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seed meal. After the cottonseed meal has passed through the 

 cattle it has lost practically all its poisonous effects. Of course 

 if it is fed in very large quantities it might cause trouble, but 

 under ordinary circumstances if it doesn't leak through the 

 trough there will be no difficulty. 



Mr. Crofoot : What condition should the corn be in for fill- 

 ing the stlo, green or pretty dry? 



Professor King: We like to have it as dry as possible, to 

 keep well. This year I don't believe there was one blade in a 

 dozen but what was dry, and I opened quite a number of the ears, 

 and there were not more than three or four grains on the aver- 

 age that were not fully dented. That is a little bit drier than I 

 like to have it; if I had it to do again, I would put water in. 



President Sykes announced the following committees : 



Resolutions — Ralph Sherman, George C. White, W. J. Reed, 

 Henry Brady, R. M. Gunn, R. Warburton, D. W. Anglum, J. 

 A. White, C. B. Snyder, J. C. Wyckoff, Warren Nicholas, C. J. 

 C. Cold. 



Memorial — A. L. Ames, S. M. Corrie, F. T. Swearingen. 



President Sykes then introduced "Uncle" Henry Wallace, 

 editor of Wallace's Farmer, who addressed the convention as 

 follows : 



ADDRESS. 



HON. HENRY WALLACE, DES MOINES, IOWA. 



Mr. President and Gentlemen of the Association: Verily it is good 

 to be here. I have known this association from its beginning. I have 

 known its aims, its motives, and its sacrifices. As I have been listening 

 to the discussions this afternoon, it seems to me you are now getting 

 down to brass tacks. This association has been a power for good in 

 Iowa in more ways than I can tell you — more ways, perhaps, than you 

 know. It has formed a bond of union between the breeders and feeders 

 of beef cattle. It is the beginning of a bond of union that should take 

 in, as one of the presiding speakers has said, every man who grows 

 corn in the state of Iowa. You gentlemen furnish the market for a 

 large part of the corn and the large part of the forage; therefore, the 

 corn growers should look upon you as a friend and a brother. You have 

 done a great deal, besides, in the way of reducing rates, in securing 

 justice, in causing officials to respect not merely the Iowa meat pro- 

 ducer, but the Iowa farmer. You have done much to put the name of 

 Iowa away up. The men from the east who have visited me recently 

 are surprised at the number of men from Iowa who are doing big things 

 in the east in matters political, industrial and commercial, and they 



