104 TwENTY-FlEST BlENNIAL RePOET 



The following accounts show a decrease in expendi- 

 tures : 



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Shows and Hippodrome 500.00 



Traveling Expenses 300.00 



Police and Labor 500.00 



Discount and Interest 700.00 



Premiums 4,000.00 



In submitting last year's report, it was suggested 

 that the amount of money offered for premiums could 

 be materially reduced, without seriously affecting either 

 the quality or character of exhibits. In apportioning 

 the money for this year's exhibit, the Board of Agricul- 

 ture ordered a reduction of ten per cent, from the total 

 amount of premium money offered for each department. 

 This order was carried out as far as possible, and ex- 

 tended to nearly every department. It resulted in a 

 saving of $4,000.00 to the fair, and in the opinion of those 

 best informed, did not materially hurt the exhibit in any 

 department. On the contrary, the exhibit as a whole by 

 far surpassed anything that was ever before assembled 

 on the State fair grounds. Only in the Beef and Dairy 

 Cattle Departments was there an appreciable falling off 

 of exhibits, and that, as everyone knows, was due to the 

 foot-and-mouth disease situation. In every other depart- 

 ment the entries were larger and the exhibits were super- 

 ior to any that had ever been shown at this fair before, 

 with the possible exception of the Educational Depart- 

 ment. For some reason, the secondary schools have not 

 been sufficiently interested in making the exhibits in this 

 department as creditable and as numerous as they should 

 be ; in fact, instead of the exhibits increasing from year 

 to year, they seem to have fallen off. In all the other 

 departments along special educational lines, such as the 

 Stock- Judging Contest, Boys' Corn Club, Boys' Pig 

 Club, Farm Boys ' Encampment and Girls ' Canning Club, 

 etc., there was a noticeable increase in interest, in the 

 number of entries received and in the benefits apparently 

 derived from them. 



The race meeting was by far the best in the history 

 of the institution, and its value as a free attraction can 

 best be attested by the throngs of people which filled 



