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The farmer knows that the dairy business is a sure thing; he knows 

 it brings cash into a community at a time when the farmer has nothing 

 else that will bring cash. He knows it is the best thing he can do when 

 he must do something to get money, and for that reason, and for the rea- 

 son of adaptability of the business to this section, it will continue for an 

 indefinite time and continue to increase, so that the fifty-seventh annual 

 convention of the Iowa Dairy Association, without a doubt, will be able 

 to report a very important increase over the present. 



If you will look at the map of Iowa, such a map as we prepare for 

 our annual report, you will notice that nearly all the butter is made in 

 this corner of the State, that the northwest quarter of the State makes 

 n-sarly half the total amount of butter produced in the State; but when 

 the rest of the State develops, as it will in the next ten or fifteen years, 

 the amount of butter Iowa will produce may be even greater than now in 

 proportion to the whole amount that is made. 



The PrESIdKnt : We will net detain ^ou mtich longer. We, 

 have jnst one more piece on the program. A tttle over a year 

 ago, Avhen Secretary of Agricnltiire A\'ilsoii was in the A\^est, 

 one of the leadino- dairvmen in the ccnntrv, in an interview with 

 liim, asked him why he did not come West to conventions any 

 more, and he replied, "It is my intenticn to visit Iowa at the next 

 dairy convention that }'on ha\'e, luit in case it is imp(;ssihle for 

 me to he there I will sen.d a representative." \Wth this we placed 

 nis name on the program, and while he has found it impossible 

 to be present himself, he has sent the Honorable Air. Lang who 

 will talk to you in place (;f Secretary A\'ilsori., 



REMARKS BY HON. MR. LANG. 



Mr. Chairman, Ladies and Gentlomen: If there is any place in the 

 ^vorld where a man should talk it ought to be in this town of Waterloo. 

 The very name is an inspiration. I have come here, as your chairman 

 has announced, as a representative of the agricultural department of 

 Washington. That department, as you all know, is presided over by a 

 man whom the nation honors and the State of Iowa justly loves. 



I have said that I was here as a representative of the department, al- 

 though that is hardly the fact. I have been operating and working in 

 Iowa and contiguous states for nearly a year and a half. I have not been 

 in Washington for about a year. As a matter of fact, I am only one third 

 of the representation of the department here tonight. We have Professor 

 Webster, who occupies a seat on the stand, and we have Mr. Collyer. the 

 handsome man of the trio, who occupies a seat somewhere in the audi- 

 ence. 



It is getting late and you are all anxious to hear the results of the 

 butter scored today, so I will thank you to excuse me and. if possible, 

 would like to hear from Professor Webster and Mr. Collver. Thank you. 



