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ucts must be materially increased in price or the things he is 

 obliged to purchase must stand somewhere near the same per- 

 centage of reduction he has been obliged to accept on his prod- 

 ucts. 



Corn sold as high as $1.60 to $1.80. We will admit that 

 possibly this was an unreasonably high price, perhaps just as 

 far from its real value as 25 to 30 cents is at this time. I recent- 

 ly overheard the following conversation between two gentle- 

 men, coming out of a restaurant. One asked the other if he had 

 had a good meal ; the answer was that he should have had, as he 

 had eaten three bushels of corn. 



There is no reason why the railroads should get more for 

 transporting a bushel of corn to the seaboard than the Iowa 

 farmer gets for raising it. There has been too much alarm 

 about some of our railroads going into bankruptcy and too little 

 consideration given to the farmer who is, or w411 be, in bank- 

 ruptcy. The railroads should do their share of bringing the 

 country back to normal, the same as the farmer has had to do. 

 An industry as well organized as our railroads, generally is 

 quite able to protect itself. It is only through the help of the 

 Iowa Farm Bureau that the farmer has received the protection 

 that he has been able to get. 



The dairy farmer has suflered less in the readjustment 

 than any other branch of the agricultural industry. Dairy prod- 

 ucts have not depreciated in price in the same proportion that 

 grain, cattle and hogs have. This matter will be treated at 

 greater length in another part of this report. 



TUBERCULOSIS IN OUR DAIRY HERDS 



A great advance has been made in cleaning up our milk 

 producing herds within the last two or three years. Possibly, 

 in no other year have as many applications been filed request- 

 ing the tests as in the year just drawing to a close. The fact 

 that the Thirty-Ninth General Assembly put a provision in the 

 law giving preference to dairy herds had a good effect. Be- 

 sides this, the new law gave cities and towns greater authority 

 than they had ever before enjoyed to enact ordinances having 

 for their purpose the regulation of the milk supply. 



House File No. 361 reads as follows, and is of no little im- 

 portance to those who are interested: 



Cities and towns, including cities under special charter, in addition 



