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Mr. C. E. Cameron: Yes sir; because that is what has been killing our 

 game more than anything else. He would enter in the "twenty-five" trot 

 and pay his entrance fee, and then he would have to pay to enter the 

 "thirty" trot. Otherwise, if one fee covered both entries, when we pulled 

 off the "twenty-five" trot the winner would get all the entrance fees, and 

 when the "thirty" came along there would be nothing left, and you would 

 be up against it. 



Mr. M. E. Bacon (Clay): I think this Iowa association of County Fairs 

 is large enough that during the February meeting in Chicago of the 

 American Trotting Association, where all these details are brought up, 

 we could afford to send one or two or three representatives to that meeting 

 and confer with them, because it will be a benefit to all the county fairs in 

 the state of Iowa upon this proposition, and upon the proposition that Mr. 

 Cameron brought up, of making the horse eligible at the time the entrances 

 are closed for the fair. It is my opinion that when the American Trotting 

 Association rheets In Chicago in February we ought to have a representa- 

 tive there. 



George White (Mills): I was just going to remark, with regard to 

 closing dates and eligibility, suppose some circuit has four or five meetings 

 and they all close on the same date, — how would you work that? If a horse 

 gets a record one week, would you set him back to the close of the next 

 week? What we are trying to get with this record bar is the making of a 

 record three or months before. 



The Chairman: Estimating the set-back and the bar, as I understand 

 it, and make them eligible at the time they close. 



Ed Allen (Indianapolis): I haven't anything to say except just as Mr. 

 Cameron and this gentleman talked. It is a bad thing, there is no question 

 about it, of allowing a horse to get a record of 2:12 in July, and then in 

 September get into a 2:30 trot. 



The Chairman: I think this matter will be covered pretty thoroly in 

 the resolutions, and we ought to pass on to the afternoon program. The 

 first thing on the program this afternoon is a paper entitled "Our Experi- 

 ence With Our First Fair", by M. E. Bacon, Secretary of the Clay County 

 Fair, Spencer, Iowa. 



M. E. Bacon (Clay) : At this time, gentlemen, I wish to pay a compli- 

 ment to the officials and officers of the Clay county fair. I was informed 

 that there wasn't a man on the fair board who had any fair experience 

 before, but they certainly carried their program thru without any hitches, 

 and it seems that every man placed in charge of the different departments 

 was the right man for the place. They worked hard, and the business 

 men of Spencer did their part by closing their stores and helping to make 

 the fair a success. 



This paper was wished on me by Mr. Lauer, secretary of this organiza- 

 tion. Mr. E. S. Perry, former secretary of the Clay County Fair was the 

 one originally selected to present this subject, but, after I was selected 

 secretary, succeeding Mr. Perry, I fell heir to the paper. I have been 

 secretary of the Clay County Fair Association for only 3, little over a 

 month. 



