IOWA IMPROVED LIVE STOCK BREEDERS' 

 ASSOCIATION, 



PROCEEDINGS OF THE THIRTY- SECOND ANNUAL 



MEETING. 



OFFICERS OF ASSOCIATION : 



E. M. Wentworth, President, ..... State Center 



G. H. BuRGE, Vice President . . . . . Mt. Vernon 



W. J. Rutherford, Secretary and Treasurer . . . Ames 



The thirty- second annual meeting of the Iowa Improved 

 Stock Breeders' Association convened at Ames, Iowa, January 

 10, 1905, in connection with the Short Course at the Agricul- 

 tural College. The evening programme was well filled with 

 addresses by Dean Curtiss, Professor Guthrie, of the On- 

 tario College of Agriculture, Professor Wilcox, of the Alabama 

 Experimental Station, and others. At following sessions ad- 

 dresses were delivered by Hon. L. H. Kerrick, of Illinois; Hon.. 

 H. M. Letts, of Iowa, trustee of the First District, and Dean 

 Day, of the Ontario Agricultural College. The address of Mr. 

 Kerrick was substantially along the lines of that delivered be- 

 fore the State Board of Agriculture and printed as part of. their- 

 proceedings. The address of Dean Day follows: 



UTILITY IN STOCK BREEDING. 



G. E. Day. 



I wish to be understood as speaking in all sincerity when I say that it- 

 gives me great pleasure to meet with the stock breeders of this State. There 

 is no class of men with whom I would rather meet than with stock breeders ; 

 there is no other business that appeals to me so strongly as the business of 

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