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The President: I am sorry that we have not time to con- 

 tinue this discussion. I want to make an announcement at this 

 time. Professor Webster has kindly consented to make an experi- 

 mental test right after w^e adjourn and that is the reason I am 

 hurrying this up so as to give him time to make this test, and 

 you are all invited to see him make it. I believe this moisture 

 question is the big question before the people of Iowa today and 

 this will be something that is interesting. 



Mr. Wentworth: JMr. President I have been asked to present 

 the following resolution : 



RESOLUTION. 



Whereas, The Iowa State Dairy Association lias learned with pro- 

 found regret of the recent deaths of Orin Douglass of Boston, and 

 William A. Gude of New York; be it 



Resolved. That the President and Secretary be instructed, in behalf 

 of the Association to express to their families and associates the deep 

 sense of loss that we have met as an organization and our individual 

 grief as members. 



As we meet, Mr. President, on our annual convention from year 

 to year, it seems that some bright and shining light has been taken 

 from our midst, some man whom we could illy get along without, 

 and I have no doubt that we often think what can we do with- 

 out the aid, the encouragement and the comfort that their presence 

 and their example has been to us. 



For a score of years, for two generations or more of butter- 

 makers, Orin Douglass was with us in our State and in our national 

 conventions as a butter judge; a man. who was there regularly to 

 reach out his hand to help the buttermaker, ever ready to do every- 

 thing and anything that was possible to advance the interests of 

 the business in which you are most deeply interested. A few 

 years ago he met with a very serious business reverse. The laws 

 and courts permitted him to escape had he so desired from the 

 indebtedness that hung over him at about thirty cents on the dol- 

 lar, but, to the credit of his ancestry, to the credit of his manhood, 

 to the credit of the trade that he represented, be it said that he 

 paid every dollar with interest dollar for dollar and died honored 

 and loved and respected by every business associate in the city 

 of Boston and in the butter trade. 



It is hard for me to speak of either Orin Douglass, born back 

 in the hills of Maine in an adjoining township, a man who was 



