NINETEENTH ANNUAL YEAR BOOK— PART III IGl 



Q. And the insurance is old-line. 



A. We carry no insurance. 



The Chairman: Is there any one else that we missed? 



Voice: Hamilton county. 



Q. Hamilton county. What town? 



A. Webster City. 



Q. You haven't been conducting a fair there, have you? 



A. Just the last year, 1918. 



Q. Have you received county aid? 



A. No, sir. 



Q. And your insurance is — what? 



A. We have none 



Q. Are the grounds owned either by the association or by an indi- 

 vidual? 



A. We used private grounds last year. 



Q. You are renting them, in other words? 



A. Yes, sir. , 



The Chairman: Is there any other county that we missed? 



Voice: Jefferson county — Fairfield. 



Q. Do you receive county aid at Fairfield? 



A. We have had $1,000 this year, but up to this time we have received 

 pay only for the educational exhibits. The premiums on that sometimes 

 run from $50 to $150, whatever it was. Our insurance is in the old-line 

 company. 



The Chairman: Any one else? 



C. E. Cameron (Buena Vista) : While on this subject, I want to say a 

 few words. As long as we are in the legislative business here, we had 

 better look out. I find there are a great many associations here that 

 have been getting county aid for several years who do not own their own 

 grounds. The law provides that those associations not owning their own 

 grounds are entitled to a maximum of $1,000, and then they are done. 

 The first thing we know some board of supervisors will get next to it 

 and they will make us pay it all back. I think the law ought to be 

 changed. Under the present law the board of supervisors has no right 

 to appropriate beyond $1,000. The law as it now stands provides for a 

 maximum of $1,000, as I understand it, and it looks to me that that is an 

 old, obsolete law that has been on the books for twenty-five years, to 

 my knowledge, and I think that it ought to be changed., We don't want 

 to be caught up on that. Here is a fair that has been getting $60iT a 

 year for county aid, while technically speaking the board of supervisors 

 hasn't any right to appropriate that, because it says you must not ap- 

 propriate to exceed $1,000, and it seems to me that some action ought 

 to be taken with regard to that matter. I don't know of any more ap- 

 propriate time to have it changed than this winter, because there is p^I- 

 ways a cry for more food and more production. We have all been doing 

 our part, and we have talked about our county agents, for instance, and 

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