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different plan. At both of these pool and liquor privilege is sold. The 
Texas Fair runs two weeks; has from twenty-five to forty bookmakers 
working, who pay from one to two hundred dollars per day for the privi- 
lege; has racing on three Sundays, when the attendance is universally 
larger than upon any other day; and a bar occupies most of the space 
under the amphitheater (this also being the case at Detroit.) This will 
explain why certain other fairs show larger receipts than low^a. However, 
the time is coming, and very quickly, when these concessions will be 
excluded from such exhibits. 
STATEMENT OF ACCOUNT. 
RECEIPTS AND DISBURSEMENTS, IOWA DEPARTMENT OF AGRI- 
CULTURE, FOR THE FISCAL YEAR ENDING NOV. 30, 1908. 
RECEIPTS. 
Cash balance Dec. 1, 1907 $ 35,327.90 
From rentals and miscellaneous collections by the 
Superintendent of Fair Grounds $ 1,309.09 
From state appropriation for insurance 1,000.00 
From interest 862.85 
From fees, division of horse breeding 1,054.00 
From miscellaneous receipts 37.01 4,262.95 
By receipts from 1908 low^a State Fair and Exposi- 
tion: 
From entry fees, speed department 6,079.10 
From sale of exhibitor's tickets 2,614.00 
From sale of forage 4,362.15 
From various live stock breeding associations for 
special premiums 1,700.26 
From revenues in concession department 20,259.71 
From stall rentals, stock departments 3,144.10 
From rental of light and power 394.95 
From rental of space in machinery, agricultural 
dairy and women's departments 4,686.85 
From miscellaneous sources 628.09 
From sale of tickets 94,895.45 $138,764.66 
$178,355.51 
DISBUESEMEXTS. 
To expense warrants paid by Treasurer: 
Issue of 1907 and former years $ 7.19 
issue of 1908 and former years 114,340.72 $114,347.91 
To premium warrants paid by Treasurer: 
Issue of 1907 and former years 122.00 
Issue of 1908 and former years 38,556.87 $ 38,678.87 
To cash balance Nov. 30, 1908 ' 25,328.73 
To balance disbursements $178,355.51 
