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buttons which we wear, up to 1000, are donated by the cattle con- 

 gress. We have a chance now to show our appreciation and help 

 our sister organization out at this time when Providence has been 

 so unkind. The kindliest thing we can do is to remit the money 

 they paid us for being here with them. Understand, no member of 

 the Dairy Cattle Congress made this suggestion. We learned that 

 various exhibitors have refunded their cash prizes and it occurred 

 to us that we do the same. Mr. Chairman, I put this as a mo- 

 tion. 



(The motion was seconded and unanimously carried.) 



The election of officers resulted as follows: 



President, W. B. Quarton, Algona. 



Vice-President, W. H. Chapman, New Hartford. 



Secretary, J. J. Ross, Iowa Falls. 



Treasurer, E.'T. Sadler, Waterloo. 



RESOLUTIONS. 

 The resolutions passed were as follows : 



The Thirty-eighth Annual Session of the Iowa State Dairy As- 

 sociation again meets in convention with the Iowa Dairy Cattle 

 Congress, and the mutual interests bear testimony to the value of 

 producer and manufacturer getting together. Intensive agriculture 

 to dairying is the surest reward of effort and conserver of our soil 

 and wealth. 



We wish to call the attention of our coming Legislature to the 

 need of additional help in the Dairy Commissioner's Department. 



We commend the Dairy Commissioner, the Buttermakers' As- 

 sociation and the Dairy Cattle Congress for their faithful and con- 

 scientious work. 



We heartily recommend the efforts of the Iowa Commissioners 

 to the Panama-Pacific Exposition to have the livestock interests 

 of our state properly represented at San Francisco in 1915. We 

 look upon the effort as the most practical and intelligent method 

 of extending the markets for our farm animals in the newer agri- 

 cultural sections of our Nation, and to the lands bordering the 

 Pacific. 



We note with deep regret that death has since our last conven- 

 tion taken from our midst our oldest member, Mr. Erve Mitchell, 

 and we tender our sympathies to the relatives of the deceased in 

 their bereavement. 



