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present time I am more concerned with keeping the men who are already 

 a part of it. Despite the salary increases granted by the Thirty-eighth 

 General Assembly, resignations have been very numerous owing to the 

 willingness of commercial firms to pay considerably larger salaries than 

 are being paid by the state. About one half of the men who were mem- 

 bers of the force at the time of the last General Assembly have since 

 resigned. The problem of keeping clerical and stenographic help is also 

 a very acute one. Trained workers of this kind are naturally unwilling 

 to remain in the employ of the department at the salaries offered when 

 commercial firms in Des Moines gladly pay from $25.00 to $50.00 per 

 month more. Not one of the stenographers whose names appeared in the 

 last anual report are employed at the present time. Obviously something 

 must be done, if the department is to retain its trained men and women. 

 I might add here that it is only the feeling that the next General Asembly 

 will recognize the necessity of revising salaries which is enabling the 

 department to retain a number of the members of its personnel. 



In general, the laws enforced by this department are satisfactory as 

 they now stand and no radical changes will be sought this year. The 

 classification of the wording of several laws, designed to facilitate their 

 interpretation, will be requested, but in even these instances, the general 

 purpose will not be changed. In this connection, the law requiring the 

 pasteurization of skimmed milk before being returned to the farmers 

 from the creameries will be asked to be applied to butter milk as well. 

 Most of the desired changes are taken up in the code commission bill, 

 however. 



An appropriation for the erection of a dairy building at the State Fair 

 will be asked from the Legislature this winter. That Iowa's great dairy 

 industry should have only two small booths and a refrigerator display to 

 represent it, at the greatest of all state fairs, is a matter of great surprise 

 to visitors from other states. This apparent indifference to the dairy 

 industry has been a source of considerable dissatisfaction to the various 

 dairy organizations throughout the state. Complaints from Exhibitors of 

 dairy machinery and supplies are growing more numerous each year, until 

 they have now reached the stage where threats to discontinue exhibiting 

 ai-e being heard. It is my opinion that this building should be second to 

 none in the country. Besides ample space for the exhibiting of dairy 

 machinery and supplies, it should be large enough to permit of the serving 

 of dairy products and contain a working model of all phases of dairy 

 manufacturing. By this, I mean that a creamery, market milk plant, ice 

 cream factory, and cheese factory should be in actual operation each day 

 of the fair. The opportunity to carry on educational work among the men 

 in Iowa's dairy plants by model factories of this kind is very great. Not 

 only would a building of this kind possess great educational value but it 

 would be the source of considerable revenue to the fair board. 



One misapprehension which exists widely in this state is that the fines 

 levied against violators of the laws enforced by the department revert to 

 it for its own use. This, of course, is far from the truth, as neither the 

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