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committees to do that. I think that is a splendid idea. We will 

 leave that then entirely with the committees after they are ap- 

 pointed. They can work that out. 



We are now adjourned until 1 :30 p. m., sharp. 



Afternoon Session 



The President : Now, gentlemen, if you will please come to 

 order, we will open our afternoon session. 



Now we have with us a man that the most of you have met, if 

 not all. If you haven't, you have read about him — a man that 

 has been connected with our college for a great many years, has 

 been one of the foremost leaders in the live stock industry of the 

 state, a man to whom we all love to listen and to associate with ; 

 and at this time I am going to introduce to you Dean C. F. Cur- 

 tiss, dean of our State Agricultural College, who will address you 

 at this time on "What the Iowa State College Is Doing for the 

 Live Stock Man." 



WHAT THE IOWA STATE COLLEGE IS DOING FOR THE 

 LIVE STOCK MAN 



BY DEAN C. F. CURTISS 



Mr. President and Gentlemen: I am pleased to be with you for a 

 short time to discuss some of the problems of general interest in which 

 you are engaged and of vital concern to agriculture and the industries of 

 Iowa. The topic assigned me is the one which ithe president has just 

 announced, and we have constantly in mind problems pertaining to Iowa's 

 live stock interests and agricultural interests, and everything connected 

 with agriculture, in fact, and are endeavoring to work with you in co- 

 operation with you and to help you in some of the problems that bear 

 directly upon your work. In enumerating these, I will not attempt to 

 cover all of them, but I will touch upon some of the more outstanding 

 lines in which investigations have been conducted. 



In the matter of gathering or harvesting the corn crops and converting 

 it into meat products, during the past year about seven per cent of the 

 corn crop of Iowa, or approximately 721,000 acres, has been hogged down, 

 as we call it — it has been gathered in the field by the hogs. Now, on 

 the basis of five cents per bushel, which is probably less than the cost 

 when you consider everything, that has resulted in a saving of $1,600,000 

 in the expense of harvesting the corn crop alone. Now the experiment 

 station at Ames does not claim the credit for all of this, because this is 

 an old practice. It was practiced years ago when corn was much cheaper 

 than it has been recently and when it was thought that it did not matter 

 if they did waste some corn — that they could afford to gather it that 

 way. And then the practice almost entirely went out of use until here 

 recently during times of high-priced labor, owing largely to the result 

 of work conducted by the experiment station in calling attention to it 



