8 IOWA DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



Now, there are a great many breeders in this country, men 

 who are trying to raise draft horses to meet the requirements of 

 the breeding pubUc, who would be only too glad to have the 

 farmers take these mares and raise these colts and to sell them 

 to us that we might develop them. The business of developing 

 is a business for itself. The farmer can keep the colt until it is 

 about a year old; then it should be turned over to the man who 

 has pastures, fences and accommodations. I think that the 

 farmers of the country here should give attention to this method 

 of stock raising, and there is no question but for the next 

 ten or fifteen years at least there will be a demand for all 

 the good stalUons we need. We will find markets away from 

 us; we can send them to Canada and Argentine. 



Mr. Trigg: Mr. President, don't you think we ought to 

 tender the gentlemen a vote of thanks for showing to us in his 

 paper how the Standard Oil Trust has at last proved a great 

 blessing to the farmers of Iowa? 



The President: The next paper is entitled, "Some Thoughts 

 for the Cattle Feeder" by A. L. Ames, of Buckingham, Presi- 

 dent of the Corn Belt Meat Producers' Association. 



Prefatory to reading his paper, Mr. Ames said : The question 

 assigned me is so broad and involves so many different con- 

 ditions and heads, that you will not be surprised at all if I omit 

 a great many of them that are prominent in your minds today. 

 I will only touch on a few, and I hope that as to any questions 

 that will be asked, some one will be able to answer them and 

 bring out the different points that you all know should be 

 brought out before we are through. 



SOME THOUGHTS FOR THE CATTLE FEEDER. 



BY A. L. AMES, BUCKINGHAM, IOWA. 



Among the varied industries of this, and other states there is none of 

 more importance than the production of meats. In order to fully appre- 

 ciate the trend of affairs for any definite period it is necessary, in almost 

 every case, to go back over a series of years and note the changes, if any, 

 that have been made, and the conditions under which such changes were 

 made. That great changes have been made in all branches of farm in- 

 dustry is most apparent to all, who but stop a moment and reflect on meth- 

 ods and conditions of twenty-five or thirty years ago. 



Since the close of the Civil War this country has seen the most marvelous 

 advancement known to history. Unbroken prairies have been converted 

 into farms, and they in turn have made possible flourishing cities, and 

 wealthy states have been added to our public domain. 



