950 IOWA DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 
Any county or district agricultural society, upon filing with the 
auditor of state affidavits of its president, secretary, and treasurer 
showing what sum has actually been paid out during the current year 
for premiums, not including races, or money paid out to secure games 
or other amusements, and that no gambling devices or other violations 
of law were permitted, together with a certificate from the secretary of 
the state society showing that it has reported according to law, shall 
be entitled to receive from the state treasury a sum equal to forty 
per cent, of the amount so paid in premiums up to five hundred dol- 
lars, and ten per cent, additional of the amount paid in premiums over 
five hundred dollars; but in no case shall the amount paid to any 
society exceed the sum of three hundred dollars. When any society 
fails to report, according to law, on or before the first day of Novem- 
ber, that society shall not receive a warrant from the state auditor for 
that year, but the secretary of the state board of agriculture shall 
notify the county auditor of the county in which the society is located 
of such failure, and the board of supervisors may appoint a delegate 
to the annual meeting or state agriculture [agricultural] convention, 
said delegate to be a resident of said county. Whenever one hundred 
(100) citizens of any county in the State that does not have a county 
or district fair, receiving the state aid as above provided, or that in 
any year may not hold a county fair, shall organize what is known 
as a "short course" with a president, secretary, treasurer and execu- 
tive committee of not less than five members (5) and shall hold a 
session, of four (4) or more days at some place within the county and 
give a program, designed to promote the science* of agriculture and 
cDmestic science, said "short course" organization upon filing with the 
auditor of state by its president, secretary and treasurer a statement 
showing what sums it has actually paid out in value for premiums dur- 
ing the period of the short course of that year, together with the certifi- 
cate of the secretary of the state board of agriculture showing that it 
has reported according to law as provided in cases of county and district 
agricultural societies, shall be entitled to receive from the state treas- 
urer a sum equal to forty per cent of the amount paid in premiums, 
but in no case shall the amount so received in any county exceed two 
hundred dollars ($200.00). The payment from the state treasury 
herein provided for shall be made by warrant of the state auditor as 
soon as due proof is made to him of the holding of said "short course" 
as herein provided; and there is hereby appropriated out of any money 
in the state treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum necessary 
to pay the amount contemplated in this section. [27 G. A., ch. 43, 
§ 1.] [28 G. A., ch. 59, § 1.] [33 G. A.] 
Sec. 1672. Printing and clistribution. There shall be printed four 
thousand copies of the report, which shall be bound in muslin covers, 
uniform in style with the reports heretofore made, which shall be dis- 
tributed by the secretary of state, as follows: Six copies each to the 
governor, lieutenant-governor, secretary of state, auditor, treasurer, 
attorney-general, judges of the supreme court, and each member of the 
general assembly; one hundred to the agricultural college, five copies 
