330 IOWA DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



I said last night that I had never yet to perform an unpleasant 

 duty since I have been president of your association, and I have 

 the first little unpleasant duty to perform this morning by reading 

 the following letter. I promised you last night that Prof. Curtiss 

 would be here and we supposed he would as he was on the pro- 

 gram and had accepted the invitation to speak, but this morning 

 we received the following letter by special delivery: 



Ames, la., Nov. 6, 1906. 

 Mr. Johnson. Secretary, Iowa Dairy Association, 

 Cedar Rapids, Iowa. 



Dear Sir: — I regret very much that I shall not be able to attend the 

 meeting of the Iowa Dairy Association at Cedar Rapids this v^^eek. I 

 am obliged to leave tonight for Baton Rouge, Louisiana, to attend the 

 annual meeting of the American Association of Agricultural Colleges and 

 Experiment Stations. 



The Iowa State College joins Des Moines in extending a cordial invita- 

 tion to the Dairy Association to hold its next meeting there, with one 

 day's session at the college. It is now ten or twelve years since the 

 association held its last meeting at Ames. Through the general interest 

 and splendid co-operation of the Iowa Dairy Association we now have a 

 modern, well equipped dairy building that is a credit to the important 

 interests which it represents and it will be gratifying to us to have the 

 dairymen of Iowa visit the institution again and inspect the improve- 

 ments and new facilities for dairy work. 



The dairy farm will be equipped and in running order at that time. 



With kind regards and cordial greetings to the buttermakers and 

 dairymen of Iowa, I am, Very sincerely yours, 



C. F. Curtiss. 



The President : You remember there was one committee that 

 I failed to appoint, the legislative committee. As I have said 

 on former occasions, we have invariably tried to pick for that 

 committee men who would work and go up to Des Moines at the 

 time we need anything, regardless of whether those men were 

 buttermakers, dairymen or anyone else. I have appointed that 

 committee as follows: 



H. J. Neitert, F. A. Leighton, W. E. Smith, Prof. McKay, E. M. Went- 

 worth. 



Mr. Johnson: I would suggest to the members of the associa- 

 tion that S. B. Shilling be added to this committee, and make 

 that as a motion. Seconded and carried. 



The President : I want to say now that we must not allow 

 the work we have undertaken of securing an appropriation lag. 

 There was a suggestion made by Prof. McKay yesterday, while it 



