ELEVENTH ANNUAL YEAR BOOK— PART VIII 435 



Mr. Fowler: Do you believe these same hogs on clover would 

 make cheaper gain with less corn? 



Mr. Hansen: 1 do. We have one of our lots of about two acres 

 thai we sow in rye every fall. In the spring when it is about 

 three inches tall we turn them into it. 



Mr. Fowler: I sold 131 yesterday that made pork for 3%c, not 

 counting the clover anything, and figuring corn at 56c. 



The President: This is a Aery interesting subject and I would 

 like to give you more time to discuss it, but as the meeting was 

 started late we are short of time and must hurry. I have asked 

 Dean Curtiss, of the Iowa State College, to give us a short talk, 

 and after that Prof. Van Pelt will follow with his cow demonstra- 

 tion. 



ADDRESS. 



C. F. Curtiss, Ajies, Iowa. 



Ladies and Gentlemen: It has been my privilege and pleasure to 

 attend a good many dairy conventions in Iowa, and also in Waterloo, 

 but I want to say to you tbat this convention has been a sort of a 

 dream, or, rather, it is what we have been dreaming about. I can re- 

 member the time when we could not get out a corporal's guard of dairy- 

 men — men who milk the cows — to a convention. They would tell us 

 there was nothing of particular interest to them, but on this occasion 

 you have set a new standard. You have incorporated with this con- 

 vention a show of dairy stock, and I want to say that we have been 

 making dairy history at this gathering. I believe it has done more 

 to advance dairying than any other dozen conventions. I want to con- 

 gratulate your officers and the management of this show, as well as the 

 citizens of Waterloo, upon the magnificent success. 



The state of Iowa was for a good many years regarded as being rather 

 primitive in the dairy business. It was said that we were in dairying 

 as a side issue, which was true to an extent, but a new life has been 

 coming into the dairy business of the state. Our farmers have been 

 getting into it as a real business, and they have been making progress 

 such as has never been made before and such as has been made in but 

 few states, and I believe that the dairy possibilities are as a matter of 

 fact just opening up. 



A few weeks ago I was over in Wisconsin, and I was interested in 

 the splendid display of dairy stock there, and some of the good people 

 pointed with pride to the fact that there were more Guernsey cows in 

 in Wisconsin than are fed today in the Island of Guernsey, and I pre- 

 sume that is true, and it is certainly a magnificent record for a state 

 like Wisconsin. I glory with these people in the showing they have made 

 in the development of this and other breeds of dairy cattle, and I hope 

 that the time will come when we will have in Iowa more Guernsey 



