170 IOWA DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 



WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 13. 



Morning Session, 



President Sykes presiding. 



Secretary Wallace presented his report as follows: 



SECRETARY'S REPORT. 



Receipts for the year $5,544.28 



Expenditures — 



President's salary $1,800.00 



President's expenses 619.70 



Secretary's office, salary and cleric hire 1,000.00 



Directors' expense 114.38 



Expense of annual meeting 95.35 



Clifford Thorne, balance due for services rendered 



prior to January 1, 1911 700.00 



Witnesses' expense 40.12 



Furniture — filing case 27.90 



Tent at state fair 9.65 



Printing 372.20 



Postage 148.75 



Correction of error 2.00 4,930.Oi 



Balance on year $ 614.23 



We had last year, as you will remember, a deficit of approxi- 

 mately a thousand dollars, which was due to Mr. Thome for ser- 

 vices he had rendered. You will note that we paid him this year 

 $700, which pays that in full, so far as we are concerned. The 

 other $300 is to be contributed by the Co-operative Grain Deal- 

 ers' Association. They have already paid $150 of that, and a 

 letter from their secretary last week informed me that they would 

 pay the other $150 within two or three weeks. I may say in 

 connection with that that when we entered an appearance in 

 that fight to prevent the advance in rates, we took up the matter 

 with that association and asked them to join with us. They are not 

 quite so mobile as this association; they can't act quite so quick- 

 ly; but Mr. Messerole, the secretary at that time, said that he 

 would be personally responsible for at least $300. and he felt 

 that his association would back him up in that, which they have 

 done. Later, when we got farther into the case, the Grain dealers 

 employed Mr. George C. White, whom you know — a member 



