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efforts or lack of them will be the progress or failure of the future. 

 Nothing can prevent the growth of the industry so well suited to the 

 state but a little selfishness on the part of any of us can retard that 

 growth. 



The state has a wonderful record as a dairy state for thirty years and 

 it has still more wonderful possibilities for the future. Our 100,000 

 creamery patrons ought to become 200,000 in the next ten years, our 

 100,000,000 pounds of butter made ought to become 200,000,000 or even 

 400,000,000 pounds in the next decade. We are just now at the begin- 

 ning of a new era in the dairy business of the state. There are new 

 forces at work, there are new developments beginning and we may con- 

 fidently look for much greater advancement in the future than in the 

 past. We have a right to be proud of what , has gone before in the 

 dairy and creamery business of this state but we shall have more 

 reason for selfcongratulation in the years to come when the ideals toward 

 which we have each been striving shall have been more nearly reached. 

 I thank you. 



WEDNESDAY MORNING, 10 O'CLOCK. 



President : You will please come to order. We have with us this 

 morninfr the president of the Nebraska State Dairymen's Associa- 

 tion, and he is also a live wire in the college there. I am pleased to 

 introduce to you Prof. ITaecker, of Nebraska, who will talk to you 

 on the silo. 



SILOS. 



PROF. HAECKER, PRESIDENT NEBRASKA STATE DAIRY ASSOCIATIOX, LINCOLN, NEB. 



Mr. Chairman, and gentlemen of the convention: 



This is, I believe, the first time I have ever had the privilege of attend- 

 ing a meeting of Iowa dairymen, and I assure you it is a pleasure, because 

 I know here are gathered the boosters of the great dairy business in this 

 state. I am familiar with the work you are doing and we in Nebraska 

 are delighted over your recent boom. I feel that it behooves a new era 

 in Iowa dairying. 



The times are very ripe for the silo, and this does not imply that the 

 silo has not been a good thing in the past or that those who have had 

 silos for ten or fifteen years are ahead of their time, but conditions today 

 make the silo more necessary on the average stock farm than they ever 

 were before. 



Land has greatly increased in value and must now earn more than 

 it did in the past. Not only has the price of land increased, but also the 

 cost of roughage and grain, which increases, materially, the cost of feed- 

 ing stock. Labor has also advanced and as the silo is a labor saving de- 

 vice for feeding cattle, it should be reckoned in this light. The in- 

 creased production of alfalfa hay has been used by some farmers as an 



