TWENTIETH ANNUAL YEAR BOOK— PART II 105 



In explaining the educational part of the work he stated that it should 

 be the business of the state and federal organizations to educate the 

 consumers, while that of the county bureaus should be to educate the 

 producers, and that all farm bureau organizations — that is, the county 

 bureaus, the state federations and the federal organization — ^should in- 

 terest themselves in local, state and national legislation. The national 

 federation should naturally concern itself with the broader questions 

 that affect all; the state federations should take up matters pertaining to 

 state laws; while the county bureaus should see to it that men favorable 

 to the measures which the farm bureaus desire to have enacted into 

 laws are elected. 



The members expressed themselves as not in favor of the Kenyon 

 and Aldrich bills in their present form. They were inclined to be 

 lenient with the packers, but it was the sense of the meeting that some- 

 thing should be done to correct present abuses by the packers and that 

 the live stock market should be stabilized in some way. It was sug- 

 gested that it might be a good plan to have a committee appointed, 

 composed of two practical farmers who operate their own farms, two 

 consumers and one representative from the federal bureau of markets 

 or the packers. It was the sense of the meeting, as stated before, that 

 the packers should be regulated, but it should be done in such a way as 

 not to seriously affect the live stock market. Government operation of 

 the packing houses and stock yards was not favored. 



The matter of raising money for the state and national federation was 

 discussed and it was decided to put on a campaign to raise $250,000 for 

 these two organizations. At present the farm bureaus of Iowa have a 

 membership of 50,000 and it is confidently expected that this will be 

 raised to 150,000 by the first of next year, because it seems only to be 

 necessary to explain the work of the farm bureau to the farmers to get 

 them to join. In counties where active campaigns have been put on, fully 

 95 per cent, and sometimes more, of the farmers solicited have joined. 

 In no county have all the farmers been solicited to join, but they will be 

 this fall. 



The Iowa State College, in co-operation with the Polk County Cow 

 Testing Association, put on an exhibit of dairy cows in a tent that at- 

 tracted a great deal of attention. Some of the cows were furnished 

 by the college and others by the Polk County Cow Testing Association. 

 In front of the entrance to this tent was a rather striking arrangement 

 of milk cans and butter tubs. On one side of the door stood 41 10-gal- 

 lon cans, representing the amount of milk produced by a scrub cow in 

 one year — not a theoretical but an actual cow — and the exhibit would 

 have been still more impressive had the cow been standing beside It. 

 In addition to the 41 cans there were three 60^pound butter tubs, showing 

 the approximate quantity of butter produced by that same scrub cow In 

 a year. The actual products which this exhibit represented were 3,543 

 pounds milk and 190 pounds butter. It isn't every scrub cow that 

 produces as good a yield as this, but, as stated before, it did not rep- 

 resent the average cow but the products of a particular scrub cow that 

 was well cared for at the Iowa State College. 



