PART VII. 



PROCEEDINGS 



OF THE 



Annual Meetings of the Swine 

 Breeder's Association. 



1909 



BY C. C. CARLIN, SECRETARY 



OFFICERS. 



L. H. ROBERTS, President Paton 



H, F. HOFFMAN, Vice-President WasMa 



HARVEY JOHNSON, Vki>Presidknt Logan 



C. C. CARLIN, Secretary and Treasurer Dcs Moines 



The summer meeting of the Iowa Swine Breeders' Association 

 for 1909 took place at Des Moines, Tuesday, June 15. The peculiar 

 conditions of the season operated to reduce the numbers of the 

 members in attendance to an unusual degree. Owing to the sick- 

 ness and absence of President L. H. Roberts, the duties of the 

 chairman were performed by Vice-President H. F. Hoffman, who 

 opened the afternoon session with the following : 



PRESIDENT'S ADDRESS. 



Gentlemen of the Iowa Swine Breeders Association: 



In opening this meeting I want to say I am pleased to see as many in 

 attendance as there are and wish the number was greater, I am particu- 

 larly pleased with the program our enteri:rising secretary has mapped 

 out for our entertainment this afternoon and evening. There are many 

 things to rejoice over and like most enterprises of this nature, there are 

 also some to regret, one of these is the inability of the president, Mr. 

 Roberts, to be in attendance and deliver his address. 



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