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PROGRAJSr. 



Thursday Morning, Januarj- 5, 1905. 



9:0U a. m. Meeting of Directors. 



10:10 a. m. Address — "Co-operation Among Live Stocli Breeders," Fred 

 H. Ranliin, Secretary Illinois Live Stock Breeders' Asso- 

 ciation, Urbana, 111. 

 11:00 a. m. Business Session. 



"The Indiana Association, Object, Plans, Etc.," J. H. Skin- 

 ner, Lafayette, Ind. 



The meeting will also be addressed by Ex-Senator W. a.. Harris and 

 others. 



All live stock breeders and feeders are Invited to attend the meeting, 

 and to become members. 



FIRST ANNUAL MEETING INDIANA LIVE STOCK 

 BREEDERS' ASSOCIATION: 



The first annvial meeting of the Indiana Live Stock Breeders' Associa- 

 tion Avas called together at the State House, Indianapolis, Indiana, on 

 January 5, at 11 a. ni., with President Will Robbins, of Horace, in the 

 chair. 



President Robbins: We have Avith us to-day Mr. Fred Rankin. ;Many 

 of you know him personally, and perhaps all of you know him by repu- 

 ta/tion. He has kindly agreed to come over here and tell us what he knows 

 about certain things in Avhich we are very much interested. I have the 

 pleasure, gentlemen, of introducing to you Mr. Fred Rankin, of the Uni- 

 versity of Illinois, Secretary of the Illinois Live Stock Breeders' Associa- 

 tion, who Avill speak to you upon the subject: "Co-operation Among Agri- 

 cultural Organizations." 



Mr. Fred Rankin: Mr. Chainnan and Gentlemen of the Indiana Live 

 Stock Breeders' Association: 



If agricultural advancement has been rapid in the immediate past, 

 it will not be less rapid in the immediate future. We are in the midst 

 of the movement , and a thousand new questions and readjustments are 

 up for settlement simply because agriculture is assuming new proportions 

 on the earth and entering into new relations among the affairs of men. 



Coiulitious ai'c umisually favorable just now for extreme develop- 

 nuiit in agiicultnre. There is great public interest in tlie matter; govern- 

 ments, state and national, are committed to the policy of public aid to 

 this end; the educational spirit of the times is in sympathy with indus- 

 liial and practical training. "liearn to do by doing" is the American 



