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butter turned out of the creameries is what has made the sale of 

 oleo possible. The character of the product has opened the door 

 for oleomargarine and has invited it in. Every time you work for 

 the improvement of your product you are working better and harder 

 than you could in any other way against the sale of oleo. 



American people are human and are willing to do something if 

 they get paid for it. I believe that under the system we have been 

 running there has been a premium paid on a poor product. In 

 Minnesota last week a creameryman said that in April this year he 

 inaugurated a grading system in his creamery. He made his price 

 the same as the centralizing creameries for the third grade of cream. 

 For every pound of cream he received above this third grade he paid 

 2 cents extra, and for every pound of cream that graded first he 

 paid 1 cent, making the price 3 cents. He said that under this sys- 

 tem his business had doubled. 



I believe Ave have to some time get to this basis. We never will 

 produce the quality we should produce until we come to it. 



I haven't had the opportunity of standing before the Iowa State 

 Dairy Association since you received your appropriation. I want to 

 congratulate you and compliment you. I thank you. 



President: Is there any unfinished business? 



Shoemaker: I wish to move that a committee consisting of W. 

 W. Marsh, H. G. Van Pelt and J. J. Richardson be appointed to con- 

 fer with the State Board of Agriculture at their meeting in Des 

 Moines with reference to securing a superintendent of dairy cattle 

 for the Iowa State Fair looking toward the improvements and en- 

 largement of quarters for dairy' cattle as well as increasing the 

 premium fund. 



(The motion was seconded by Julian and unanimously carried.) 



Adjournment. 



WEDNESDAY EVENING, 8 O'CLOCK. 



President : For a number of years we, in Iowa, have been look- 

 ing to Wisconsin for all that is good and high class in dairying. 

 Probably no man in that state has done more to bring Wisconsin into 

 prominence than ex-Governor Hoard. There is a little town up in 

 the eastern part of the state where three men live who I believe, 

 have done a great deal to bring Wisconsin into prominence as a 

 dairy state. One is a breeder of Holstein-Friesian cattle, Mr. G 



