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where they found it was in butter that was over-worked. I am 

 not ready to tell the cause for this. I think Chief "Webster will 

 be able to find out; they are after it and I think they will locate 

 it, but I think we have got to the point where we know where to 

 look for it, and I believe it is in the working of the butter. 



Mk. Smarzo : Referring to the shipment of unsalted butter 

 which Mr. Webster says had the fishy flavor, I inspected that 

 myself and found it overworked. Nearly all the overworked 

 butter has a very strong fishy flavor and this unsalted butter 

 had it. It was overworked very badly, so sticky you could hardly 

 draw your trier. 



Mr. Wentworth : "We cannot understand how for good Iowa 

 Dutter they would not give one to two cents premium when we 

 consider that those epicurean New Yorkers down there eat a 

 cheese which makes self-respecting people hold their noses and 

 the average Iowa yellow dog would not have. There is a lot 

 about these things we cannot explain; we know they exist, bu\ 

 I dare say and believe that everything Mr. Keiffer has said is 

 absolutely true; but we are still in a maze, and I think in the 

 course of another twelve months, with the advantages he will 

 acquire and the absolutely accurate knowledge he has of Iowa 

 conditions from the cow to the refrigerator car, that he will be. 

 able to tell us next year a whole lot more about it, and we can 

 go ahead and do business in the old-fashioned way and get ten 

 cents premium for this nice butter when Professor Webster and 

 everybody else gets things going right. 



The President: If there is anything the buttermakers of 

 Iowa, and I may say the boys of Iowa, can be charged up with 

 it is with loyalty to and appreciation of their friends. Since I have 

 been your president it has fallen to my lot to perform a number 

 of pleasant duties, many of them more pleasant than others, and 

 if I were to tell you the truth of the matter I would say that I 

 have never in my life been called upon to perform an unpleasant 

 duty since I have been honored with the presidency of your 

 organization. It has been a pleasure to serve you, but I have a 

 duty to perform tonight, the pleasure of which is much greater 

 than anything I have ever been called upon before, for I fail 

 to find words to express it. 



A few years ago we had a man come into the State, I think he 

 came from up in Minnesota. Somebody said last night, I believe 

 it was Mr. Wright, that all that was best Iowa contained, Iowa 



