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thought I raised pretty fair corn, but I realize that I might improve a 

 good deal more. Take nine million eight hundred thousand acres of 

 corn and see what you can increase your crop by the proper selection 

 of corn by one bushel to the acre. What does it mean? It would mean 

 three hundred thousand dollars to the State of Iowa. If you increase 

 it five bushels to the acre that would make one million five hundred 

 thousand dollars. I say that hogs and corn aro a vital part of the 

 material wealth of Iowa, and it is, therefore, essential that we should 

 study the best methods of increasing our returns from them. There 

 are three sources of wealth in the world — the sea, the soil and the miue. 

 We raise the corn from the soil and great wealth is brought from the 

 sea and the mines. When an individual can, by improving the few acres 

 of land that he may have, increase the value of his own pocketbook, he 

 adds to the material wealth of the State and enables the farmers to 

 increase their incomes also. It is certain that if his income becomes 

 depreciated the income of other people becomes depreciated also. I say 

 that it is right that everyone should be interested in this great sub- 

 ject of the development of corn. 



In the discussion following this paper \[r. Prine said : 



While we are all so interested in hogs we are certainly interested 

 in what we feed them, and if we can learn more about corn we should 

 <io so. I would like to see these two associations blended. We need 

 it and we can do it, and we can just as well do it now and in this 

 meeting as any time. I would like to see the corn interest incorporated 

 with this Iowa Swine Breeders' Association. It would be interesting 

 and our working together would be to our advantage. So let us take 

 up the work along this line and incorporate the corn association. 



Mr. Lee said : 



If there is any way possible by which I can in the fall get from 

 my corn that which will keep me from having to buy shorts and bran I 

 will be glad to find the way. I believe that it is a great opportunity 

 indeed, and if there is any science in it I would like to get a little of it. 

 I have tried to get good seed corn. A great seed corn was advertised 

 and I sent for some and planted it. But I had some of my own that I 

 had been saving for thirty years, and planted some of that. In the fall 

 my own corn proved the better. The very fact of the difference between 

 the hog of today and the hog when I was a boy reveals what can be done 

 by culture, by study, by thought, and I see no reason why this new 

 thought that has come to us of breeding the best corn', why great im- 

 provement can not be made. If there is any way that we can produce 

 corn with more protein we should do it. I find that I can produce 

 better hogs with corn than without it. The kind of hog you raise 

 depends upon what you feed him and when and how. 



''The Coming- Hog," was the subject treated by W. D. McTav- 

 ish of Coggon, Iowa : 



The coming hog will, of course, be a product of the future, and as 

 such will necessarily have to meet the requirements of the conditions 



