PART VI 
PROCEEDINGS 
OF THE 
Annual Meeting of the Swine 
Breeders' Association. 
1908. 
BY C. C. CAELIN", SECRETARY. 
OFFICERS. 
L. H. ROBERTS, President Paton 
H. F. HOFFMAN, Vice-President WasMa 
HARVEY JOHNSON, Vice-President Logan 
C. C. CARLIN. Secretary and Treasurer Des Moines 
The annual summer meeting of the Iowa Swine Breeders' Asso- 
ciation for 1908 took place at Des Moines, Tuesday, June 16th. 
About one hundred members were present, although the crop con- 
ditions were such as to discourage attendance by those who do any 
farming. But breeders generally are loyal to their organization and 
show great interest in all means that may be taken for the advance- 
ment of their industry. This accounts for the fact that the swine 
breeders have succeeded in holding enthusiastic sessions every year, 
while breeders of other lines of live stock permitted interest in their 
organization to Avane and gradually cease to exist. The Swine 
Breeders' Association is a democratic body, one in which every 
member takes pride, and in which each one exercises his right to 
enter freely into any and all discussions. It is realy a great big 
family consultation, and in its deliberations the subjects are exposed 
