142 IOWA DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 
STATEMENT OF EXPENSE AND PREMIUM WARRANTS ISSUED 
DURING THE FISCAL YEAR ENDING NOV. 30, 1908. 
Improvement and repairs: 
Water system $ lO.oo 
Extension of electric light and power plant 1,834.30 
Streets 999.O4 
■Walks 278.69 
Second section of horse barn 10,221.91 
Administration building 31,648.76 
Trees and shrubbery $ 68.63 
New roofing 41.5. dO 
Reselling race track 114.60 
Painting 629.32 
Hardware 478.65 
Lumber 316.22 
Moving old buildings 320.00 
Sewers 293.22 
Amphitheater 230.45 
Turnstiles and exits 130.10 
Sheet metal w^ork 220.91 
Ticket offices 51.00 
Score board 40.00 
Remodeling poultry building 871.76 
Fixtures for post office ^0.00 
Horse barns 2,388.66 
Furniture for dining hall 295.45 
Grading 380.60 
Stock pavilion 103.55 
New tools, implements and vehicles... 233.20 
Miscellaneous 1,048.97 8,670.99 $ 53,663.69 
Expenses other than for improvements of fair: 
Insurance 1,670.00 
Fair grounds maintenance 1,509.00 
Expenses committee on noxious weeds 17.13 
1907 bills paid in 1908 151.38 
State Farmers' Institute and Agricultural Con- 
vention 175.27 
Board meetings 757.70 
Clerk hire 360.00 
Miscellaneous 334.60 4,975.08 
Expense State Fair and Exposition of 1908: 
Postage 703.50 
Advertising 7,485.63 
Meetings of executive committee 584.75 
Expense special committee work 1,065.04 
Express, telegraph and telephone 313.32 
Printing , 1,961.15 
