344 IOWA DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURK 



with the experiment stations. When the state has not suflScient funds 

 to carry on the work, or there are very special reasons, perhaps, the 

 department will send men into that state to help investigate these 

 problems I have been talking about. We have in this state two men 

 working at your experiment station, we have three men in Connecti- 

 cut, three men in New York and have men in the South, and may 

 place men in other states to help them solve these problems of such 

 great importance to the dairy people. The department of agriculture 

 ^a,^l furnish us more money for this work if the dairy people take 

 enough interest in the matter to see that the department has these 

 funds. The department is already carrying on independent researches 

 rn dairying. There are questions which are greater than a state can 

 handle and we have men in the field who are taking hold of them, tak- 

 ing hold of some of these problems and helping to solve them inde- 

 pendently of the experiment stations, but prefer to get the knowledge 

 first hand through their own men. 



The department furnishes literature which every farmer can have 

 for the asking. The dairy division has published about seventy bul- 

 letins on dairy questions all of which can be had by any dairyman or 

 anyone interested in dairying throughout the country. These bul- 

 letins have done much good and we hope to have them do still more 

 good. The lines of investigation we are carrying on will cause the 

 publication of a larger pumoer than ever before and we want to place 

 these in the hands of the people who can get good from them, and 

 anyone can have them for the asking. i 



We try to help by attending dairy meetings and giving our aid 

 wherever it may be needed and in this way broadening our own 

 knowledge in regard to conditions of the country and bringing var- 

 ious dairy organizations in touch with similar organizations in other 

 states, helping to amalgate the dairy interests from one side of the 

 country to the other and show there is a feeling of close kinship 

 between the dairy interests of every state, and it is part of our duty 

 to help bring that about. 



iSlow the dairy division can only do these things, as can other 

 divisions and bureaus of the department, by first securing good men who 

 can carry on these lines of investigation, who can preach the gospel 

 of dairying and other agricultural pursuits, and we can only get 

 these men by having sufficient funds to employ them. Here and there 

 we pick up men who seem to be head and shoulders above their fel- 

 lows, we try to get hold of them and place them where they can 

 reach a larger audience than in their own localities, placing them in 

 the experiment stations and in the field for lecturing, and in various 

 works of that kind. 



The dairy division can be helped by having sympathy of organi- 

 zations of this kind, and by expressions of this sympathy through 

 organizations, through individual effort, through communications to the 

 department to show they are interested in the work. Our people at 

 Washington are largely guided in the work by what the people of the 

 country demand and when a demand comes for work there is always 



