138 IOWA DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



MEETING OF THE STATE BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. 



Friday Morning, August 26, 1904. 



Board met at call of President Morrow, and on roll call the 

 following members were found to be present: Morrow, Cam- 

 eron, Simpson, Brown, St. John, Packard, Legoe, Wragg, 

 Ledgerwood, McDonald, Pike, Wadsworth and Johnston. 



Mr. E. M. Moore of Orchard Lake, Michigan, appeared before 

 the board and made complaint in regard to the disqualification of 

 his sheep in the show ring by the judge. After hearing Mr. Moore, 

 and statement of Mr. Pike, Superintendent of the Sheep Depart- 

 ment, the following communication from the judge was read: 



To THE Board of Managers, Iowa State Fair: 



Gentleman,— In the case of Mr. E. M. Moore, who was an exhibitor in the 

 Delaine class of Merino sheep, there is a complaint by Mr. Moore that he 

 was not properly treated in his exhibit, bein^ discriminated against 

 by me. 



I believe his sheep to be a cross-breed sheep, having a strong Spanish or 

 American Merino cross, thus making him ineligible for exhibition in the 

 Delaine show. I asked him for evidence of their purity of blood; he replied 

 that they were registered in one of the Delaine registers. I asked him for 

 his evidence of this, and he said that he would have to send for it. He also 

 said that all the best breeders in Ohio and Pennsylvania are now crossing 

 these two families of Merinos and the produce are being accepted in both 

 the American and Delaine registers of Ohio. He did not deny the claim I 

 made of them being a cross-breed sheep, but justified the cross by the im- 

 provement it made over the original Delaine type. This I concede, but my 

 object was to protect your Delaine classification by not letting in ineligible 

 sheep. Mr. Moore's sheep, if proven to be pure Delains, I would pronounce 

 a better sheep than those they were competing with. He withdrew from the 

 show ring, in place of continuing in and immediately demanding a ruling 

 from the board. 



His conceding that his sheep were cross-bred only corroborates my judg- 

 ment when his sheep were first brought in the ring. I do not want to impose 

 any hardship upon Mr. Moore, and if anything can be done in your judg- 

 ment, to relieve him, I shall be entirely satisfied. 



It is a question whether the judge should protect the innocent exhibitor 

 in his honestly classed animals, or throw him entirely upon his own resources 



