TWENTY-FIRST ANNUAL YEAR BOOK— PART VII 515 



CATTLE FEEDING PROBLEMS. 

 By John M. Evvard. 



My heart is saddened with the disappointment that comes in not 

 being allowed by my physicians and surgeons to spend these two days, 

 December 14 and 15, with you. Their word is law; I obey their injunc- 

 tions. 



It so happens that I am in the Mercy Hospital, at the home of the 

 university of which we may well be proud. The University of Iowa, a 

 sister institution to that at Ames, is doing splendid work. Here is located 

 one of the greatest medical colleges on the American continent — yes, in 

 the world. It is in the service of Doctor Dean and his associates of the 

 eye, ear, nose and throat department, that I now am. Doctor Dean heads 

 the medical college work in the university. This college does some most 

 wonderful work in surgery and in medicine. 



Hundreds of men, women and children from all over the state are 

 here, taking advantage of the opportunities offered. In accurate diagno- 

 sis, as well as in effective treatment, the faculty here are gaining much 

 renown, the reputation of the leaders in the various lines of work having 

 gained tremendously in the past ten years. It is unfortunate that there 

 are so many of us that do not really know that we have such a "Health 

 Mecca" of our own within our homeland state of Iowa. 



The Mayos of Rochester (I need not mention the state) have a nation- 

 wide reputation for good medical work. We of Iowa have our own "Mayos" 

 right at home, and the sooner and the more fully we all appreciate this, 

 the better will be the health and the greater the longevity of our Iowa 

 people. 



Naturally, as farming folks, our eyes have been largely centered upon 

 Ames, with the progressive colleges of agriculture, engineering, home 

 economics, veterinary science, industrial science and graduate work, and 

 with its forward-looking experiment stations and extension division. This 

 is fine, and but natural. But we must all recall continuously that we live 

 in a commonwealth of people having varied interests, and that man lives 

 not by agriculture nor home economics alone, but he lives in a wider 

 circle, a circle of many sectors, all important. We should not, must not, 

 neglect the law sector, the engineering sector, the child-welfare sector, 

 the commerce sector, the art sector, and above all the health and medical 

 sectors, if we would live out full and well rounded lives. 



Years ago, when these institutions of ours were founded, the one at 

 Ames and the other at Iowa City, if our forefathers could have discerned 

 the future with unerring vision, might it not be that today, instead of 

 having a geographical separation of common interests, we would be 

 blessed with a congregation of all state-wide educational interests at a 

 common place, one location, where, in homage to the future, we would be 

 developing, with all factions working on a unified program, to the end 

 that there be in this state one of the greatest universities of learning 

 and achievement in the nation? But these are dreams, dreams of what 

 might have been; so let us hasten to deal with the realities of the present 

 and the prospective developments ahead. 



