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per sow is plenty. If you limit the amount, you save money. 

 Never self-feed tankage when the grain ration is limited. Your 

 pocketbook would soon be empty 



The President: Now, gentlemen, we will have to close this dis- 

 cussion, interesting and instructive as it is. (Applause.) 



The next speaker on the program this afternoon is Mr. W. A. 

 McKerrow. Mr. INIcKerrow was formerly a Wisconsin man con- 

 nected with the live stock industry there. His father, prior to 

 him, was also a live stock man. At the present time Mr. ]\IcKer- 

 row is manager of the Central Co-operative Commission Company 

 at St. Paul. He was a member of the Farmers' Live Stock Mar- 

 keting Committee of Fifteen. I have known our friend for a num- 

 ber of years, and have nothing but words of praise to speak of 

 him. I am not going to enlarge on his work, because I don't want 

 to take his speech away from him, or make it, and at this time, 

 without further remarks, I am going to introduce to this audience 

 W. A. McKerrow, of St. Paul. ]\Ir. McKerrow. (Applause.) 



FUNDAMENTALS OF CO-OPERATIVE SHIPPING AND SELLING 

 By W. A. McKerrow. 



Mr. Chairman and Gentlemen: I have not prepared an address or a 

 speech, because we have been contending with a worl^men's strike at South 

 St. Paul, and the various other duties that have required my attention dur- 

 ing the past quite a long time. 



I always like to come into the state of Iowa, and I have been coming 

 into this state ever since I was eight years old. I think the first time I 

 came to your state fair with my father we brought a bunch of sheep, and 

 I have been coming into the state nearly every year since, and have al- 

 ways felt as though this great old state of Iowa stood out conspicuously 

 in the development of agriculture, because her farmers are producers of 

 the best class of live stock in America. Why? Because her farmers are 

 alert to the progressive movements that are for the benefit and for the 

 development of this great industry. You are interested in the breeding 

 of pure-bred live stock, and, as I remember it, I believe you lead in very 

 nearly every class of live stock that we have, with the possible exception 

 of dairy cattle, about which Wisconsin likes to boast. And when I think 

 about the progress you have made in the breeding of high-class live stock, 

 it reminds me of my friend, or rather his observation when he was over 

 in Great Britain. As you know, in Great Britain the kings and the dukes 

 and the lords, and all of the noted personages take pride in their live 

 stock and they are live stock producers, and at the English Royal every 

 year the king or queen, whichever it may be, reviews the live stock, and 

 this friend of mine picked up that little paper, Puck, and in it was a car- 

 toon showing a great champion Shorthorn bull in the ring being inspected 

 by a little dapper duke, standing by and admiring him, saying what a won- 

 derful wealth of flesh, what a great loin, what a great quarter, and what a 



