PART VI 



PROCEEDINGS 



OF THE 



Annual Meeting of the Iowa Swine 

 Breeders' Association 



1906 



BY C. C. CARLIN, SECRETARY. 



OFFICERS.* 



WM. D. McTavish, President Coggon 



JOHN M. COX, Jr., Vice-Presidext Harlan 



J. A. BENSON, Vice-President Primghar 



C. C. CARLIN, Secretary and Treasurer Des Moines 



The annual summer meeting of the Iowa Swine Breeders' As- 

 sociation took place at Des Moines on Tuesday, June 5th, the pro- 

 gram taking up the entire afternoon and evening. President 

 McTavish opened the afternoon session with the following address: 



PRESIDENT'S ADDRESS. 



WM. D. M'TAVISH, coggon, IOWA. 



"I want to say to you that the importance of this Association to the 

 State of Iowa is increasing year by year. The United States, I under- 

 stand, produces one-fifth of the agricultural products of the world. In 

 the pork products of the world she has no second. In the pork products 

 of the United States, Iowa produces practicaly twice the number of hogs 

 of any other State in the Union. Illinois follows us and after Illinois 

 the number drops off very rapidly so that Iowa is the greatest swine 

 producing State in the world. She produces more hogs to the square 



* Election of officers occur.s during State Fair -week. See directory in 

 last part of Year Book for latest elected officers. 



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