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Committee with power to act. On motion of Mr. Packard compen- 

 sation for all help and assistants for the Fair of 1907 was fixed the 

 same as that of the Fair of 1906. 



Considerable time was consumed in discussing- what permanent 

 improvements and repairs were needed at the State Fair Grounds 

 and what recommendations, if any, should be presented to the 

 Thirty-second General Assembly asking for appropriations for such 

 work. It was agreed by the Board to recommend that an appro- 

 priation be made by the Thirty-second General Assembly to cover 

 the expense of a swune barn and show pavilion and steel con- 

 structed amphitheatre, and for the purchase of twenty acres of land 

 lying north of the present race track. The exact amount for each 

 of the several items to be determined after plans had been prepared 

 and estimates made by the architects. The Executive Committee 

 was instructed to have plans and estimates made at once and when 

 plans and estimates had been completed by the architect to have 

 bills drawn and presented to the General Assembly for said appro- 

 priation. 



On motion Board adjourned until 9 o'clock a. m. the following 

 day. 



i\lEETiNG OF State Board of Agriculture. 



Friday, December 14, 1906. 



Board met at 9 o'clock a. m. with following members present: 

 Cameron, Brown, Simpson, Johnston, St. John, Phillips, Packard. 

 Curtiss, ^IcDonald, Olson, Pike, Wright and Storms. 



Minutes of the Board meeting of Thursday read and approved. 



Mr. J. R. Sage, Director of the Iowa Weather and Crop Service, 

 was before the Board and discussed proposed changes in his de- 

 partment, which, if adopted, would necessitate a discontinuation of 

 the present manner of co-operation with the Government Weather 

 Service. 



On motion of Mr. Packard the matter was referred to the Exe- 

 cutive Committee. 



The revision of the premium list w^as then taken up. ]\Ir. Cur- 

 tiss presented revised classification for the Horse Department rec- 

 ommending an increase in premiums amounting to approximately 

 !f;2,500, and on motion same was adopted. A detailed statement of 

 the classification as adopted will be found in the premium list for 

 1907. 

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