18 IOWA DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 



EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE MEETING. 



July 14-17. 



Members present, Cameron, Olson and Corey. 



The committee called on Mr. Sheehan, member of the State Board of 

 Control and Governor Harding and made an urgent request that the ex- 

 hibit of the State institutions under the Board of Control be continued 

 at the 1917 Iowa State Fair. The committee received assurance from the 

 Governor and Mr. Sheehan that this matter would be taken care of. 



The committee assigned the room on the first floor of the Women and 

 Children's Building, occupied by the Child Welfare Exhibit last year, to 

 the Iowa Chapter of the Red Cross Association. 



The committee met with Professor C. L. Fitch, Ames, in charge of the 

 experimental garden at the fair grounds. They agreed to make an excava- 

 tion for a vegetable cellar and do all labor necessary provided Professor 

 Fitch arrange to have material furnished to build the cellar. 



The committee instructed the secretary to notify the publishers of 

 Iowa weekly papers that grandstand seats would be furnished them if they 

 would make application for same at the office of the secretary during the 

 period of the fair. 



The committee opened bids on a 125 foot steel flag pole for the center 

 field. On account of the lowest bid being $540 all bids were rejected and 

 the secretary was instructed to secure bids on a 100 foot steel flag pole 

 without guys. 



The secretary presented the communication from Mr. W. B. Quarton, 

 President of the Iowa State Dairy Association; also correspondence from 

 J. C. Cort, Professor in dairying at the Iowa State College. Inasmuch as 

 the State Dairy Association withdrew their support for putting on the 

 cow test association exhibit the committee authorized Professor Cort to 

 go ahead with arrangements for this exhibit, with the understanding that 

 the total expense should not exceed $300. 



Contract was entered into with Mr. Geo. I. Mack, Des Moines, Iowa, 

 to operate the grocery store on the fair grounds during the fair. The con- 

 cession was fixed at $300 with the strict understanding that all groceries 

 and other merchandise sold from the fair grounds store be sold for the 

 same price charged for the same groceries and merchandise sold by Mr. 

 Mack at his store located at 412 B. 6th Street. 



The committee appropriated a sum not to exceed $350 to be used by 

 the committee in charge of the program to be carried out in the auditorium 

 of the Women and Children's Building during the 1917 fair. This to cover 

 all expenses for picture machines, operator, expense of speakers, etc. 



The committee appropriated $100 to be offered as prizes to counties 

 having the largest representation in the parade on Boys' and Girls' Club 

 Day, Wednesday, August 29. 



The committee authorized the purchase of 10,000 gallons of road oil at 

 five and two-tenths cents per gallon, f. o. b. fair grounds. The committee 

 also authorized the superintendent of grounds to contract with the Hawk- 

 eye Road Oiling Company to apply this oil at three-fourths cents per 

 gallon. 



The committee met with George Schofield, Lincoln, Nebraska, and made 

 him a proposition for the grandstand concession, he to pay the depart- 



