PART IV. 



PROCEEDINGS 



OF THE 



Joint Session of the Annual State Farmers' 

 Institute and Corn Belt Meat Pro- 

 ducers Association 



HELD AT 



Savery Convention Room at the Savery Hotel, Des Moines, 

 Iowa, on December 12-13, 1911. 



TUESDAY, DECEMBER 12. 



The meeting was called to order by President Sykes, and prayer 

 was offered by Rev. J. P. Jamieson, of the Elmwood United Pres- 

 byterian Church, of Des Moines. President Sykes then presented 

 his annual address, as follows : 



PRESIDENT'S ADDRESS. 



A. SYKES, DES MOINES, IOWA. 



Let me extend to you all a hearty welcome, and assure you that we 

 feel your presence here is a manifest of your interest in this splendid 

 work and an inspiration to the officers in charge. 



The burden of preparing another annual address and report for your 

 association has again fallen to my lot, and I shall again attempt to per- 

 form this humble duty. When I prepared my last annual address, I 

 had fully expected to i-etire from the head of your association, and con- 

 fidently expected that I would not be again called upon to perform this 

 task. But fate seemed to decree otherwise, as I was re-elected against 



