TWENTIETH ANNUAL YEAR BOOK— PART III 269 



not working for Iowa in the same spirit of the Missourian who was 

 raising hogs and feeding them acorns and letting them run around 

 in the timber. An Iowa farmer was driving by in his automobile 

 and he saw these hogs and he said : 



"You have a lot of hogs here, brother. What do you feed them ?" 



"I feed them acorns and pig nuts, and they grow pretty good." 



"They don't seem to be very fat, do they?" 



"Oh no, they don't get very fat, but they grow." 



"How long does it take you to raise a hog down here?" 



"Sometimes we let them grow for three or four years." 



"Why don't you feed them corn ?" 



"We don't raise corn." 



"Why don't you raise corn?" 



"What's the use raising corn, let the pigs feed themselves." 



"Don't you know, if you raised corn and fed your pigs properly, 

 you could get a mature hog in a year?" 



"What's the advantage of that? What's the use of that?" 



"Why, you save time." 



"Oh," he said, "what's time to a hog." 



You have overcome that spirit of lethargy in the state of Iowa 

 through these organizations ; you have realized that the betterment 

 of conditions and progress in agricultural pursuits shall be the 

 results of your combined efforts, and when you count the results 

 of your activities along the line of development you know that 

 your efforts may be added to the general result rather than sub- 

 tracted from that general result. I don't know of any other enter- 

 prise in the state of Iowa more productive than this fair organiza- 

 tion, and when the farmers are organized throughout the state how 

 much more they will be interested in the advancement of agriculture 

 smd the finest products of the soil as they are brought to the fair. 

 L want to congratulate you men not only on the great work you 

 are doing throughout the state, but upon the entertainment that 

 you have put on here for yourselves and your guests, of which I 

 have had the pleasure of being one. 



I thank you. 



(Several further vaudeville acts were shown at this time.) 

 The Chairman : We would like to hear from Mr. Curtin about 

 the feature of added money for racing. 



