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 10, 1907, beginning at 



2 o'clock, P. M. 



The meeting was called to order by President Sykes of the Corn 

 Belt Meat Producers' Association. 



The President : The time has arrived for us to begin our pro- 

 gram. I suppose you all understand that this is a joint session of 

 the State Department of Agriculture and the Corn Belt Meat Pro- 

 ducers' Association this afternoon. 



The first subject is entitled, "Sheep Husbandry on High Priced 

 Farm Lands," by Geo. H. McKerrow, President of the Wisconsin 

 State Board of Agriculture. I desire to state that Mr. McKerrow 

 was unable to get here, but wrote us, that he would furnish a sub- 

 stitute better than himself, in the form of his son, Wm. A. McKer- 

 row, who has charge of the sheep upon their farm. 



SHEEP HUSBANDRY ON HIGH PRICED FARM LANDS. 



WM. A. MC KERROW, PEWAUKEE, WISCONSIN. 



Mr. President and Gentlemen of the Iowa State Farmers' Insti- 

 tute and Corn Belt Meat Producers' Association: It is quite a 

 privilege for me to come here and talk to such a noble body of men, 

 gathered together from all over the State of Iowa. We know that 

 Iowa is noted for the greatness of her beef and pork producing 

 industry, but the sheep end of it seems to be, possibly, slighted. We 



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