:^U IOWA DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 



It is to be regreted that our legislature did not pas's an act last winter 

 for tiie suppression of tuberculosis among our cattle. The bill providing 

 for partial compensation of condemned cattle, has been very satisfactory 

 in Wisconsin and several of our sister states. This association should 

 use its influence for such an act, v.hen our lav makers meet again. 



In adding the cattle exhibit in a small way as a feature of th:s con- 

 vention, your board has done so, hoping it may grow into a regular fall 

 dairy show to be held in connection with this meeting. 



This convention always feels at home in Cedar Rapids. We are al- 

 ways given a royal welcome to the Parlor City. It has been our pleasure 

 to hold several other meetings in your beautiful city and they have never 

 failed to be a success in every respect. We hope that with tne generous 

 support always accorded us by people and press to malve this by far the 

 most profitable meeting in every way, we have ever held. 



In closing, permit me to express to the officers and numbers, my 

 sincere ai)preciation of their loyal support of my efforts to build up and 

 broaden the work and influence of this association. We must all remem- 

 ber that with the new responsibilities, come new obligations on our part 

 that will require still further effort. Pecuniary compensation for a 

 work of this nature, would be only a small measure of reward, as compared 

 with the satisfaction we should feel at having been instrumental in plac- 

 ing Iowa where she should be, in the very front rank of dairy states. 

 I thank you. 



President: The next will be an address liy Urn. TI. K. Wriuht. 

 State Dairy and Fcod Commissioner: 



ADDRESS. 



II. R. WRIGHT, FOOD AND Il.VIRY COM .M ISSIONER. DES MOINES. 



This is the eighth successive State Dairy convention program on which 

 my name has appeared in the opening session. I have not attempted at 

 any of the conventions to instruct any of you upon the art of butter- 

 making, largely because I don't know how. Not being an expert upon 

 the scientific side of buttermaking there has been more opportunity to 

 observe the whole field of dairy and creamery operations. Sometimes one 

 holds some small thing so close to his eye that he fails to see the larger 

 things at a distance, and while to point out the presence of faults and 

 difficulties is valuable, it is not less valuable, perhaps, to point out once 

 in a while the progress that has been made, and predicate upon that 

 progress greater advancement for the future. Instead of weeping over 

 the mistakes of the past, and from them foretelling disaster and mis- 

 fortune for the future, we ought rather to contemplate the victories and 

 achievements of the past and from them point out to one another just 

 how we ai'e going to improve them. I remember a boy sat by the way- 

 side bemoaning the fact that he had one sore toe. but when the band 

 began to play he remembered that he had nine other toes that wer(> not 

 sore and he used them in keeping up with the procession. 



