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up it could be remedied. The railroad companies should fix a place 

 where the caretaker of stock could get aboard the car and not have 

 to run all over the yards in the night. 



President Sykes: I think Mr. Smith's suggestion is all right. 

 While the boys on the Northwestern don't have much difficulty 

 in that respect, I know from what some of them on the other lines 

 tell me that they are bothered in getting to their way-cars. There 

 is no system at all about the roads. 



^Ir. Cold : Give us a law compelling the stock trains to stop 

 in front of the depot to let the stock men on. Mr. Smith's story 

 is exactly the experience that we went through — I think it was three 

 years ago — on the Great AVestern. Since then we have had no 

 trouble at all. If there is any bunch of us, we sit in the depot or 

 the yardmaster's office until the train comes along, but prior to 

 that we had an awful time. 



President Sykes: We will now listen to an address by ]\Ir. R. 

 ^I. Gunn, one of our own members. He is a big hog raiser and 

 feeder from Black Hawk county, and I am sure can give us some 

 information along the line of hog production and feeding. 



Mr. Gunn : I am old in this association, because I joined it in 

 its beginning; but my experience as a hog raiser does not extend 

 back over fourteen years — that is, my recent work. Of course, I 

 had worked with hogs ever since I was big enough to chase one, 

 and that is about thirty-five years ; but my only work with any num- 

 ber of them has been only about twelve or fourteen years. 



GROWING AND FEEDING HOGS. 

 R. M. GuxN, Black Hawk Couxty. 



With the eight-cent hog staring us in the face most of the summer and 

 fall, and likely to stay with us for some time to come, we naturally begin 

 to talk about him, and it makes the subject of hog feeding quite an 

 important one. 



Hogs are raised under many conditions in many parts of the world, 

 from the famous parlor hog of our ancestors to the piney woods hog of the 

 south. But we will content ourselves today with simply the Iowa hog, I 

 mean the four-footed one, and how we shall raise him. 



As meat producers, our aim should be to strive to produce meat as 

 cheaply as possible, not only for the good of our own pocketbook, but for 

 the good of the ultimate consumer we hear so much about these days. 

 Every farmer has his preference for a certain type of hog which he has 

 reasons to believe will the best fulfill his conditions. So the type of hog 

 will not concern us further than to say that we all want the hog that will 



