PART IIL 
PROCEEDINGS 
OF THE 
Joint Session of the Annual State Farmers' 
Institute and Corn Belt Meat Pro- 
ducers Association. 
HELD AT 
Savery Convention Room at the Savery Hotel, Des Moines, 
Iowa, on December 8, 1908. 
MORNING SESSION, 10 :00 A. M. 
C. E. Cameron, President State Board of Agriculture, in the 
chair. 
President Cameron : We have an address of welcome upon our 
program but I have been unable to find out who is to deliver it. It 
seems the secretaries of the two organizations rather got the thing 
mixed up, and each understood the other was to look after the 
matter. The upshot of it is that we haven't anybody here to give 
us an address of welcome. As far as that is concerned, I know that 
you are welcome to the city of Des Moines without any address 
of that nature. We will begin our program with an address on 
public school organization by Prof. A. Y. Storm, Ames, Iowa. 
PUBLIC SCHOOL AGRICULTURE. 
PEOF. A. V. STORM, AMES, IOWA. 
Mr. President and Gentlemen of the Iowa State Farmers' Institute 
and Corn Belt Meat Producers' Association: The people everywhere are 
intensely interested in the public schools. Nowhere in America do we 
ever have to question the interest of people in that subject. It is some- 
