ployed there was a matter of going around and soliciting. It 

 was paid by soliciting, and by the hearty co-operation of the ma- 

 jority who were on farms. This year I had letters from our 

 different breeders of hogs, and they told us they would go to work 

 and raise a certain amount if we would increase the premiums 

 in a like amount. We can not do that in one certain department, 

 so, of course, we are going to do that all the way through. 



In the matter of the system we have for policing the grounds, 

 we have thirty-three policemen. There are only two instructions 

 that we lay very particular stress on ; the instructions are to 

 watch for women of ill fame and for booze. If there is any 

 occasion for any mistrust of anybody, we put a special watch 

 for either one or the other. Those were the only special instruc- 

 tions given to the police department this year. 



In the matter of a ticket taker, we had fifteen ticket takers this 

 year. We have a system there whereby we go to work and change 

 off. We do not ask one man or two men to be on duty all the 

 time. We give them a relay. There is no place we could have 

 fifteen ticket takers unless it was for the relay, and we pay them 

 twenty cents an hour. We have the same man who has charge of 



