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is to prepare the ground as early in August as possible. Drill in 

 somewhere from 15 to 20 pounds of the best seed you can buy. Sow 

 it along about the 15th of August. Ordinarily you should have four 

 crops a year. I know you can raise it in Iowa as well as anywhere. 

 I thank you. 



Mr. Shilling: I w^as glad to hear Brother Julian deliver my 

 speech. It wouldn 't seem natural to stand before you and not talk 

 about the oleo situation. As long as he opened the matter I feel like 

 commenting a little upon it. The situation is just as serious as Mr. 

 Julian told you. Probably the dairy interests never stood in as 

 critical a position as they do at this time, but I want to say that I 

 believe we are as well equipped to cope with it as we ever have been, 

 The National Dairy Union is on a better basis and stronger today 

 than we have ever been. The affairs are in the hands of a com- 

 mittee of five, the chairman of which is ex-Governor Hoard of Wis- 

 consin. We are soon to meet and take the matter up with the mem- 

 bers of the legislature. It was my privilege to go to Washington to 

 confer with government officials about the oleo situation. Imagine 

 my surprise when I found the bill drawn. Had it not been for the 

 prompt and decisive action of one man at that time who went im- 

 mediately to the president, we today would be under a law govern- 

 ing the sale of oleomargarine that would be dangerous to the dairy 

 interests. The party that blocked the bill was James A. Tawny, of 

 Minnesota. I will say that had this bill been offered — at a time 

 when the treasury was in a depleted condition there is no question 

 but what it would have passed immediately, but it was effectively 

 blocked. 



Mr. Julian urged the dairymen to stand together in this matter 

 and I want to emphasize that statement. We must stand together. 

 We are compiling a list of names of dairymen in every state in the 

 union for this purpose of presenting a solid front when the time 

 comes. If there are creamery secretaries here today who have not 

 sent to our office a list of these names they should do so at once. We 

 need them badly this coming winter. The situation is critical and 

 it is going to be only by the most thorough efforts for us to main- 

 tain the position we now have. 



I believe the grade of butter is on the upward trend. Everything 

 points to that, and I don 't think there is a man in any market but 

 what will verify my statement. Quality is a great deal better than 

 it has been during the past five years, and this fact is especially 

 pleasing at this time. You must be aware of the fact that the poor 



