The Redwood gazette., 1919-11-19

Mr.. Stensvad also called attention
| to the fact that while the total amount
paid out for premiums for the fair
| during these years amounts to $11,-
564.35 the amount refunded by the
state for the payment of these pre-
miums has amounted to $8, 8,543.O7,
leaving considerable amount each
year TO be paid from the funds of
the Society The State makes these
refunds on the percentage basis and
the maximum amount which may be
paid to anyone fair is 81 800. Since
premiums have been increased all
| over the state this percentage has
consequently been lowered and the
| increased deficit has necessarily had
to be made up from other resources.
Following the explanation of the
| tabnlated figures, Mr.. Stensvad made
! the following suggestions and rec
concentrations:
These figures plainly show that
the fair is not only self-supporting
enterprise but a paying investment
to the Society. But it must be kept
growing and IN order to keep pace
with this growth it needs more equip
ment. We need several things and
need them badly.
''The first need is more room for
the hog exhibit. This year the ex-
lhihits were quartered in temporary
pens, ard suggest that we fit the
/ frame barn with pens to make per-
maneTt room for the big increase in
/ this display
eThis remodeling Of the frame
| barn will necessarily mean the erec-
! tion of another cattle barn. In or
der to get proper location for this
ne wbarn, parallel with the other
cattle barn and the correct arrange
ment for future enlargement of the
grounds, the racing stalls should be
i removed to the other end of the
grounds where they should properly
have been built in the first place.
"We also need a poultry house; al
SO an addition to the grandstand over
on the east end. We need new
! two-stOry Judges stand placed on the
kinside of the track, combining the
Judges and the timers stands so as
! not ITO interfere with the view from
/ the graadstand.
"The school building is entirely too
small. The last two or three years
! the exhibit has been divided, part Of
it being placed in the general ex-
h;bit building. The school quarters
should be large enough to not only
| take care of the complete exhibit, but
| should contain raised platform and
aisles roomy enough so that all club
4 demonstration work can be done IN
this building. This would do away
with demonstrations on the grand
stand platform where much of the
value of this part of the program is
| lost.
s"The carrying out Of these sugges-
tions means the expenditure of mon
ey. The best way, in my opinion,
to raise this money is to sell more
stock. distributing it through all
parts of the county. The outlying
sections Of the county have taken
more interest in it recently than ever
before. Since few of them are in
terested it is certainly possible for
more of them to be interested to the
point Of helping the fair to grow and
prosper.
ssConsidering the big benefit which
| the fair has been to the entire coun-
/ ty. the Board of Commissioners has
not been generous in its apprOpria-
tions. The highest appropriation we
have had is $500 which is just half
of what the most Of the counties are
given.
because of the size to which the
fair has attained it may be advisable
for the society to make some changes
in the management. Superintendents
Of departments should be paid salar-
les, and IN this way made to feel an
increased responsibility for the sue
cess Of their individual departments.
The fair should be organized into
groups, Cor instance, livestock
group, which will include all horses,
cattle, hogs, sheep and poultry; an
amusement group, covering bands,
free attractions, ETC.; a concession
group, combining the concessions and
the machinery exhibits, and so on
until all phases of the fair are
grouped. Then over each group there
should be q supervisor who would
be responsible for al departments in
his group.