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In closing, I will say that I expect great development in the science 

 of farm building design and construction. There is a general awaken- 

 ing along these lines, as evidenced by the correspondence to farm papers 

 and to the experiment stations. Development must come, however, from 

 specialists who are endowed with the spirit of the farm as well as fully 

 acquainted with farm practices and farm needs. Farmers in their pros- 

 perous years are now able and willing to pay a fee to a rural architect 

 who can furnish full value in a plan of a building. Besides this, I ex- 

 pect the experiment stations to give the subject attention — and why 

 should they not? There are no commercial interests tending to develop 

 farm building design other than those interested in the sale of materials. 



AFTERNOON SESSION. 



President Sykes announced the following committee on resolu- 

 tions : R. M. Gunn, Black Hawk county ; S. M". Corrie, Ida county ; 

 A. L. Ames, Tama county; H. P. Dawson, Cherokee county; J. B. 

 Wardrip, Keokuk county; Warren Nichols, Marshall county; Frank 

 Owens, Iowa county ; Geo. C. White, Story county ; D. Hogan, Cass 

 county; Frederic Larrabee, Webster county; A. A. Foster, Pow- 

 eshiek county. 



Herbert W. Mumford, Professor of Animal Husbandry, Illinois 

 College of Agriculture, read the following paper : 



LIVE STOCK PRODUCTION FROM THE STANDPOINT OF THE CORN 



BELT FARMER. 



PROF. H. W. MUMFORD, URBANA, ILL. 



These are days of uncertainty. Agriculture never presented more diffi- 

 cult problems. Farmers were never more clamorous for guidance. Quali- 

 fied men were never more reticent about prophesying what particular 

 phase of agriculture i's likely to prove most profitable, while the "inter- 

 ests" were never more active in promoting their own projects by preying 

 upon the unsophisticated, who have been sidetracked by the present pop- 

 ularity of the "back-to-the-land" movement. The "interests" as here 

 referred to represent those individuals and corporations who are selling 

 everything from garden seeds and books to land, at prices entirely out of 

 all proportion to their value. There never was a time when as many 

 sins were perpetrated in the name of agriculture as now. 



With all the uncertainty there are a few facts in relation to agri- 

 cultural production which are the result of changed conditions. They 

 are fit food for thoughtful minds to juggle with. 



Foodstuffs are high in price as compared with former times. The 

 tendency is toward still further advances in the future. Particularly have 

 advances been noticeable in the price of meats. Meat production has not 

 kept pace with the increase of population. 



