94 IOWA DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 
This is much to be desired and will come but with it must come largely 
increasing population in our cities. We must increase our manufactures. 
We must find profitable employment for capital and labor at home, rather 
than investing our surplus capital in Canada and Texas lands. Capital 
invested in Iowa lands and Iowa enterprises during the next decade is 
sure to pay as good or better returns than that invested elsewhere. 
The farmer in the legislature is as thoroughly interested in all these 
questions as is any other member. His progress and his success is largely 
dependent upon the welfare and success of all other classes. 
Now, gentlemen, in conclusion let me urge upon you the importance of 
keeping up and enlarging this association. At a trifiing expense for each 
member we can keep a powerful organization to protect our interests. 
We will be in a position to employ able men to work out our case and, 
like a well drilled foot ball team, charge the line of our opposition and, 
figuratively speaking, demoralize them. 
As individuals we can do but little to influence legislation or to even 
present our grievances; while as an organization, with a fair fund to pay 
the expense of presenting our claims we can always be sure of obtaining 
our rights. 
When our association was organized it seemed we were organized for 
a single purpose. However, as the years pass we find that new and im- 
portant questions are constantly arising. We have already battled with 
transportation, markets, taxation, stock food and other questions. We 
already have new questions before us. Tuberculosis in animals is already 
demanding the attention of our state. Who are so much interested as 
the stockmen? 
The school laws of our state are soon to be revised. The rural school 
is the knotty problem in this revision. You are the men interested. 
Teaching agriculture in our public schools and the proposed plan to aid 
approved colleges in this state in adding instruction in agriculture to 
their normal course of study must be considered. 
The question of advancing, and reducing, transportation rates, are now, 
and probably always will, confront us. 
There will be a hundred other questions as important as these, con- 
stantly arising. Then let us keep up our organization and be ready to 
act intelligently and effectively. 
The President : We will now listen to an address by Prof. C. F. 
Curtiss of Ames, on the subject of Government Horse Breeding — 
The American Carriage Horse. 
GOVERNMENT HORSE BREEDING — THE AMERICAN CARRIAGE 
HORSE. 
PEOF. C. F. CUKTISS, AMES, IOWA. 
Mr. President and Gentlemen of the Association: 
It seems a little strange, in view of all that has been done by the 
government for promoting the various agricultural interests, that until 
recently nothing has been done by it in the way of encouragement and 
