268 IOWA DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



SESSION OF THE NATIONAL DAIRY UNION. 

 Thursday Evening. Nov. 19, 1903. 

 Vice President S. B. Shillino- in the chair. 



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The Chairman : We have met this evening for the purpose 

 of discussing the affairs of the National Dairy Union. I do not 

 at Ihis time deem it necessary to tell you what the National Dairy 

 Ur:ion is, nor do I helieve it necessary to stand here and tell you 

 what it has accomplished and what it hopes to accomplish, or 

 for what objects the association was formed. 



I know that I speak advisedly to you when I say that it was 

 the earnest wish of the officers of the National Dairy Union, 

 when they met a year ago, to have the affairs of the organization 

 wound up at the end of the year if possible. They believed it 

 had lived its day of usefulness and hoped it would not be neces- 

 sary to maintain the association anv lono-er. 



It has been a discouraging fight, and since --I have become con- 

 nected with it my greatest wonder has been that the officers of 

 the association have not become wholly discouraged and aban- 

 doned it before this. The facts of the matter are that the exist- 

 ence of one of the largest industries in the United States today 

 h?s been threatened and is in as critical condition as it ever has 

 been, from the time that this fight commenced. 



A short time ago w-e lost the president of the association. Gov- 

 ernor Hoard. He felt that the duties connected with the office 

 were to much for him in connection with his other duties; and 

 I know it to be a fact that the secretary, ^[r. Knight, has felt 

 upon several occasions that were it not for the friends who have 

 stood by him so loyally that he did not feel he could sacrifice 

 their interests in anv wav, he. too, would have abandoned the 

 field. 



I have no desire, ladies and gentlemen, to paint the picture 

 any darker than it is; I have no desire to in any way misrepre- 

 sent the facts as they exist, but I do want to tell vou the condi- 

 tions that confront us todav. 



