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^vade the law ; we know they have the best chemists that money 

 -can hire, and I beheve, unless some unforeseen circumstances 

 arise, that in the end they may be successful in this. 



I am giving- you these conditions just as they exist for this 

 reason, — I want to show you the necessity of our not letting the 

 organization of the National Dairy Union die. I am trying to 

 put the matter before you, the facts indeed, just as they exist 

 today. Not that I wish to exaggerate or in any way to unneces- 

 sarily alarm 3^ou, but I consider the most critical question before 

 the dairy people of the United States today is the maintenance 

 of some organization that will protect them. There is not a 

 JAisiness today of one half the magnitude of the dairy business 

 l3ut has its organization, and the conditions are such today that 

 I would regard it as a calamity (as I think you would) if we 

 did not have some organiation to look after and perpetuate the 

 •dairy interests. 



Now, I do not wish to take too much of your time just now, 

 but probably will have an opportunity to talk before }'0U again. 

 I want to say to you that the secretary of the organization, the 

 man w^ho has been at the butt end of the gun from the inception 

 of this fight, is with us tonight : he is here prepared to make a 

 report to you of what has transpired in the past year, and I will 

 leave the question now and call upon him for his report. 



I have the pleasure of introducing to you Mr. Charles Y. 

 Knight. 



SECRETARY AND TREASURER'S REPORT FOR YEAR ENDING 

 NOVEMBER 1, 1903. 



Charles Y. Knight, Chicago. 



Ladies and Gentlemen, Members of the Iowa Dairymen's Associa- 

 tion and Guests of the National Dairy Union: I am here this evening-, 

 not to entertain you, but to give y<ou a little idea of the business that 

 has been transacted by the National Dairy Union' during the past year, 

 because the National Dairy Union has in the past twelve months been 

 compelled to go into business, as it were in order to keep alive. Bui 

 before giving you any report or any insight of the workings of the 

 organization itself during the year just ended. I desire briefly to cover 

 the ground of the effects of the work of the organization during the 

 past five years. 



