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PART VIII 



PROCEEDINGS 



OF THE 



Iowa State Dairy Association 



Held at Waterloo, Iowa, October 10th to 

 14th, Inclusive, 1911 



OPENING SESSION 



WEDNESDAY MORNING, 10:30. 



President Shoemaker: The hour has arrived for us to open the 

 thirty-fifth annual convention of the Iowa State Dairy Association. 

 We will open the meetinjs: with prayer by the Eev. rroo. B. Shoe- 

 maker. 



(Prayer.) 



The President: I am now about to introduce to you c) man 

 whose friendship and acquaintance I am glad to own. He is a 

 man who has grown up with Waterloo. The only thing between 

 Mr. Kiester and Waterloo and me is that Kiester and Waterloo 

 have grown up so much faster and bigger and better than I have. 

 There ought to be in every town a man who will devote his entire 

 time and who will work to further the interests of the city; to 

 work of an educational nature. In Waterloo, that man is Harry 

 Kiester. He never is too busy to do something for someone else, 

 and I have great pleasure in introducing ]\Ir. Kiester to you. 



ADDRESS OF WELCOME. 



H. E. Keisteb, Watekloo, Iowa. 



Mr. President, Ladies and Gentlemen: It certainly is a pleasure 

 for me, in behalf of the city of Waterloo, to welcome the buttermakers 

 and dairymen of Iowa to our city. Last spring when the officers of 



