PART V 



PROCEEDINGS 



OF THE 



Annual Meeting of the State Farmers' Institute, 



House Chamber, State House, Des Moines, 



Iowa, Tuesday, December 10, 1912 



The meeting was called to order at 1 :30 p. m. by Mr. C. E. 

 Cameron, President of the State Board of Agriculture. In open- 

 ing the meeting President Cameron said: 



I am sorry that our crowd is so limited today. Heretofore it has been 

 customary for us to meet with the Corn Belt Meat Producers Associa- 

 tion of Iowa, and hold a joint session. At the last moment, the Meat 

 Producers Association decided not to hold their meeting at this time, but 

 later in the new year, and we have a counter attraction in the District 

 County Fair Association, 



Now, I have prepared a program and it gives me pleasure, gentle- 

 men, to introduce to you this afternoon, as the first speaker, Mr. Thomas 

 H.' MacDonald, who will speak to you on "Iowa Roads and Their Fu- 

 ture Improvements." 



Professor MacDonald: I did not expect to deliver this talk in the 

 presence of such a distinguished company this afternoon. 



You all can impersonate the men that will be sitting in your places 

 a few weeks from now, and I hope that the men who do occupy these 

 places will give us favorable consideration of some of the important 

 matters of road improvement, as I believe they will. Before beginning 

 the paper that I have prepared for this afternoon, I want to call your 

 attention to the road convention that we will have next week in Des 

 Moines. This convention, while it is a delegate convention, made neces- 

 sary by the experience of a few years ago, all of the presidents and sec- 

 retaries of county institutes are delegates thereto, and it is our hope to 

 bring together in convention the men over the state from each county 

 who are the most interested in road improvements. We have prepared 

 really three programs. First, is one we call our suggestions for legis- 

 lative program, and that is a program in which different lines of legis- 

 lation will be taken up and discussed briefly by several men on each 

 topic, and then thrown open for discussion by all the delegates. It is 



