SEVENTH ANNUAL YEAR BOOK— PART X. 



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The agricultural interests of Iowa and the central west have lost a 

 staunch and capable worker in the death of the late D. B. Nims, which 

 occurred in November, 1906, at his late home near Emerson, Mills 

 county, Iowa. 



Mr. Nims has been an exhibitor at the Iowa State Fair for many 

 years. About twenty years ago he and his brother exhibited and won 

 premiums at the Chicago fat stock show upon a type of corn which they 

 had been working with for more than ten years. 



This new type of corn was the product of their effort to produce a 

 kind of corn best suited to their southwestern Iowa soil and latitude. 



They formed an ideal and kept that ideal constantly in their mind 

 as their standard. Many were their disappointments, but by a faithful 

 perseverance, prompted by an intelligent zeal and enthusiasm, they 

 evolved an exceedingly useful and distinct variety known as the Legal 

 Tender, now extensively planted over a large area of the surplus corn- 

 producing states. 



Mr. Nims will be long remembered by many friends throughout the 

 west. The Legal Tender is a splendid monument commemorating the 

 thirty years of patient care and labor in its development. 



His was a useful, enthusiastic, optimistic, helpful life. 









FUNCTION OF AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE. 

 L. B. ParshaU Before Jackson County Farmers' Institute, Canton. la. 



The executive board of the Farmers' Institute of this county have 

 obtained for this session of the institute the services of three distin- 

 guished gentlemen, all by chance, connected with the working force of 

 the School of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts located at Ames, Iowa. 

 One of these gentlemen addresses us on a feature of grain raising, an- 

 other on a feature of stock raising and still another on a feature of farm 

 mechanism. The presence of these gentlemen with us on this occa- 

 sion seems to the chair a justification for considering in a general way 

 "The Function of the Agricultural School in the Modern State." But 

 in order to state with some degree of clearness the function of the 



