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Oskaloosa writes around our place, and the fair rate is naturally higher 

 than the farm rate would be, and they don't carry it. We are in a stock 

 company. The county supervisors do not live in our neighborhood and 

 they don't like to spend the money in our part of the county. 



Kossuth (Algona) : Not represented. 



Linn (Marion) : 



We get county aid, and insure in old-line companies. We got. $400 

 this year and $800 last year. 



Louisa (Columbus Junction) : 



We have never asked for county aid, and we carry old-line insurance. 



The Chairman: Never tried to get it? 



A. No, but I am going to try when I get home. 



Lucas (Derby) :, No representative present. 



Mahaska (Oskaloosa) : 



We have never received any county aid. We made application I think 

 the lirst of the year three years ago when tlu^y organized and they were 

 turned down. We insure in an old-line company. 



The Chairman: Have you ever made application to your mutual com- 

 pany ? I 



A. No. we have not. 



Q. You don't know whether they would reject your application? 



A. No, I don't know that they would. 



Q. You will find it mighty beneficial, if you can make it. 



Marion (Knoxville) : 



We have received no aid and haven't asked for any, and we are in- 

 sured in an old-line insurance company. We are going to ask for aid 

 and we are going to get it, too, Mr. Chairman. 



Marshall (Marshalltown) : 



E. T. Austin: The county owns our grounds and the association the 

 buildings. We haven't asked for aid, only in the way of fencing and 

 things like that., We carry old-line insurance. I couldn't say whether 

 we have ever tried the mutual or not, and Mr. Clark didn't, the secre- 

 tary handles that, and I know it is all old-line. 



The Chairman: I might say that at Marshalltown I was talking with 

 Mr. Clark not long ago and he said they were going to get the aid there. 

 They have never asked for county aid there, but they got the county to 

 build fences and roads and things of that kind, on the grounds, which 

 is better than the county aid. They macadamized all of the roads inside 

 of the grounds there, didn't they? 



Mr. Austin: Yes; and we worked the North- Western one year, too. 

 They hauled the rock for us, and after we got the rock to us they told 

 us they couldn't do it. 



Monroe (Albia) : Not represented. 



Muscatine (West Liberty) : 



Mr. Shipman: We never asked for county aid and never got it. V\''e 

 carry our own insurance. We don't insure. 



