48 IOWA DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 



exhibition, and the amount of premiums paid in each division. 

 Also the amount of premiums paid on agricultural products, pan- 

 try and kitchen products, fine arts, and the total premiums paid 

 in all departments. 



Table No. 4 sets forth the total attendance, total number of 

 paid admissions, the admission fee charged, adults, children and 

 vehicles at the outside gate. Also the day admission fee charged 

 at grandstand and the total number of admissions to the day and 

 night grandstand performance. 



Inasmuch as the laws pertaining to the county and district 

 agricultural societies have been amended from time to time and 

 appear in three different volumes there is presented herewith the 

 laws in the amended form. 



Section 1658. County Societies — Premiums. County and district 

 agricultural societies may annually offer and award permiums for the 

 improvement of stock, tillage, crops, implements, mechanical fabrics, 

 articles of domestic industry, and such other articles and improvements 

 as they may think proper, and so regulate the amount thereof and the 

 different grades as to' induce general competition. 



Section 1659. List of Awards. Each county and district society 

 shall annually publish a list of the awards, and an abstract of the treas- 

 urer's account, in one or more newspapers of the county, with a report 

 of its proceedings during the year, and a synopsis of the awards. It 

 shall also make a report of the condition of agriculture in the county 

 to the board of directors of the state agricultural society, which shall 

 be forwarded on or before the first day of November in each year to 

 the secretary of said society. The auditor of state, before issuing a 

 warrant in favor of such societies for any amount, shall demand the 

 certificate of the secretary of the state society that such report has 

 been made. Any society failing to report on or before the first day 

 of November shall not receive state aid for that year. 



Section 1660. ApEropriation from County — Levy of tax for — ques- 

 tion submitted — notice — title in county- — control. That when a district 

 or county agricultural society or fair shall have procured in fee simple, 

 land for fair grounds, not less than ten acres in extent, or hold and 

 occupy such amount of land by virtue of a lease, and own and have 

 thereon buildings and improvements worth not less than two thousand 

 dollars, the board of supervisors of the county wherein such agricul- 

 tural society or fair is located, may appropriate and pay to it a sum 

 not exceeding one hundred dollars for every thousand inhabitants in 

 the county, to be expended by it in fitting up or purchasing such fair 

 grounds, but for no other purpose; but the aggregate amount so ap- 

 propriated shall not exceed ten hundred dollars to any one society or 

 fair. The board of supervisors are further authorized to purchase real 

 estate for county or district fair purposes, in sums exceeding ten hun- 

 dred dollars, providing, however, that the board of supervisors shall 



