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If these states can get this amount of money we ought to be able to get 

 $25,000 a year. This is not as much as the other States are getting.. We 

 could get the same help if we would make our wants and wishes known 

 in the same way that the other States have. They made theirs known 

 in an effective way. We have the power within our hands to get whatever 

 we want. The farmers in the State do not realize the influence they 

 have, because they are not united and organized. If the railways had the 

 influence that the farmers have they could do anything. Of course we 

 want a committee to push this work. We want help. 



President Johnson: May I suggest that the best time to tell the 

 representatives things like this is before election; if you wait until after 

 they are elected I fear you will get left. 



Mr. : If we wait until they are elected again we will have to 



wait two years longer, and a great many of these men will not be dead 

 in the next two years, and they will want to be re-elected, and for that 

 reason they will listen to what you say when you come around. 



Mr. : I do not know whether they can think two years ahead 



or not. 



President Johnson: Those people are elected to represent the people, 

 and it is our business to let them knoAv what we want. They are the 

 servants of Indiana; that is what they are for. 



Mr. Billingsley: I have been before our legislatures in different 

 capacities for a number of years— for the Dairy Association, the Poultry 

 Association, and other associations, and they gave the State Board of 

 Agriculture an appropriation to help carry on the different associations. 

 I have been before them so many times that I have begun to despair 

 of getting very much, for I know what they will say to us. The general 

 opinion is that they do help the experiment station, which is not the 

 case. They are absolutely indifferent, and I think this should be pre- 

 sented to the liegislature that it is not for Purdue University, and see if 

 they will not help us out in this respect. 



Mr. Schlosser: This State Dairy Association is a large association. 

 We have ten members on the committee and I shall read them to you. 

 They are as follows: J. M. Knox, Lebanon; J. W. Drischel, Cambridge 

 City; T. C. Burnsides. Liberty; 3: J. W. Billingsley, Malott Park; C. B. 

 Benjamin, LeRoy; S. B. Woods, Crown Point; George Freese, Nappanee; 

 G. B. Swan, New Washington; I. C. Calvin, Kewanna. 



These gentlemen come from the different parts of the State. Now, I 

 certainly should appreciate it if the farmers of the State would take 

 this matter up and help us. If you hear of anything that would help 

 us in this mattei*, kindly let me know and I will look it right up. 



