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the people of Iowa in such cases. Winning this case saved the people of 

 Iowa nearly two million dollars annually in freight rates, and it is 

 clearly the duty of the state to bear this expense. 



Resolved, That, realizing that scientific agriculture is the only means 

 of combatting the high cost of living and the depletion of our natural 

 fertility, Ave heartily commend to the people of Iowa the work done 

 by our agricultural college and experiment station, and we especially 

 commend the extension department in carrying scientific and practical 

 instruction to the farmers' homes. 



Resolved, Ihat we demand of our senators and representatives the 

 prompt enactment of a law which will give us a general parcels post, 

 and thus permit our citizens to use their own mail system as freely and 

 as cheaply as citizens of foreign countries are now permitted to use it. 



President Sykes : Rev. A. E. Kepford has a matter that he 

 wants to present for just a minute or two. 



Mr. Kepford : ]Mr. President and Gentlemen : Last night after 

 the banquet. Professor Holden came to me and said that he 

 wished I had spoken to the meat producers concerning a project 

 which we have had under advisement for a year. Professor Hol- 

 den has proposed that a tuberculosis' special train shall be run. 

 He would invite experts on tuberculosis to accompany it, and he 

 would have a corps of expert men from the agricultural depart- 

 ment who would speak to the farmers of this state concerning 

 tuberculosis in cattle and the methods by which it could be pre- 

 vented. At one time Professor Holden could have carried on a 

 project of this kind without asking particularly for anyone's in- 

 fluence, but under the present regime it is necessary to bring 

 certain influences to l^ear in order to have it go through. Pro- 

 fessor Holden asked me to present this matter to the members 

 of the Corn Belt Meat Producers' Association. You know the 

 influence you have, and where to bring it to bear, if you feel 

 favorable to the project ; that is, upon the educational board of 

 control, by suggesting that such a special would be a splendid 

 thing, and of great value to the meat producers and the industrial 

 interests of the state. 



President Sykes: I believe we are through with the routine 

 Imsiness of this meeting, and we are now ready for the election 

 of officers for the ensuing year. The first is the election of a man 

 for president to succeed myself. Nominations arc in oi'der. 



Mr. Swearingen nominated A. Sykes to .succeed himself. Tlic 

 nomination was seconded by Mr. Anglum and submitted to rising 

 vote by Mr. Swearingen, who declared the election unanimous. 



