374 IOWA DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



is going to be in evidence and the farmers of the state are going to give 

 more attention to tlie animals that will produce well, that will milk well. 

 Even those men that make beef production their business will not do that 

 entirely, and perhaps not go entirely to special dairy breed but will 

 develop dairy qualities of the stock they have, and others will make 

 dairying a specialty. 



So we are going to emphasize those qualities and we will get the high- 

 est returns in our agriculture. We have recognized the importance of 

 this work for sometime. As the gentlemen of this association know, 

 an appropriation was asked from the last legislature for the erection 

 of a dairy building and the purchase of a dairy farm. These appropria- 

 tions were granted, although not in full. They were rather severely 

 cut up. The dairy building has been practically completed, the farm has 

 been purchased, 200 acres of land near the college, and it is our intention 

 to stock this farm with various dairy breeds for combining the capacity 

 of producing beef and milk. We expect to make this one of the important 

 features of our dairy instruction. Thus far most of the attention in 

 the dairy schools and in the conventions has been given to the manufac- 

 turing side of the industry. This is entirely natural and of course it is 

 all right, but the other side lies at the foundation of this entire industry 

 and we feel that it is exceedingly important to conduct investigations 

 along that line, and we will be able to begin with the cow in conducting 

 investigations which we will carry along. This farm, consisting of 200 

 acres, wil be devoted exclusively to dairy stock and stock combining beet 

 and dairy qualities, the kind of stock used in this state principally for 

 the production of our dairy products, and instead of this state becoming 

 less in dairy industry, instead of being alarmed by the apparent indif- 

 ference in the dairy industry and decrease in the number of creameries, 

 I believe there is ample evidence today that the dairy industry in this 

 state is destined to occupy a higher place in Iowa agriculture than ever 

 before, and this state is destined to be one of the leading, if not the 

 leading state in the amount of dairy products it puts out. 



I believe the conditions which have made Iowa the great dairy state 

 are going to continue in a more intensified form and the conditions con- 

 fronting us today will necessitate a greater degree of attention being 

 given to the dairy industry. I think the outlook to the men engaged in 

 the business, both in manufacturing and producing was never more favor- 

 able and never offered better opportunities than at this time. I thank you. 



DISCUSSION. 



Mr .Wentworth : I would like to have Prof. Cnrtiss hold 

 up the picture of the type of cow that made 128 lbs. of butter. 

 While this address of Prof. Curtiss is firmly fixed in your mind, 



