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worse than we do support for our association; we know we need that 

 farm down there because we have realized that we have only been 

 skimming the surface. With this as a nucleus to grow from we can 

 get to the bottom of the subject. I believe we did the right thing 

 and were it to be done over, I would be in favor of doing it again, but 

 I do feel that we have turned in and helped every other institution 

 in the state secure what they wanted and I believe that today we are 

 in a position so we can ask them to help us. I am not in favor of 

 laying down any longer in this question and, as I said before, I hope 

 this body will take some action looking to that end so that we may 

 receive that which really belongs to us. 



Now, in conclusion, I wish to thank you, ladies and gentlemen and 

 especially the buttermakers of the organization, from the bottom of 

 my heart for the support you have given me during my incombency 

 in office for the last four years, and I want to urge you to do this, — 

 I want to say to you that in your state meetings, in your creamery 

 picnics, in your district organizations you are doing the grandest work 

 for the dairy industry of the state that has ever been done, and I want 

 to urge you to stick to it. The only request that I want to make as 

 I leave you is that you give to my successor in office the same hearty 

 support you have given me. I thank you. 



The Chairman : Professor E. H. Webster, of the Dairy 

 Division of the Department of Agriculture, will now address 

 you. 



ADDRESS. 



PROF. E. H. WEBSTEB, CHIEF OF DAIEY DIVISION, WASHIi^RTON, D. C. 



Mr. Chairman, Members of the Iowa State Dairy Association: I am 

 going to try to be brief in regard to some phases of the general propo- 

 sition of dairy work outside of the state of Iowa. If you have let the 

 remarks that Mr. Shilling has just made in regard to your own indi- 

 vidual condition In Iowa sink into you sufficiently enough they ought 

 not to be repeated, but if you have not 1 hope Mr. Shilling will repeat 

 them several times before he goes away from this convention. Certainly 

 Iowa should help its own dairy association. The questions that I want 

 to discuss are of a little larger interests than your own Immediate 

 interests in dairying. 



The questions of dairying the country over is one of the biggest 

 questions we have before the American people. The products of the 

 dairy, — the milk, the butter and the cream that is sold from the cows 

 in our herds in the United States, amount to more than any other pro- 

 as 



