PART VIII 



PROCEEDINGS 



OF THE 



Annual Meeting of the Iowa Swine 

 Breeders' Association 



1912 



OFFICERS. 



President J. H. Watson, Madrid 



Vice-President B. F. Davidson, Menlo 



Secretary and Treasurer M. P. Hancher, Rolfe 



IOWA SWINE BREEDERS' ASSOCIATION. 



The thirty-first annual meeting of the Iowa Swine Breeders' 

 Association was held at Ames, Iowa, in the AgTicultural Building 

 of the Iowa State College, Tuesday, June 11, 1912. 



After calling the meeting to order, President J. H. Watson, 

 of Madrid, Iowa, gave a short address. 



PRESIDENT'S ADDRESS. 



"On this, the thirty-first annual meeting of our association, I congratu- 

 late you upon the bright prospects in store for you who are fortunate 

 enough to have a few hogs. Disease has greatly reduced the number of 

 hogs. The bad March weather made it very difficult to save many pigs 

 and consequently the number of hogs at this time of year was never so 

 small. With these conditions, it is only reasonable to expect hogs to sell 

 higher. I believe we will see all the high price records broken this 

 season. 



"There is one phase that I wish to call your attention to that is cost- 

 ing farmers many thousands annually. That is what I call the no-purpose 

 method of breeding. Mr. Breeder has a very good herd of hogs but he 

 becomes dissatisfied and crosses his hogs with another breed. The re- 

 sults are not what he expected and, not being satisfied, he crosses with 



