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material. Hogs and corn go hand in hand. For the profitable production 

 of hogs the creator endowed the state of Iowa and the neighboring states 

 better than any other place in the world. The creator is not dealing out 

 to us at the expense of the world — other places have things which we may 

 not have but along this particular line he mapped out the state of Iowa 

 and surrounded it with environment necessary to the profitable pro- 

 duction of corn and consequently of hogs. 



The scientific man says don't feed too much corn, you need something 

 else to go with it, and we do need something else and we have it. We 

 have the clovers. That is the reason we excel, because we excel in the 

 raw material to make the finished product. The people of Iowa are 

 no more intelligent than other people but we have the raw material. 

 We don't have to pay railroad fare or tariff, we have the material right 

 here. We have made a rapid advance but there is probably more ahead 

 of us than behind us. 



I want to ask you this, what has been the most potent factor in the 

 development of this industry? There are a good many things that have 

 contributed but I believe you will all agree with me that the most potent 

 factor has been organization. Men have groped in the dark for years and 

 years and had to learn by years of experience. One might learn something 

 along the line of feeding, another along the line of breeding; they get to- 

 gether and tell each other what they found and that was the beginning 

 of organization. Today there is not a state in the corn belt that has not 

 its organization. We have three and we are very glad to have them. They 

 are doing a complete work and why is it that they can do this great 

 amount of work? For the simple reason that they co-operate. They are 

 all working together for the common good just like the cogs in a great 

 machine. We are all glad that this is true and there is no rivalry among 

 them. I can hardly resist saying that this organization is the mother 

 of them all, the one that has made the others and it is proud of them. 



I am glad to see so many here today and I only wish there were more, 

 especially the young men. We want the young men to come and get all 

 the knowledge they can out of these meetings. It is said that experience 

 is a good school but none but fools attend. That is true in a certain 

 sense. But you can do this, get the benefit of these meetings. Take a 

 course in college if you can but if you cannot, do the next best thing, get 

 the bulletins from the experiment station. They are published by men 

 who make the tests and who know what they are doing. They are not 

 guessing at it, they know what they are talking about. Get all the bene- 

 fit you can from other people. There are certain things in this world, how- 

 ever, that are never discovered except in the rough school of experience. 

 Any man who makes a success in this business bears the color marks of 

 experience." 



Following President Hoffman's address, Dr. W. B. Niles, of the 

 United States Bureau of Animal Industry, gave some interesting 

 information on the subject, "Prevention of Hog Cholera by Serum 



Treatment." 



