Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-12-21
.LEolskATURE TO be ASKED FOR
APPROPRIATION FOR NEEDED
s5> IMPROVEMENTS.
WOULD PROVIDE FOR
NEEDS FOR SEVERAL YEARS
Plan !. to Have Certain Sum Avaiiabis
Annually For Five or Six Years to
Carry Out Campaign Of Improvement
and Expansion' - Present Facilities
Are Found to BE Inadequate.
cial TO Times Republican.


pose of meeting the cost of improve
ments which the state board Of agri-
culture hopes to make on the Iowa
State Fair grounds i'll the next few
years the legislature will this winter be
asked to make an appropriation ex-
tending over a period of five or SIX
years with certain sum payable seacn
year. INSTEAD of asking for money for
one certain building the board will ask
for a sum large enough to meet the
improvements contemplated in the next
few years and part Of 1t will be used
each year.
The board sets out this plan in a re-
port just filed with the governor and
recommends that provision be made
for setting aside a certain definite sum
annually for period Of five or six
years to he used in carrying out the
plan.
improvements in Contemplation.
The improvements contemplated by
the board include the completion OF the
permanent cattle barn Of which three
sections have already been built, the
whole to stable 1,480 head OF cattle I'M
der. one roof; the completion Of the big
brick and steel horse barn, which viii
provide stalls for LOO horses and pom
les; the erection of an up-to- date dali
Fly building for exhibits in connection
with this growing industry, including q
model creamery, ice cream plant and
demonstrations of mechanical milking
and COW testing.
The plan Of the board also includes
building for horticultural and foricul-
t1ral exhibits, the enclosing and com
pletion of the space to the rear OF, the
grand stand. an addition to machinery
hall to provide space for an automobile
show and a poultry building.
Appropriations For Several Years.
1.-THE board realizes that these vari-
Gus improvements can not be accom- :
plishedsiH a year nor in two org thrscs
years "Isaid Secretary Corey today. SIT.
will take i've or six years at least. BttF
it is good business to look ahead and
prepare the way. If the legislature
will appropriate sufficient sum to
make these improvements, extending
over a pefiedsof I'VE orssixS years with
certain amount availabJe esch year.
it Will do away with TIL lsnecesaity sof
an extraSagant sum at any one time
and make it possible to let building
contracts to much better advantage
than otherwise.
"This plan has worked out success
fully and given excellent satisfaction
in other states. New York, for in
stance.qa few years ago, appropriated
100000 To be ased; in eqnipping their
state sfair .gtpunds one fourth Of
which,: 1900. 900, was available each
year for. sfohr years. The plan will
tasSfi xsil In Iowa as in any other
state and will insure the continued
growth, influence and expansion Of the
greatest agricultural fair in the coun-
try"
Present Facilities inadequate.
At the recent meeting Of the state
board Of agriculture the experienced
members of the board declared that
provision must be made to accommo-
date the rapidly increasing number of
cattle and horses that show each year
at the Iowa State Fair. 1t is matter
that can not be postponed any longer,
board members declared. 1t was
pointed out that more than 1900 cat
tie and 500 horses We're on exhibition
at the 1916 fair. It was stated that the
present facilities were so inadequate
for stabling such a large number OF
animals that the officials were driven
other wits end to accomplish the
task. And while they did everything
possible under the circumstances the
eleventh-hour. make-shift arrange.
ments were far from satisfactory to
owners OF valuable animals.