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]\Ir. Keiffer is well known to all of you and should receive 

 due recognition of his work. I am pleased to know that the 

 other menihers of the executi\'e committee have recognized so 

 worthy a fellow co-worker for the State of Iowa, and I hope 

 and trust he will have the warm support of all of our members. 

 Knowing him, as 1 do, to be intelligent, diligent, pushing and 

 faithful in the cause of good butter; knowing him to lie honest 

 r:nd capable of filling this position to the fullest, it gives me great 

 pleasure to make this announcement, as the other members of 

 the committee have so kindly suggested his name. I know it 

 must be pleasing to every one of the members oi the Iowa State 

 Dairy Association and all the people of his acciuaintance, and I 

 can not think of any man in wdiose hands I would rather place 

 this trust than in those of our present secretary, ^^Ir. Keiffer. 



The President : I know I voice the sentiment (jf the mem- 

 bers of the Iowa State Dairymen's Association when I say I 

 appreciate the honor, and it is an honor, of having a man ap- 

 pointed from our State as a member of the National Butter- 

 Makers' Association. It has done lots of good and I wish at 

 this time to urge the butter-makers to give their support as here- 

 tofore. It has opened up the educational features of a six 

 months' contest and I hope it will receive your support. I know 

 I voice the sentiment of the entire delegation when I say it is 

 an honor for the State and I thank you for it. 



REMARKS BY MR. KIEFFER. 



Mr. President. Members of the National Butter-Makers' Asscoiation 

 and Executive Committee: I very much appreciate what you have 

 done for me and I will accept the offer that you have made me and 

 thank you for it. I will do the best I can in this matter, but at this 

 time I want to make a plea to our butter-makers in this State. Thoy 

 have responded heartily to this conve9tion with their butter; they have 

 sent to this convention, as I understand it, the largest number of tubs 

 of butter that has ever come to an Iowa State conventions of iowa butter 

 for a long time. They have responded nobly and I again appeal to 

 them to do the same if the national test is held; and I assure them, eo 

 far as I am concerned, the treatment will be alike in all states, and 1 

 belieA^e so far as the executive committee and your judges are con- 

 cerned that the treatment will be alike. I am assured of that and I 

 beg for your hearty support in this matter. 



Thank you for what you have done. 



