PART IV. 

 PROCEEDINGS 



OF THE 



Joint Session of the Annual State Farmers' 

 Institute and Corn Belt Meat Pro- 

 ducers Association. 



HELD AT 



Savery Convention Room at the Savery Hotel, Des Moines, 

 Iowa, on December 7, 1909. 



A joint meeting of the State Farmers' Institute and the Corn 

 Belt ]\Ieat Producers' Association was held in the convention room 

 at the Savery Hotel, Tuesday afternoon, December 7, 1909, The 

 meeting was called to order at 1:30 o'clock p. m. by Mr. Sykes, 

 president of the Com Belt Meat Producers' Association, and the 

 following program given : 



Invocation Rev. Arthur Metcalf 



Address Hon. Henry Wallace 



"The Evolution of Live Stock Transportation" 



James Downing, of the U. S. Bureau of Animal Husbandry 



"Hog Feeding" R. M. Gunn, Black Hawk County 



A complete report of the foregoing addresses and discussions 

 follow : 



Invocation by Rev. Metcalf, of Des ^loines. 



President Sykes : Our first speaker on the program is a gentle- 

 man whom we have heard for years. He is one of our old land- 

 marks, a man whom we delight to honor, a man who probably has 



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