16 IOWA DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 



divided $578.51 for trotters and $269.41 for pacers. The trotting division 

 has nine entries paid up and the pacing division five. The secretary was 

 instructed to submit bid for $250.00 for the trotting division and $100.00 

 for the pacing division. 



The communication from Mrs. W. H. Snider, chaii'man of the Program 

 Committee of the Women and Children's Building was brought to the 

 attention of the committee. The plan for carrying out an exhibit in the 

 Auditorium of the W. & C. Building, to be known as Conservation and 

 Buying or a Style Review covering clothing for girls from six to ten 

 years old, high school girls, college girls, business women, clothing for 

 homemaker in garden, kitchen, living room and on the street was ap- 

 proved and authority was given Mrs. Snider to pay the traveling and 

 living expense of Miss Dodson of the clothing department and the lady 

 who is to do the lecturing in connection with the exhibits. 



The committee also agreed to equip the kitchen and dining room in the 

 Baby Health Contest Department, which is used as a private dining room 

 for all the ladies connected with the building. 



The secretary was authorized to purchase five tons of granulated cal- 

 cium chloride at $28.00 per ton plus $9.60 per ton, freight from Detriot 

 to Des Moines, to be used in laying dust on race track during auto races. 



The proposition submitted by Professor Berry and Professor Ferrin 

 relative to bringing thirty or forty stock judging teams of five boys 

 each to the Iowa State Fair for the purpose of selecting the team to 

 compete at the Interstate Fair at Sioux City, and the International Live 

 Stock Show, Chicago, this fall, was brought to the attention of the com- 

 mittee. The committee appropriated $200.00 to be offered as prizes in 

 this contest, providing Professor Berry secured $300.00 in contributions, 

 a sufficient amount to pay expense of the winning team to Sioux City 

 and the International. 



The proposition for putting on a county agent camp during the 

 period of the Iowa State Fair was discussed by the committee It was 

 agreed if the county agent leader, Mr. Coverdale, would endorse this 

 camp and direct the agents to attend that the fair management would 

 grant free admissions to the county agents, provide an assembly tent 

 for conferences and to give the county agents a good location in the 

 camp grounds. 



The secretary was directed to receive propositions and let contract 

 for puttying, sanding and painting columns on the porch of tho- 'W. & C. 

 Building. 



The secretary was also authorized to purchase six electroliers at $26.00 

 each and have same placed around triangle east of Administration 

 Building. 



The request of J. U. Walker, Swan, Iowa, and several others, to put 

 down cement platforms for their tents in the camp grounds was granted. 



The secretary was authorized to purchase approximately 16,000 gallons 

 of road oil containing not less than 50% asphalt at 7.625, with 1% diiScount 

 in thirty days, and to have same laid on the streets of the fair grounds by 

 the Hawkeye Road Oiling Company at three-fourths cent per gallon, we 

 to furnish teams for hauling road oiler. 



