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Third, that cattle feeders generally are pretty thoroly disgusted with 

 a good many "feeder cattle market practices," and wish them remedied. 

 Individaully, the cattle feeder can not reform the game; collectively, he 

 has a splendid chance. It's worth the price of organization to try some 

 of these things. 



There are a good many other things on my mind in regard to cattle 

 feeding problems, but I will reserve them for the present. We have plenty 

 of propositions to work out and execute as the matter now stands. Let's 

 be up and doing; let's do our own work well, put more study on co-oper- 

 ation and co-operative methods, and then let's begin at once to practice 

 co-operation, co-operation— ever bearing in mind that a job worth doing is 

 worth doing well. 



There are always some folks who say others are fools for trying to do 

 things, fools for thinking on certain things, fools for doing what they 

 do, and in this connection I have gained much encouragement and con- 

 solation and real inspiration from a motto which hangs in the office of 

 the editor of Forbes' Magazine, New York City, a successful, two-fisted 

 magazine edited by a Scotchman, B. C. Forbes, who, by the way, was 

 called "all sorts of a fool" when he gave up a highly-paid financial editor- 

 ship — the best paid in the United States — to start this magazine of his. 

 The motto reads: 



"They said it couldn't be done. 

 But he, poor fool, didn't know it, 

 So he went ahead and did it." 



Mr. Brockway: There is a resolution I would like to offer to 

 send to Mr. Evvard at this time, to send him a message of good 

 cheer, etc. 



The President: If there are no objections v^e vi^ill entertain it. 



Mr. Brockway: Resolved, that we much regret to learn of the 

 ternporary illness of Prof. John M. Evvard, and direct the president 

 of this association to send him a message of sympathy, and express 

 our hope that he may speedily recover. 



The President : You have heard the resolution — is there a second 

 to it? 



Motion seconded, and on being presented was unanimously 

 adopted. 



The President: The committee on resolutions will consist of 

 J. M. Brockway, of Letts; S. M. Corrie, of Ida Grove; Will Lar- 

 rabee, of Claremont; Dave McLaughlin, of Washington; W. P. 

 Dawson, of Aurelia; Joseph Coffman, of Guthrie Center; Warren 

 Nichols, of Minerva ; Ralph Sherman, of Grinnell ; Emil W. Weise, 

 of Ellsworth, Minnesota. 



The convention then adjourned for lunch. 



