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Now I honor the man who stays in his creamery and makes high 

 class butter (for we all realize that the time is coming very soon when 

 we must make nothing but good butter), and I honor the man who has 

 built a large volume of business; but there is a third man whom 1 

 honor, and perhaps I should have made him first, and he is the man 

 who not only does the work of his creamery well but is doing mucn to 

 develop his community; he is the man who is sowing the seed which is 

 causing the patron to produce more and better milk. The seed he sows 

 is benefiting himself as well for he is reaping the harvest in cream 

 which enables him to turn out a large amount of high-class butter and 

 show increasing profi-ts for the creamery. 



I would leave the question with you as to how you can do the greatest 

 amount of good to your patrons but I do know, that, while conditions 

 may vary in different communities, in general the greatest opportunity 

 lying before the buttermaker of today is the improvement of dairying 

 in his community. I thank you. 



The President: I believe that Mr. Van Pelt has brought out some 

 facts w^hich may well be pondered. I hope that the buttermakers present 

 will bear his talk in mind. 



Member: Mr. President, I have in mind another man whom we used 

 to like to hear and who has been taken away from our association in 

 the past few weeks. I refer to Mr. Spurbeck and I have here a resolu- 

 tion which I think should be sent to Mrs. Spurbeck. 



"Resolved. That the Iowa State Dairy Association, in convention 

 assembled, misses the presence and hearty greeting of our long-time 

 member and enthusiastic supporter and we tender our deepest sym- 

 pathy to Mrs. Spurbeck in her bereavement." 



Resolved that the foregoing be made a resolution and that our presi- 

 dent be requested to present it in person to Mrs. Spurbeck and convey 

 to her our respect and sympathy. 



Carried. 



Member: We have always known Iowa as a great butter state but 

 recently it has obtained a start as a cheese state and is rapidly coming 

 to the front in that line. The man who is responsible for this is v/ith 

 us here today and I would like to call on Mr. Murphy for a few re- 

 marks. 



The President: Mr. Murphy, will you favor us with a few remarks? 



Mr. Murphy: Gentlemen of the Iowa State Dairy Association, I was 

 very much interested indeed in the forceful and instructive address of 

 Mr. Van Pelt. I believe with him that the improvement of dairying is 

 one of the most profitable things which can be done for this state of 

 Iowa. We are all interested in making our state bigger and better in 

 every way. Of all the states in the Union, Iowa is probably as ideal 

 a dairy section as can be found. 



When my parents came from Cork, Ireland, more than sixty years 



ago, they left their friends to go where they could obtain something 



besides the famine which they faced in that little spot in Ireland. They 



came to America with nothing but a little handbag, carrying probably 



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