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interested would understand the straits we are in at this time, mail a 

 copy to and ask every member of the Iowa State Dairymen's Association 

 to contribute one dollar; then go over and ask the creamery butter-mak- 

 ers in the union to contribute one dollar. I do not know the number of 

 butter-makers, but the number is large enough so as to bring in quite 

 a sum. Then ask each creamery, both individual and co-operative, to 

 contribute at least $5, or as much as a good, bright butter-maker can 

 induce them to give up. Then go over and ask every patron to do as 

 much as he can. 



I think in this way fiiend Knight will have enough interested in it 

 so he will not feel like quitting. 



I do not know but what this can be gotten at in an easy way and I 

 shall be glad to contril)ute $10 to start this. I think more wiJl do the 

 same thing. I thank you. 



DBWITT GOODRICH. 



When Mr. Knight originated the scheme of the Patrons' Handbook, 

 he got up a grand scheme and this has not been entirely exhausted yet. 

 If the creamerymen, even the small number that is here tonight, will go 

 home and take a new hold of the Creamery Patrons' Handbooks, I think 

 a great deal more can be gotten out of it. 



A. B. SLAUCxHTER. 



I do not want to take much time, because I realize that it is late, but 

 the last suggestion by the last speaker touches me. Possibly I have 

 done as much as the average butter-maker in getting rid of Patrons' 

 Handbooks. I do not remember now just how many, but it is close 

 on to one hundred that I managed to get rid of, and I believe that if you 

 could get the butter-makers to wake up to that fact, and get them to take 

 hold of this matter, there would be no difficulty in getting rid of the 

 books. The books sell themselves; there is not a l)it of difficulty in sell, 

 ing them. 



Now just one or two other thoughts, then I am through. I was in 

 the State of Ohio, a member of the legislative committee of the Ohio 

 Dairy Association, when this suit was brought, and I was delegated to 

 wait upon the district attorney and find out the status of the case, and 

 did so and reported it to Mr. Knight. Now, without reflecting at all upon 

 the Government att'orneys, I want to say that the man who now has 

 charge of the case is not the attorney who instituted the proceedings. 

 The gentleman who instituted it is dead, I believe, and his assistant has 

 been appointed in his place. He is a nice young man, but he knows as 

 little about the wiles of the oleomargarine people as we do about the 

 world beyond. He does not know them at all. because I had a conver- 

 sation with him of some two hours, and I found he did not know anything 

 at all about it. 



