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This is an interesting paper that should be discussed. If not. 

 this concludes our program for this forenoon. This afternoon 

 we will have a good program and will commence promptly on 

 time. We want everybody here as early as possible and assure 

 you we will not tire you. There is an interesting program for 

 the entire afternoon. 



The buttermakers of the North Central Iowa Association will 

 hold a meeting on this platform immediately after we adjourn, 

 for the purpose of electing officers for their association. Will 

 the members of the North Central Iowa Association please come 

 to the platform ? 



You may consider yourselves adjourned until i 130 this after- 

 noon. 



THURSDAY AFTERNOON SESSION. 



Meeting called to order at 2 o'clock by the President. 

 The Chairman : We will have an address by Hon. H. R. 

 Wright, State Dairy Commissioner. 



ADDRESS. 



HON. H. R. WRIGHT_, DES MOINES, lA. 



Mr. Chairman: The principal question nowadays before the dairy 

 people in this state is the conundrum, Shall we have fifty creameries 

 doing the business of the state or shall we have a thousand as we used 

 to have? The central creamery or the local? 



We used to discuss the hand separator question, but that is now a 

 closed matter, an established fact. Fifty per cent of our creamery 

 patrons are users of the hand separator, and more than fifty per cent 

 of our creamery butter is made from cream skimmed on the farm. And 

 already 25 creameries make more than one-fourth the butter of the state 

 and the question before nearly every creamery of the state is how to hold 

 their patronage. It is a condition and not a theory that confronts us 



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