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Mr. J. W. Coverdale tendered his resignation as Secretary of 

 the Iowa Farm Bureau Federation on March 23d, and your pres- 

 ent Secretary was appointed to fill the vacancy by the Executive 

 Committee. The Executive Committee expressed their regrets 

 in the loss of President Howard and Secretary Coverdale who 

 had served the organization so faithfully, and the expressed good 

 will of the officers of the I. F. B. F. and the sincere well wishes 

 of the entire membership went with them into their new and 

 larger duties on behalf of the farmers of America. 



PRESIDENT 



President Hunt has given all of his time to the duties of his 

 office. The days have not had sufficient hours to enable him to 

 keep up with the demands made upon him during the nine 

 months that he has occupied the position of President. There 

 have been constant demands from the counties and commercial 

 interests of the State to address public meetings, and we feel that 

 he has been the one power that has contributed most to the 

 present day strength of the organization. His public addresses 

 before farmer audiences have given our membership a broader 

 vision of the work and a clearer conception of its aims and 

 objects. While these things help to strengthen our organiza- 

 tions, his talks before the business interests of the State have by 

 their sound doctrine brought every interest to a realization that 

 an organization of this kind for the protection of agriculture is 

 fundamentally necessary to the welfare of every other interest. 



SECRETARY 



Your Secretary assumed his duties without any preconceived 

 ideas of the work entailed in the secretaryship of an organization 

 with a membership in excess of one hundred thousand members. 

 The nine months of service in this capacity have been months 

 of absorbing interest as well as long hours. The recognition that 

 has come to this organization from all sources has had a ten- 

 dency to constantly increase the demand for service. The de- 

 tails of the office are numerous and necessarily cannot be en- 

 trusted entirely to subordinates. Early in the year it became 

 apparent that the work recommended by the Committee on Sup- 

 ply and Demand could never be of the greatest value unless all 

 States of the Mid-West could be induced to join in the work in 



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