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more reason why the Iowa State Fair should be where it is today, than 

 there is for the fair in Illinois or Indiana, or Wisconsin or Minnesota or 

 Missouri being where they are, so far as the states themselves are con- 

 cerned, for they are all equally good states. There is not one iota of 

 reason why you should have a better fair than those states, but there is 

 a difference, and the difference is that they have permitted from time 

 to time politics to get into them. I mean politics to this extent — they 

 have felt that the organization was running for the express purpose of 

 giving somebody a job. And, gentlemen, that is the only thing in my 

 opinion that has put the Iowa State Fair where it is today. You have 

 tried to conduct it as a business proposition. 



And that is why I think you people in Iowa are to be congratulated 

 and it is a fact which is recognized by the American fairs and exposi- 

 tions, and it is the truth, that Iowa is looked upon as standing foremost 

 of all the excellent state fairs and expositions in this country. 



I thank you! 



The Cliairnian : This completes our program. The next will be 

 the report of the Committee on Credentials. Mr. Mullen is chair- 

 man of that committee. The s?cretary will not read the report 

 of the Credentials Committee and call the list of members who are 

 entitled to vote. 



REPORT OF COMMITTEE ON CREDENTIALS. 



We, your committee on credentials report the following- list of delegates 

 entitled to vote at the State Agricultural Convention, December 12, 1917. 



JOHN P. MULLEN, 

 H. C. LEACH, 

 E. G. STRONG. 

 FARMERS' INSTITUTES. 



Calhoun County B. E. Morton, Rockwell City 



Cerro Gordo County R. A. Holman, Rockwell 



Franklin County Earl Ferris, Hampton 



Franklin County T. W^. Purcell, Hampton 



Page County E. G. Strong, Clarinda 



Poweshiek County Ge3. T. Stone, Brooklyn 



SHORT COURSES. 



Madison County W. D. Patterson, Winteraet 



COUNTY AND DISTRICT FAIRS. 



Adair County F. A. Gatch, Greenfield 



Adams County Agricultural Society F. G. Ree-se, Corning 



Benton County Agricultural Society J. W. Hanna, Vinton 



Black Hawk-Cedar Valley District Fair and Exp.. . H. S. Stanberry, Cedar Falls 



Black Hawk Dairy Cattle Congress E. S. Estel, Waterloo 



Bremer County Fair Association J. W. Bennett, Janesville 



Buena Vista County Agricultural Society Roy H. Wilkerson, Alta 



Calhoun County Fair Association C. G. Ka.skey, Manson 



Calhoun-Rockwell City Fair Association F. M. Griffin, Manson 



Cedar County Fair Association C. F. Simmermaker, Tipton 



Cerro Gordo-North Iowa Fair Chas. H. Barber, Mason City 



Olayton-Strawben-y Point District Fair Society. B. W. 'Newberry, Strawberry Pt. 

 C!inton County Agricultural Society G. H. Christenson, DeWlitt 



