TENTH ANNUAL YEAR BOOK— PART VIII 361 



ADDRESS. 



B. D. WHITE, DAIEY DIVISION, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGBICXJT-TUEE, WASH- 

 INGTON, D. C, 



Mr. President, Ladies and Gentlemen: 



I did not come here to talk. I didn't expect to be here at all, but I 

 found it necessary to pass through Cedar Rapids, and of course I 

 wouldn't go through without stopping. 



I am glad to have the opportunity of meeting the Iowa Dairymen. It 

 has been some time since I have attended a convention of the Iowa State 

 Dairy Association in this city. I remember well, however, the first con- 

 vention that I ever attended — in the early 80's in the city of Manches- 

 ter. At that time, as I remember, they had a machinery exhibit, and 

 among that exhibit was the first separator that I ever saw. The at- 

 tendance was, perhaps, not as large as it is here today. I remember, 

 also, of seeing a gentleman from New York City at that meeting, which 

 was rather unusual. He talked on the subject of oleomargarine, and I 

 remember some of his talk. He said this: "We have oleomargarine by 

 the throat and we are forcing it to the wall." Now oleomargarine is a 

 pretty slippery proposition, and instead of keeping our hold on the throat 

 I think we want to sit down on it. It is going to be a product with 

 which we have to deal in the future and it is going to require the sup- 

 port and the efforts of the dairymen to see that that product is sold 

 legally and not for butter. We have recently had an opportunity to see 

 some of the workings, and I have had a photograph taken of a so-called 

 butter store. A large placard was placed in front of the counter which 

 read, "Fancy Creamery Butterine." Now what is creamery butterine? 

 Another placard contained the words "Dairy Butterine." These were 

 new phrases, but they are capable of putting up new phrases. 



We have had an opportunity to study the dairy conditions in Iowa as 

 well as in other sections of the country and are pleased to know that 

 Iowa is making, according to Mr. Wright's statement, over 100,000,000 

 pounds of butter. I believe this is true, but instead of making 100,000,- 



000 pounds of butter you have cows enough in this state to make 200,- 

 000,0000 pounds of butter. See the difference in profit that it would 

 mean if you could increase your product by 100,000,000 pounds, or double. 



1 am not going to talk along that line, because you have dairymen to 

 handle that subject. 



I want to say that the work to be done by the dairymen rests largely 

 upon the work and the activities of our local co-operative creamery 

 managers and secretaries. I fear that most of them, or at least a large 

 part of them, do not realize the changes that have been taking place in 

 the dairy work the past five or ten years. I fear that they are content 

 to operate their creameries and dairy work the way they did ten years 

 ago. I can, or at least I believe, that the secretaries and managers must 

 change their methods according to the changes of the times. What was 

 true ten years ago or five years ago is not true today. The business has 

 been revolutionized and revolutionized again and the men at the head of 



