SIXTH ANNUAL YEAR BOOK — PART V. 6ZD 



Iowa State Dairy Association to occupy those sites. I am informed 

 that the membership of your organization does not consist wholly of 

 buttermakers, but that you include as well, salesmen, managers of 

 creameries, commission men and manufacturers of and dealers in dairy 

 machinery of all kinds, and they are all interested in a greater or less 

 degree in the development of the dairy interests of Iowa, yet in their 

 infancy. 



Twenty-nine years have elapsed since the formation of your organi- 

 zation, and from that day to this there has been a steady and marked 

 improvement in the art of buttermaking, and that is due, in a great 

 measure, to the knowledge which you and others have obtained by at- 

 tendance upon your dairy conventions, because of your dairy exhibits 

 and your dairy schools. That is your chance for improvement in your 

 line and in all other lines, and as to development the field is unlimited. 

 And . I am sure that with the great body of men, such as your associa- 

 tion represents, composed as it is of some of the best and finest and 

 most progressive men of the state, laboring all the time for the develoj?- 

 ment of this industry, I am sure that the state of Iowa will in due time 

 take her proper place as a leader not only in this industry as she has 

 in others, and when that time comes I feel that you who have labored in 

 season and out of season will feel that you have been amply rewarded 

 for the great work you have done in the past thirty years, are doing 

 now and will continue to do. 



Now, my friends, the citizens of Cedar Rapids have always a warm 

 welcome for those who come to our city for a good purpose. It is the 

 hope of every citizen that you will be refreshed and benefited by your 

 sojourn here. We invite you to visit all our public places, including our 

 parks and libraries, our clubs, our manufacturing and jobbing institu- 

 tions. We desire to treat you so well that you will want to come next 

 year and the year thereafter, and if you should conclude to make Cedar 

 Rapids your permanent place of meeting, it does not matter who will 

 follow me in the position I now hold, I will guarantee that you will 

 receive as warm a welcome at their hands as I extend to you now. 



The Chairman : In regard to the Honorable ^Mayor's re- 

 marks about the pohceman standing at the door, I wish to state 

 that the first man I had an introduction to when I came into the 

 building was the policeman, and I told him then that I was just 

 as well acquainted with him now as I ever wanted to be, and that 

 I did not want him to cultivate the acquaintance of our boys, 

 because they were not that kind. 



We have with us Honorable H. J. Neitert, president of the 

 National Buttermaker's Association, who will respond to the 

 address of welcome. 



