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very ranch. Our results take into consideration that waste. If 

 it is wasted, it is wasted. Everything that the pig gets is charged 

 to him, so that, even though there is a little waste, the advan- 

 tages that he gains more than offset it. 



In our experimental work, we start the tankage out the very 

 first day, but in practice, I would not do that. I think I would 

 take a week or so — ^just throw a little out in the trough and 

 gradually get them accustomed to what they are to take. 



Q. Any bad results from it? 



Professor Eward: No; we have never had any. 



Q. In your plan for a self-feeder, you feed from one side? 



Professor Eward: We have four or five different plans. We 

 will have a bulletin out in a couple of months, in which we will 

 have feeders that feed from both sides and one side. 



Q. I notice you figure the charcoal at three cents a pound. 

 Where do you buy it? 



Professor Eward: From Wittig & Company, of Milwaukee, 

 Wis., at $20 a ton, and pay the freight. 



A member : We have a club, and a neighbor who moved to 

 our community from Illinois, buys it and furnishes it, and it is 

 costing us a cent and a half a pound. It has to be ordered in 

 ton lots. It is a hardwood charcoal and exceptionally nice. 



Professor Eward : We charge three cents a pound to play 

 safe. They eat so little of it, that it would not make any differ- 

 ence whether you paid two cents or ten cents a pound. 



The President : I am going to change this program just a little, 

 on account of the fact that Mr. Stryker wants to leave on an 

 early train for Omaha ; so at this time we will call upon A. F. 

 Stryker, secretary of the Omaha Live Stock Exchange. 



ADDRESS BY MR. A. F. STRYKER. 



Mr. President and Gentlemen: Owing to tlie peculiar rate situation 

 which obtains at present, and the immense amount of work caused by 

 the hoof and mouth quarantine, I will be obliged to refer to notes. I have 

 not had the time to prepare and commit an address, which should properly 

 be the method pursued for a body of this kind. I assure you, I esteem 

 it an honor to be asked to address the Corn Belt Meat Producers' Asso- 

 ciation, for the invitation implies a request on your part that we come 

 and give you a partial account of our stewardship of your affairs on the 

 public markets. This I do with particular pleasure, for the reason this 

 is the first opportunity ever given a representative of the South Omaha 



