NINETEENTH ANNUAL YEAR BOOK— PART III 167 



audience, or in this state of Iowa, Avho gathers it in early September and 

 puts it in his dwelling house, in his kitchen or in a I'oom over the kitchen, 

 with a register in the ceiling, and fire dries it, — but would have successful 

 seed corn. There is not a farmer in Iowa who took care of his corn in 

 this way who ever had to replant a hill of corn because of poor seed corn. 

 If you only get object lessons and get farmers interested in them, we 

 ought to double the products of this state. It is a disgrace that we raise 

 such small crops as we are doing. There ought never to be anything 

 mentioned of seed corn or seed oats except along the lines I have men- 

 tioned, for there is no farmer in the country, no matter how humble his 

 home, but has better facilities for curing seed corn than the best seed 

 house in the state. Farmers as a rule eat three times a day, the cook 

 stove is running, and there is no expense whatever for getting the heat, 

 and that heat is the life of the corn. As I said before, the man does not 

 live who saves seed corn as I have intimated and urged for forty years, 

 but has success with it. I have spent more money than all the men in 

 the state disseminating this information to the farmers of Iowa, at my 

 own expense. I have sent them to every editor in the state under a two 

 cent stamp so that the editor would be sure to open it, knowing that many 

 people think anything under one cent postage is advertising matter. I 

 have paid two cent postage and tried to get them to read it, and still we 

 have losses and losses, and you know what the experience was last year. 

 The farmers began in January to test and test, and you have all kinds of 

 testing devices, but they are all worthless. You don't need a testing de- 

 vice if you do it my way, for it will grow in spite of you. 



I thank you gentlemen for your attention. 



The Chairman: Before we proceed with the election of officers, the 

 two committees that the chair was to appoint will be composed as fol- 

 lows: 



The Committee to confer with the State Fair Board: W. H. Shipman, 

 Muscatine county; George White, Mills county; L. R. Pike, Harrison 

 county. 



The Resolutions Committee will be: F. A. Gatch, Adair county; W. R. 

 Scofield, Hardin county; M. E. Bacon, Clay county. 



Now we will proceed to the election of officers. What is your pleas- 

 ure? 



Carl Leytze (Woodbury) : I will nominate H. S. Stanberry for pres- 

 ident. 



The Secretary: If not, we will proceed to vote. All those in favor 

 any other? 



G. E. Bliss (Adams) : Second the nomination. 



The Secretary: If not, we will proceed to vote. All those in favor 

 of Mr. Stanberry as your president for the year 1918-19 signify by raising 

 the right hand. * * * Contrary the same sign. * * * ^j. gtan- 

 berry is declared elected. 



H. S. Stanberry (Blackhawk): I think you have broken all previous 

 precedents with reference to the election of your president. I think it has 



