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succeeding legislatures and demand a continuing appropriation and re- 

 ceive what is your right and your just due. But let me warn yon. You 

 must not permit a dollar of that appropriation to be spent foolishly or ex- 

 travagantly of for an unauthorized purpose. If you do you will damn 

 your cause with future legislatures and you will close the doors of the 

 state treasury against your requests, no matter how just and how proper 

 your claims may be. I thank you. 



President : ]\Ir. Moore has told you that he has two cows. Now 

 he is not the only one that we will have talk to us who keeps cows. 

 We have Governor Carroll. He has a cow and is credited with milk- 

 ing her himself. I want to say that he has been a very warm friend 

 of ours all through this struggle. AVe have in him a good friend. 



ADDRESS. 



GOV. B. F. CARKOLL, DES MOINES, IOWA. 



Mr. Chairman, Ladies and Gentlemen: I do not know that I shall be 

 able to say anything to you that will broaden the scope of your knowl- 

 edge very much with refei'ence to dairying. I came rather to meet you 

 and greet you and to say to you that the state is interested in the in- 

 dustry that you are engaged in. I have been very much pleased and de- 

 lighted to see the exhibits that you have here. I am certain that it means 

 much to you men to come together this way, even if you did nothing but 

 visit. 



Mr. Moore has told you the history of the legislation which brought 

 to you an appropriation made by the state for the purpose of encouraging 

 and helping you in your work. It is rather an unusual thing for a state 

 to legislate money into the hands of an association or the officers of an 

 association where these offices are not created by and under the direc- 

 tion of the state. Although we have for some time been making prepara- 

 tions for county agricultural societies and for the carrying on of institute 

 work, both of which in a general sense are agricultural, we determined to 

 make at least a small appropriation to help you in your work. Whether 

 the legislature will feel like repeating that appropriation will, of course, 

 depend on yourselves and how you have used the appropriation, and the 

 tenor of my remarks in my message to the next legislature will depend 

 upon your report. 



The dairy interest which you represent is one of the greatest interests 

 in the state. There is no question about that. Mr. Wright, our dairy 

 and food commissioner, has just filed with me his annual report, and I 

 have been studying it a little because I expected to come here and because 

 I wanted to know something about it. There are some things in that re- 

 port which, it seems to me, I ought to bring to your attention. We have 

 something like 1,363,000 milk cows in the state, and I don't know whether 

 the number is increasing or decreasing. Mr. Wright's report shows that 

 the creameries turned out about 102,000,000 pounds of butter last year; 

 the total butter production was about 170,000,000 pounds, or about two and 

 a half pounds of butter yer cow per week. If by increasing the amount 



