FIFTEENTH ANNUAL YEAR BOOK— PART X 743 



REPORT OF THE ANNUAL MEETING OF THE IOWA BEEF 

 PRODUCERS' ASSOCIATION. 



The annual meeting of the members of the Iowa Beef Producers Asso- 

 ciation was held in Des Moines in the parlors of the Savery hotel on 

 the afternoon of Friday, January 15th. 



At this meeting resolutions were adopted favoring a liberal appropri- 

 ation by the state for the purpose of securing and taking care of a 

 strong representation of Iowa live stock for the Panama-Pacific exposi- 

 tion. A legislative committee was appointed to work in harmony with 

 other live stock interests of the state to secure such appropriations and 

 also to secure further appropriations for the support of the work of 

 the Beef Producers Association. 



The following resolution drawn in the form of a telegram was adopted 

 and sent to Senator W. S. Kenyon at Washington, D. C: 



Be It Resolved, By the Iowa Beef Producers Association now in session 

 at Des Moines, Iowa, that it is the sense of this association that all 

 animals destroyed by the government in the eradication of foot and 

 mouth disease should be paid for in full damages to the owners thereof 

 at their actual value and not at beef prices as heretofore adopted. 



(Signed) C. F. Curtiss, 



A. C. BiNNIE, 



H. O. Weaver, 



Committee. 

 The association representative. Rex Beresford, presented the following 

 report of the year's work of the association: 



REPORT OF WORK FOR 1914. 



The active work of the Iowa Beef Producers Association began March 

 8, 1912, with the completion of the organization and the hiring of an 

 association representative at that time. The first two years' work of 

 the association up to January 1, 1914, is described in the detailed reports 

 for 1912 and 1913. 



For 1914, under the direction of the board of directors and the execu- 

 tive board, the work of the association has been along the lines of in- 

 vestigational work, publicity work, fairs, shows and institutes, and special 

 train work. During 1914 investigational work was carried on largely 

 through May, June, July and August, partly through visits to farms 

 and partly through reports from farms visited in previous years. 



Figures on production costs on thirty-nine farms producing baby beef 

 have been compiled. These show that they grew and fed out in 1913-14 

 1,046 calves which were sold at an average weight of 864 pounds at six- 

 teen and one-half months of age. The average price per cwt. was $9.20, 

 and the average price per head $78.48. The average cost per head was 

 $65.50, leaving a direct profit of $12.98 per head after all costs of pro- 

 duction were paid, aside from labor. 



