PART IV 



PROCEEDINGS 



OF THE 



Joint Session of the Annual State Farmers' 



Institute and Corn Belt Meat 



Producers Association 



HELD AT 



The Convention Room of the Savery Hotel, Des Moines. 

 Iowa, on December 13, 1910 



A joint meeting of the State Farmers' Institute and the Corn 

 Belt Meat Producers' Association was held in the convention room 

 at the Savery Hotel, Tuesday, December 13, 1910. The convention 

 was called to order by Mr. A. Sykes, president of the Corn Belt 

 Meat Producers' Association, and the following program given: 



Invocation Rev. Proudfit 



Address by the President of the Corn Belt Meat Producers' Association 



A. Sykes 



"Design and Contsruction of Farm Buildings" 



Prof. J. B. Davidson, Ames, la. 

 Addres by Herbert W. Mumford, Professor of Animal Husbandry, Illi- 

 nois State College 



"The Role of American Farmer" H. J. Waters 



President Kansas State College of Agriculture. 

 "How the Grand Champion Steer at the International Live Stock Show 



was Fed" R. J. Kinzer 



Professor of Animal Husbandry, Kansas Agricultural College. 



Prayer was offered by Reverend Proudfit, of First United Pres- 

 byterian church, Des Moines. 

 "President Sykes delivered his annual address, as follows: 



