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I can imagine a little turning up of the nose. However, the city depends 

 as much on the hog as the farmer; if the farmer is not prosperous, with 

 money to spend with the city merchant, the latter's business must neces- 

 sarily suffer. So it is an endless chain, always starting with the hog, and 

 the prosperity of the country can, in a great measure, always be traced 

 back to him. So I say, God bless the hog and the prosperity he brings. 

 I do net believe an assertion that every farmer in Iowa would become 

 bankrupt without the hog would be much out of the way. 



If I had any advice to give a young man about to embark in the swine 

 business (if I may be pardoned for assuming to advise), it would be: 

 Don't do it if you do not love the hog, or are not willing to suffer any 

 inconvenience and make any sacrifice that will better the condition of your 

 hogs. You should be perfectly willing to get up out of your warm bed 

 in the middle of the cold, raw, early spring nights to look after the 

 welfare of your young pigs that have just come into the world. And 

 more than that, stay up all night if necessary to save your pigs. If you 

 are not willing to make all these sacrifices it would be unwise for you to 

 attempt to raise hogs, for you surely would fail. 



I very much regret that upon the State Fair grounds there is not a 

 sufficient number of pens to accommodate all the breeders who desire to 

 show hogs. This will probably not always be so. In this connection I 

 wish to recall a letter I saw recently in the Breeder's Gazette, from the 

 Secretary of the Nebraska State Fair, in which he stated that all their 

 pens were already assigned, and in this assignment not more than nine 

 pens were given to any one exhibitor. If a similar policy was adopted 

 by the Iowa State Board of Agriculture, would it not be more satisfactory 

 to the exhibitors? It would not increase the show, but would certainly 

 give an opportunity for a greater number of breeders to become exhibitors. 



At the conclusion of Mr. Simpson's paper Mr. McTavish said: 

 "In my estimation that was a very able paper. ]\Ir. Simpson says 

 he is sorry not to have had time to do more, but I don't know 

 what he would have given us had he had more time. ' ' 



The next paper on the program was by Mr. Cox, Jr., on "The 

 Duties and Obligations of the Breeder to His Patrons: Guar- 

 antees. ' ' 



THE DUTIES AND OBLIGATIONS OF THE BREEDER TO HIS PA- 

 TRONS: GUARANTEES. 



.JOIIX M. cox, JR., HARLAX, lA. 



The duties and obligations of the breeder to his patrons are so numer- 

 ous and varied that I fear I will net enumerate all of them in this short 

 paper. 



First, let us see, what is a breeder? and, why is he a breeder? Have 

 we not gotten into the habit of calling every man a breeder who buys a 

 sow with a pedigree and raises a litter of pigs? And have we not also 



