272 IOWA DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 



from fair receipts. Two thousand three hundred seventy-five dollars of 

 the $12,000.00 state appropriation for additional land was used in pur- 

 chasing land adjacent to the grounds. Seven thousand dollars of this 

 appropriation is still in the hands of the state treasurer and $2,625.00 

 in the treasury of the Iowa Department of Agriculture, which is being 

 held until titles are perfected and the balance of the land that the depart- 

 ment wishes to acquire can be purchased or condemned. 



The management was successful in closing a desirable contract with 

 the Des Moines Electric Company, by which they furnished current for 

 light and power for the grounds. This necessitated the installation of a 

 transformer station, new switch-board, new street lights, and rebuilding 

 the entire line; also putting up insulated wire in place of the bare copper 

 wire which had been in use heretofore. The total cost of this new equip- 

 ment and installation of same was $9,673.70. There will be a credit to 

 this account of about $4,000.00 from the sale of apparatus in the old plant. 

 This change will make available three times the amount of current that 

 was possible to generate with the old plant. It might be well to state 

 that we had in use this year about 6,000 lights, and our light bill, in- 

 cluding payroll of trouble men, amounted to $782.00, while last year we 

 operated less than 3,000 lights with the old plant and the expense of 

 producing the current was $1,641.00. Under the contract we have entered 

 into, and with the equipment installed in the transformer station, we can 

 secure sufficient current to insure ample light for the grounds for the next 

 ten years at about twenty-five per cent of what it cost to maintain a plant 

 and produce it ourselves. 



The other expenditures for improvements are fully set out in the follow- 

 ing statement: 



ITEMIZED STATEMENT OF RECEIPTS A>'D DISBUKSEMEXTS OF THE IOWA DEPART- 

 MENT OF AGRICULTURE FOR YEAR ENDING NOVEIMBER 30, 1911. 

 RECEIPTS. 



To cash balance Dec. 1, 1911 $ 7,283.44 



Receipts from sources other than fair: 



Fees, Division of Horse Breeding $ 910.50 



Fair Ground collections, use of grounds, etc 1,624.36 



State Appropriation for machinery building, sani- 

 tary closets and additional ground 78,000.00 



State Appropriation for insurance and repairs... 1,000.00 



Interest on monthly balance 238.15 



Received from Street Railway Co., one-half ex- 

 pense painting street car entrance 78.75 



Miscellaneous receipts 273.96 



Light plant salvage 1,150.00 



Total receipts other than fair $ 83,275.72 



