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tractors bid ran up to $93,000. In order therefore, to keep within 

 the limits of the available money, the board were obliged to, for 

 the present, eliminate the cement floor and one or two other 

 features which the plans provide for, with the intent of completing 

 them in these particulars another year. 



The plans for the accommodation of the exhibitors have been 

 considered at every point. On the east of the building a strip 

 of ground has been reserved for camping purposes which will ac- 

 commodate perhaps seventy-five tents. These are on land which 

 will not be subject to overflow as was the case on the old location 

 and which will be as comfortable as on the higher lands up above. 



The swine breeders of Iowa and particularly the exhibitors at 

 the Iowa state fair should feel very kindly toward the board of 

 agriculture in providing this splendid building and equipment for 

 their convenience. 



The published programme provided for a paper by George S. 

 Prine of Oskaloosa, Iowa, on the subject, "Relative Value of 

 Spring and Fall Litters." ^Ir. Prine, however, was not present 

 and failed to make any provision. J. A. Benson of Primghar, Iowa, 

 followed with his paper, discussing, "Which is Most Detrimental 

 to the Business, the Breeder Who Undersells or the Boomer and 

 High Seller?" 



WHICH IS THE MOST DETRIMENTAL TO THE BUSINESS— THE 



BREEDER WHO UNDERSELLS OR THE BOOMER 



AND HIGH-SELLERS. 



J. A. BENSON, PRIMGHAE, IOWA. 



The subject assigned to me for discussion with you is not new nor 

 more pressing today than at many times before in the life of this asso- 

 ciation, but perhaps the remunerative prices of pork and good breeding 

 stock this year give opportunity to bring home to the beginner, or he who 

 undersells, the detriment of the breeder who brings discredit to his 

 breed and to the painstaking fellows by selling too low and thus show- 

 ing a loss from his stock even in good times. 



It is a proper subject for discussion at your hands as the leaders 

 of the greatest industry of the leading state, both in numbers and indi- 

 vidual value of its swine, to save those who are awakening to the prog- 

 ress now being made with pure-bred swine and those who are to follow you, 

 from the financial and moral relapse which follows surely and relent- 

 lessly the boomer if not the high-seller. 



I know that none of the gentlemen suggested by my subject are 

 present, for the first named class invariably reply to the invitation of 

 your officers, as to the advertising man or the neighbor who wants them 

 to join a circuit of public sales, that "I can't afford it." 



