222 IOWA DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



REMARKS BY PROFESSOR WEBSTER. 



Mr. Chairman, Members of the Iowa Dairymen's Association and 

 Friends: I must say I am very glad to be in Iowa again. Some of my 

 happiest days have been spent in the borders of this State, although 

 I am not a native of Iowa, but I have a very warm spot in my heart for 

 the Iowa butter-makers and the Iowa dairy interests . 



You have spoken a little this evening of the Iowa dairy products, 

 and while some of you were lauding butter and cheese and various other 

 things I thought of another product of Iowa in dairy lines which was 

 not mentioned, but I want to mention it now. I have been traveling 

 for the last three months over the western country and as I have gone 

 into different states I have become acquainted there with the men who 

 were leading in the dairy work, who had charge perhaps of dairy school 

 work, and some of the butter-makers in the states in which I have vis- 

 ited. As I crossed the plains of Kansas I found a good many of the 

 Iowa products in the waj' of Iowa men who learned dairying in this 

 State and who are now on the plains of Kansas promulgating the truths 

 of dairying there as they learned them here. In fact. Kansas has sent 

 a good many men to Iowa to get educated along dairy lines. And as 

 we pass to Colorado, where you think of nothing but gold and silver 

 as you think of that State. I find there an Iowa boy, one who got his 

 early education and whose early life was spent in this State, and there 

 he was showing these people that there was something besides gold and 

 silver in their hills. You can come back across Nebraska and you will 

 find in this state, a great dairy state now, a young man who gained his 

 early education in Minnesota, but we had to come to Iowa to finish 

 up. And then you can go to the State south of us, where we have to 

 show people, and you will find there one of the finest men that Iowa 

 has ever turned out in dairy lines leading those people on to better 

 things in dairying. 



I want to say to you that the butter and cheese you are turning out 

 on the prairies of Iowa are not the only dairy products of the State, 

 but you are sending out these men all over the country who are raising 

 the name of Iowa and placing you well to the front as a dairy State 

 from every standpoint, and I want to say that the people are coming to 

 Iowa to learn more about dairying. 



When Mr. Shilling was making his remarks about the needs of Iowa 

 along dairy lines, it impressed me as to what Iowa should do in an edu- 

 cational line, in putting men into the field to go to the creamery and 

 train the butter-makers in the better development of their business. I 

 hope Iowa will not continue to send all of these men away from the 

 State, but you can, as has been suggested, bring your legislature to a 

 point where they will keep these men at home and produce better results 

 right here, rather than sending them abroad. So far this has been all 

 good and well, but keep some at home and advance the dairy interests 

 of this State, as they may be advanced, although it is now one of the 

 leading dairy states of the Union. 



I am glad Iowa is turning out this class of Iowa products, and it is 

 through our dairy schools of various states of the Union, and though 



