262 IOWA DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 



There are a number of other things that should be said, but 

 since Mr. McLaughlin and Mv. Anderson are in this free-for-all 

 kick, I leave them the rest of it. 



Mr. Culbertson : Mr. President, I will say to the gentleman 

 who just spoke that if he had circulated up around JefiPerson, 

 Green County, in the past few years, after the race had been 

 finished, if he had been successful enough to win, he would have 

 found his money hanging on a wire across the track in a silken 

 pouch, with the name of the association, the date and the race, and 

 he would not have even had to sign the receipt. His money would 

 be found in there. 



A Delegate: Mr. Chairman, I would like to say something in 

 regard to this money business. Twelve or fourteen years ago 

 he and I started in at West Union and we M'on several races there. 

 When his race was through he was called under the wire and the 

 money was dropped down to him. I suppose he has forgotten 

 that. Waverly, West Union, Decorah, Nashua, and all up through 

 there. Our money was always ready. One thing I would like for 

 each man to take home with him, and that is the water. These 

 big wells stand there all sunnner. They are full of water that is not 

 fit to drink or use for anything. We shipped into Fonda one Satur- 

 day evening and they had a brand new pumping w^ell there. A man 

 from Missouri was one of the party and he drank some of that 

 water. The next morning he said to me, "There is something 

 wrong here, I am running off and my horse is running off at the 

 bowels." Sunday evening there M^as a camp and I was pumping a 

 bucket of water and a .young lady came up to get a drink. I says, 

 "help yourself." Then I happened to look into the bucket and 

 I saw it was full of liair. We examined that well and there were 

 some rabbits had gotten down there. Of course this would physic, 

 and that is what caused the trouble. 



I suggest, that you pump every bit of water out of these wells 

 and put in slack lime, because it will be sure to cause trouble if 

 you do not do so. 



And there is another thing. Tliey have got some of the same 

 stables that they had forty years ago, and the walls have big 

 cracks in them and the horses have got to stand in a draft and 

 sleep over night. One time at Waverly I had to i)ut my hors.' in 

 a stable there and it rained that night. I had just taken the horse 

 out of a stable that stood thi-ee feet off the ground. The next 

 morning he was standing ankle deep in water. The stable was 



