PROCEEDINGS STATE AGRICULTURAL CONVENTION 89 



sory arbitration clause. The reason lie gave for opposing compulsory 

 arbitration was that there is no connection between the board that de- 

 cides the revenues the railroads are to receive and the expenditures 

 to be made for labor. 



October 12 has again been set as the date for the annual member- 

 ship drive. District meetings will be held in each of the eleven con- 

 gressional districts, at which a worker from each township is requested 

 to be present, as well as the Farm Bureau officials and others, so that 

 everyone who goes out in the drive will T3e able to thoroughly explain 

 the work. At the board meeting which was held, Mr. A. L. Middleton, 

 of the U. S. Grain Growers, Inc., explained the status of their organiza- 

 tion at the present time, and from his statement, it seems likely that 

 the work of the organization in Iowa will start within the next month or 

 six weeks. He stated that the Grain Growers has practically received 

 the O. K. of the secretary of state, but as yet the finance corporation of 

 the Grain Growers is not in shape to meet the approval of Iowa regu- 

 lations. It is likely that the Grain Growers will hold a school of in- 

 struction some time during the month. 



WOMEN AT THE IOWA STATE FAIR 



After spending several days at the Iowa State Fair, we came home with 

 the conviction that in order to get anything out of the fair, one must have 

 some real interest in the problems that are being analyzed. The very day 

 we spent six hours in the women and children's building and went home 

 marveling at what is being done in the way of grouping together the in- 

 terests pertaining to child welfare and the home, we heard a woman who 

 had spent half an hour there cautioning a friend: "Don't go to the women 

 and children's building; all you hear there is the crying of children, and 

 all you see is a hot mob of women and children straining their ears to 

 hear what is being said on the stage." 



For those who did not get to the fair, we will briefly outline the points 

 that interested us: 



Beginning at the top floor, in the home economics department, it was a 

 very interesting bit of hallway. From the posters on the stairway with 

 their informative verses to the table where milk soups were being served 

 daily — squash, spinach, carrot and other milk soups that are different. 



Then the rats — usually not special subjects of interest, but these two 

 stuffed rats were there to demonstrate the value of milk in the ration. 

 One rat had received milk in his ration, the other had not, and the milk- 

 fed rat was three times the size of the other. 



There were photographs also of rats, with the explanation: "These 

 two rats were the same age and size and were started on a test, the diet 

 of each being the same except for protein. Protein was supplied to No. 1 

 from wheat flour only, resulting in a slow growth. To No. 2 protein was 

 supplied two parts from wheat flour and one part from milk. The rat 

 made a normal growth. In both cases the percentage of protein and the 

 nutritive value of the two rations were the same. Milk protein made the 

 difference. 



