TWELFTH ANNUAL YEAR BOOK— PART VIII 353 



The Iowa State Dairy Association today is the largest organization 

 of its sort in the United States. 



The Iowa State Dairy Association today is the best known organi- 

 zation of its sort in the United States. 



The Iowa State Dairy Association today is performing a more intel- 

 ligent, more comprehensive and more helpful work than any other 

 organization of its sort in the United States. 



The Iowa State Dairy Association was the first organization of its 

 sort in the United States to properly present its interests to its 

 state legislature and receive from it appropriations for educational 

 work in dairying. 



The Iowa State Dairy Association has run more dairy trains (with 

 the assistance of the railroads), held and attended more meetings, 

 spoken to more farmers and sown more bushels of dairy seed than 

 any other similar organization in the country. 



The Iowa State Dairy Association was the first organization of its 

 sort in the United States to exhibit at its convention, for educational 

 purposes and demonstration work alone, representative animals of the 

 various dairy breeds. 



The Iowa State Dairy Association was the first organization of its 

 sort in the United States to hold a dairy cattle show, with real money 

 premiums in connection with its annual convention, and pay those 

 premiums in cash — not conversation — before the exhibitors left the 

 grounds. 



For an organization of this sort to live 35 years is evidence of 

 one of two things — either it is vigorous, and thrivng and helpful 

 and prosperous and growing, or it is still living because everybody else 

 is too busy to bury it. 



I need not say that there are no signs of early death — no evidence 

 of needing the undertaker — no preparation being made for a funeral. 



We have been criticised at time for being a bit sensational in some 

 of our work; but, for my part, I prefer a little sensation to the usual 

 run of stagnation. 



I believe that this organization has been successful because it has 

 a mission — because it set about to perform that mission in a sane, 

 sensible, practical, business-like way— because it interested in its 

 ranks the services of the best talent the state afforded — because it 

 adopted a liberal and progressive policy — and because it has always 

 kept on working. 



It has attempted and accomplished great things simply because 

 there has been work, hard work and continuous work, but unison in 

 the work. 



Last year's convention and dairy show were an eye-opener to the 

 dairy world. Go where you will and any man who keeps a cow will 

 tell you something about the 1910 Waterloo convention of the Iowa 

 State Dairy Association. It has done more, I believe, tlian almost 

 any other one thing, except the work of the state dairy experts, to 

 put Iowa on the map among dairy people outside and inside the state. 



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