300 IOWA DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



MICHIGAN. 



I could close with no more fitting statement than that made by Presi- 

 dent Roosevelt in his speech at Lansing, Mich., before the Agricultural 

 College, on May 31, of this year, in which he states as follows: 



"The people of our farming regions must be able to combine among 

 themselves, as the most effective means of protecting their industry 

 from the highly organized interests which now surround them on every 

 side. A vast field is open for work by co-operative associations of farmers 

 in dealing with the relation of the farm to transportation and to the 



