NINETEENTH ANNUAL YEAR BOOK— PART IT 89 



The President: I will say the reason we do not have an audit- 

 ing committee to go over the accounts of the secretary and 

 treasurer is that the law makes the Department of Agriculture a 

 state institution and as such the state accountant audits the books 

 and makes a report to the Executive Council of the state. Jle has 

 just gone over the accounts and filed his reijort with the Execu- 

 tive Council. 



The President : Yesterday on the program of the County Fair 

 Managers' Association, we were to have had a paper by Mr. E. 

 J. Curtin of Decorah, but unfortunately Mr. Curtin was not very 

 well and could not appear at that time. I am satisfied most of 

 the members who were at the meeting yesterday are here this 

 morning, and as Mr. Curtin is here now we should be pleased to 

 have him read his paper at this time. The sul\iect of Mr. Curtin's 

 paper is "Wdiat Position Should the State Tairs Take Towards 

 the Proposed Horseman's Protective Association?" 



E. J. Curtin. Decorah. 



Mr. iVesident and Gentlemen: I will say in this connection 

 that this is not the paper that I was to prepare for the meeting 

 yesterday. I was to prepare a paper on the subject of state aid 

 not being permitted those wdio did not send a representative to 

 this meeting, but in Chicago' last week 1 read a paper to the 

 American Association of Fairs and Expositions on the su])ject of 

 the fourteen points of the Horsemen's Protective Association now 

 being formed, and I was asked to substitute that for the other 

 one. However I was ill yesterday and could not give it. I will 

 explain this paper by saying that this relates entirely to the state 

 fair work, although it does apply to the county fairs in the same 

 way, and that is why in all the references you will find the words 

 "state fair'' used. 



WHAT POSITION SHOULD THE STATE FAIRS TAKE TOWARDS 

 THE PROPOSED HORSEMEN'S PROTECTIVE ASSOCIATION? 



'BY E. J. CURTIN, DECORAH. 



Mr. President and Gentlemen: No doubt, you have all heard, that 

 wherever horsemen have gathered together at fairs or race meetings, during 

 the past season, the subject most discussed by them has been the ques- 

 tion of forming a Horseman's Protective Association to look after their in- 

 terests. Most of them will tell you that they do not get justice from the 



