126 TWENTY-SECOND ANNUAL YEAR BOOK— PART II 



President Cameron : Gentlemen, you see that banner hanging in 

 front of you. I would like to have Mr. Barney come down here and 

 tell us about it and how it comes to be here. 



Dairy and Food Commissioner W. B. Barney: Mr. Chairman and Gen- 

 tlemen: I have been asked to tell why we have that banner, and I am 

 reminded of a little story I heard told about a couple of Irishmen who were 

 jailed for theft. One had stolen a watch and the other had stolen a cow, 

 and in the morning when they were called for breakfast the Irishman that 

 had stolen the cow asked the other fellow what time it was. He said, 

 "Why it's sure time to milk." I want to say it is really a good time to milk, 

 for the reason that there is no way that we can market our products to 

 better advantage than through the dairy cows. 



So far as that banner is concerned it has been won by the Minnesota 

 people for about eight consecutive years, I think, and one of the reasons 

 they have been able to win it is on account of the large number of cream- 

 eries they have in Minnesota as compared with ours. They have something 

 like seven hundred creameries in Minnesota as compared with about 420 In 

 Iowa. We have about twelve more than we had a year ago. The banner 

 is offered for the ten best tubs of butter shown at the National Butter- 

 makers Association. They have been able to win it, as I say, because they 

 had very many more entries than Iowa. But we have been advancing 

 more rapidly in Iowa in the way of improving our products in the last 

 five or six years than they have. We caught up with them this year and 

 won the banner for the best average ten tubs of butter displayed. You 

 will notice as the banner states there were twenty-one states in the contest 

 and Iowa won the banner. We hope to continue to win it. It is an honor 

 that has come to the state, I think a great honor. In fact, I feel that noth- 

 ing ever happened in the dairy industry since I have had anything to do 

 with it that has meant more to Iowa than the winning of this banner. I 

 hope we shall continue to win it. 



President Cameron : We have with us today a gentleman who 

 has always been interested in our work. I remember my first ac- 

 quaintance I had with the gentleman ; he was a delegate from the 

 state of New York to a meeting of the International Association of 

 Fairs at Chicago, and I know he has continued that interest while he 

 has been in Iowa. I now take great pleasure in introducing to you, 

 President R. A. Pearson, of the Iowa State College of Agriculture. 



President Pearson, of the Iowa State College of Agriculture: How would 

 you feel if you were called upon to defend your mother or your mother-in- 

 law? Sometimes I have felt just about as I would under these circum- 

 stances. Sometimes I have felt I must stand up and defend agriculture. 

 It is a strange feeling. Sometimes I have felt I must stand up and defend 

 agricultural education, the thing which has done so much to put agriculture 

 of this country in the position where it is today. I wonder where we would 

 be today if the laboratories investigating agricultural problems had been 

 closed ten years ago. I wonder where we would be today if the instruction 



