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EDUCATIONAL WORK. 



Speakers from this department have addressed several hundred 

 meetings within the last year and we have many engagements 

 booked for this winter and next spring. We have furnished a 

 large share of the speakers for the dairy train operated jointly 

 by the Iowa State Dairy Association and this department. Many 

 of our addresses have been before Dairy Picnics, Farmers' In- 

 stitutes, Pure Food Shows, Women's Clubs, Chautauquas, etc. 

 We have made good use of our stereopticon lantern at many of 

 these places. 



NEW OFFICE BUILDING A NECESSITY. 



We called attention in our last report to the fact that there 

 was great need of new quarters for this Department. We sin- 

 cerely regret that the House did not see fit to pass the bill that 

 was introduced and passed by the Senate, providing for a new 

 office building. We have recently been given a little more room, 

 but the building we occupy, an old flat or apartment house, is at 

 best an old shack and not well suited to our work. Many other 

 departments in the Capitol are overcrowded and a good sized 

 office building could be used to advantage. 



LICENSING OPERATORS OF BABCOCK TEST. 



No law ever enacted has been of greater benefit to the creamery 

 and the honest cream buyer than this measure. The Anti- 

 discrimination Law improved conditions, but all that the dis- 

 honest buyer had to do to boost the price was to give a test of 

 25 on cream that tested but 20 and there was no way to check 

 him in his crooked work. Since this law was enacted and the 

 commissioner was given authority to withhold or revoke licenses 

 fpp: either (>ver or under-reading the test we do not get one com- 

 j))laiiit whei^ we used to receive ten. All of which goes to show 



