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We now come together as one large family, all with the same object 

 In view, viz.: To advance the swino industry. The program is gotten up 

 on purely nonsectarian lines. A paper is assigned some individual not be- 

 cause he is the promoter of some particular breed of hogs, but for the rea- 

 son that he has demonstrated at least some ability along certain lines 

 and through his paper we all get his ideas, v, hieh in turn brings out a 

 discussion that is still more valuable than the paper, for here we get a 

 collection of ideas which become the common property of all. 



Such topics are discussed as the different foods, grains and grasses, 

 sanitary conditions, selection, mating, care and a thousand and one things 

 that go to make up the list of details connected with the business, every 

 one has ideas on some subject that will interest some one else, the man 

 with hayseed in his hair has ideas the college professor probably has 

 more, but he has no monoiioly, and so by each contributing his mite we all 

 go home a little wiser than we came. 



While this association has unostentationsiy pursued the even tenor of its 

 way and unconsciously perhaps become so great a power for good I think 

 it is largely accounted for by the fact that they early came to realize the 

 meaning of the old phrase, "United we stand and divided we fall," a 

 lesson all must learn in order to advance. Even our religious teachers 

 have come to see that valuable time has been fooled away by expending 

 their energies in closed missions and close communion conferences, and 

 that if they expect to get next to the world they must come out in the 

 "free for all," and extend the right hand of fellowship to the other fellow 

 and get his ideas, and after getting them accord them the same respect 

 they exact for their own. This was strikingly exemplified a few years 

 ago at the world's congress of religions held in Chicago, where Jew and 

 gentile. Christian and pagan dropped, for a time at least, their creeds 

 and isms and met on a common level and prayed on a common ground for 

 at that time a precedent was established that has done more for the cause 

 of religion and humanity than any thing that had happened along that 

 line for the last one hundred years. 



In conclusion I will say I hope the same free unfettered spirit that has 

 prevailed in this association in the past will be the tattle cry of the 

 future and if I were to offer any suggestions for future guidance I would 

 say, while I do not claim there may not be weak spots, but the record 

 is good and anything that smacks of a radical change would be more 

 likely to weaken than strengthen, so keep on in the same unassuming 

 path and as faith, hope and charity are the three cardinal virtues I would 

 name as seconds what are being disseminated at these June meetings, 

 intellectuality, sociability and morality. A long life to the old Iowa Swine 

 Breeders Association. 



The program was opened with a most interesting paper pre- 

 pared hy Dr. John R. Mohler, Chief of Pathological Division, 

 Bureau of Animal Industry, Washington, D. C, and Dr. Wash- 

 burn, of the department. Dr. Washburn was present and de- 

 livered the address on the subject: 



