;^10 IOWA DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 



Dislmrsements— Con/v JiHt'd. 



May 20, 1909 Fred L. Kimball, estate 112.86 



May 20, 1909 W. B. Barney 23.20 



May 20, 1909 L. S. Edwards 14.90 



$210.74 $ 210.74 



Balance on hand July 1st $1,590.16 



F. L. Odell. 

 Treasurer Iowa State Dairy Association. 



(The report of Treasurer Odell was rend and being the same as 

 that of Secretary Johnson, was unanimously adopted.) 



President: I believe the ehairman of the auditing committee is 

 in the room, and T will call for his report. 



^\r. Parker : We have checked the accounts of the secretary and 

 find them to be correct. 



President : The next is the appointment of the different com- 

 mittees. The legislative committee has done such good work the 

 ]iast year that I have seen fit to leave it just as it was, as we may 

 have use for some moi-e of that kind of woi'k another year. I there- 

 fore reappoint as the legislative committee E. R. Shoemaker, Wat- 

 erloo (chaiiman); W^. W. ^Marsh, AVaterloo; W^. B. Quarton, Al- 

 gona; B. W^. NcAvberry, Strawberry Point; F. A. Leighton, Des 

 ]\Ioines. Resolutions: H. R. W^right, Des ]\Ioines ; F. W. Stephen- 

 son, Lamont, and F. W. Jacobs, Cedar Falls. Auditing: F. W. 

 Mack. D. W. Parker and Gay Miller. 



Johnson: The next is the address of our presid(nt. whom T 

 think, needs no introduction, ^Ir. W^. B. Barney. 



PRESIDENT'S ADDRESS. 



W. B. BARNEY, HAMPTON, IOWA. 



Gentlemen of the Iowa State Dairymen's Association: 



The time is again at hand, when we may look back over the road we 

 have traveled for the past year with no little degree of satisfaction as to 

 what has been accomplished. 



For a number of years we have been asking our legislature for funds 

 so much needed for educational work in our state. This year, through 

 a well planned campaign, they were given to understand better than 

 ever before, the real needs of the dairymen, and we were given $10,000 

 for the biennial period. "While this is a very moderate allowance for 

 the' work at hand, it is a start in the right direction, and with the dona- 



