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years 1884 and 1886 of 2,012,000. I want to show how the receipts 

 have increased in Chicago in the face of these outside markets. In 

 1877 Chicago had 4,000,000 hogs; last year we had 7,000,000. In 

 1877 Chicago had 810.000 sheep; last year we had 6,000,000. 



I think no state has contrihuted to the markets like Iowa; you 

 have kept us filled up there in Chicago ; and while yoii were doing 

 that you were contri])uting to St. Paul, Sioux City, Omaha and 

 St. Joseph. 



I want to ask Professor Pew if the cattle fed at Iowa State Col- 

 lege were fed at a profit. 



Professor Pew: I think all two-year-old cattle are fed at a loss. 

 Our yearling cattle have been making gains at a profit. 



ADDRESS BY HENRY WALLACE. 



The President : I want to say concerning our next number on 

 the program that the speaker is one of the men in this state 

 whom we all love. We have been interested in him, as well as he 

 in us, for a great many years. We have listened to him orally, 

 and we have read and analyzed and digested his editorials for a 

 great many years: He is a man wdiom I suppose, without reflect- 

 ing any on the speakers who have preceded him, we would all go 

 farther to hear than any other man who could talk to us. That 

 man is Uncle Henry Wallace, editor of Wallaces' Farmer. 



Mr. Chairman: The greatest trouble I have in life is to keep people 

 from thinking that I know more than I do. I suppose the universal ex- 

 perience is that when a man is young he is not properly appreciated. It 

 is a great misfortune for a man to get more reputation than he really 

 deserves. 



I am not going to discuss the technical questions that you have been dis- 

 cussing. I have never in an afternoon — except in church — heard as much 

 good, sound sense as I have heard this afternoon from practical men 

 who know what they are talking about. I was very much interested in 

 Captain Smith's address, and I suppose the more so because many of 

 the points he brought up are things that I have been teaching for 

 a good many years. We have been feeding our cattle too much grain; 

 we have been throwing it away in trying to make rapid gains — of course 

 at a loss. We have to learn to do what the Englishman and the Scotch- 

 man and Irishman do — fatten our cattle more out of the rack and the 

 silo than with a scoop shovel. Another thing we will have to learn is 

 to save waste. We are the biggest robbers on the face of the earth, and 

 it does not become you farmers to find fault with the lumber fiends that 

 have robbed our lands of the lumber, or the coal men who are wasting 

 their material in mining. I believe the manure production — the dung 



