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much as $281, and they have been resold at an average cost of 

 $271. 



Mr. Pike : Most counties have a pure-bred livestock associa- 

 tion, and some of them the secretary is the county agent, and I 

 would suggest that a copy of that letter go to the livestock asso- 

 ciations. 



Mr. Barber : I wanted to tell you about how we raised our 

 money for the calf club this year. The county agent has gone 

 out and bought the calves, and he has refused to buy any calves 

 except good ones. The livestock breeders have been very liberal 

 in selling calves — they run around $100, and he has bought only 

 good stock. We have offered premiums for Herefords, Short- 

 horns and Angus. We are offering the same premiums for the 

 calves of any breed, pure-bred, outside of Cerro Gordo county, 

 and we are offering champion and grand champion prizes, run- 

 ning about $300 altogether. We went to the five banks and the 

 clearing house in Mason City and got the money, and it hasn't 

 cost the fair association a cent. 



Mr. Clark : In reply to the question Mr. Shipman has asked, 

 as near as I can remember the premiums they aggregated about 

 $400. The total premiums given on the baby beeves. 



The President: Are there any other questions, gentlemen? 

 This is a very important subject and I am sure we are all getting 

 some good out of this. 



L. B. Urice: We have tried both pig and calf clubs. If you 

 want to start these under good rules and regulations, if you call 

 on the state college at Ames they will furnish you with the best 

 list of rules you can get. We had a little confusion this year on 

 different awarding of prizes in the finals, but if we had started 

 out right we would have avoided a great deal of the trouble from 

 the start. 



AFTERNOON SESSION, DECEMBER 7, 1920. 



Two O'clock, P. M. 



The President : Gentlemen, w^e will come to order now and 

 proceed with the program. There will be a little deviation from 

 the printed program, for the reason that some of the papers are 

 not just ready, so I am going to call on Mr. H. J. IMcIntosh, who 



