PART III. 



IOWA SWINE BREEDERS. 



ANNUAL SESSION OF THE STATE ASSOCIATION 



CONVENED AT DES MOINES, IOWA, JUNE 



16, 1903. 



By C. C. Car lift, Special Representative of the Twentieth Century Farmer. 



OFFICERS OF ASSOCIATION. 



Harvey Johnson, President, Logan. 



B. R. Vale, Vice President, Bonaparte. 



J. A. MUNSON, Vice President, Maxwell. 



George S. Peine, Secretary and Treasurer, . . . Oskaloosa. 



EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE. 



W. Z. Swallow, W. D. McTavish, I. C. Reese. 



IMPORTANT POINTS DISCUSSED. 



The obligations of siwine breeders and the moral aspect of their business 

 methods were discussed. Boom prices and "trade" sales were depre- 

 cated as harmful to breeder and farmer alike. Swine breeding and 

 corn growing were shown to be interdependent industries, each suc- 

 cessful only through the progress of the other. The place occupied by 

 corn in the feeding list of the breeder is entirely different from that of 

 the feeder. Views of the practical experimenter and those of the scien- 

 tific man. What is being done by the scientific experimenter toward 

 producing a variety of corn that shall be a balanced ration in itself, 

 and how the practical man on the farm is making use of those crops 



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