PART VI 



Excerpts From the Proceedings of the Forty-first Annual 

 Meeting of the Iowa State Dairy Association 



Immediately following the banquet of the Iowa State Dairy 

 Association and State Dairy Council in the Russell-Lamson Hotel 

 dining room, the meeting was called to order at eight o'clock by 

 Toastmaster Hugh G. Van Pelt. 



Ladies and Gentlemen, Members of the Iowa State Dairy Association, 

 State Daijy Council and Allied interests: 



I take great i)l83£ure in seeing as many present this evening at this one 

 session of the Iowa State Dairy Association as there are. I could not help 

 but, think as I was listening to the conversation around at these tables and 

 the pleasantries that have been going on of just how banquets seem as a 

 rule and just how I hope this banquet will not seem to you this evening. 

 To illustrate this I will tell a little story that was told last Monday even- 

 ing at the Rotary meeting regarding the Irishman, whose wife was very ill. 

 She called him into the room and said, "Pat, I am not going to live, I am 

 going to die and I have just one dying wish that I would ask. I have asked 

 for many things during my life that have not been granted but I wish you 

 would grant this one thing that I ask on my death bed." "Sure Biddy, and 

 I'll grant this one wish and what may it be?" "I wish", said Biddy, "That 

 on the day of my funeral you will ride in the funeral procession with my 

 mother." Pat wiped his eyes and said, "Biddy this is your dying wish and 

 sure enough I will do it but I want you to know that it will spoil the whole 

 day for me." 



But we have selected a number of men -who are going to speak to you 

 this evening and I am sure this evening is not going to be spoiled for you. 

 We have reached a period in history when dairying demands more atten- 

 tion than ever before. I am confident that for a period of ten years which 

 we are facing is going to present to you more problems, to you as dairymen, 

 than has ever before gone through in this country and we will all be called 

 upon to help in the great work. 



We are feeling mighty proud in Waterloo this evening and all the dairy- 

 men in the state of Iowa should feel proud this evening. Some eight or nine 

 years ago, the Draiy Show was conceived. We started out with merely a 

 little demonstration and I see many faces here this evening that were 

 present at Cedar Rapids when for the first time dairy cattle were connected 

 in any way with the present form of the Iowa State Dairy Association. The 

 next year the State Dairy Association held its show in Waterloo and there 

 is this thought that every member should carry with him this evening — 

 that regardless of how large the Dairy Cattle Congress ever grows, how 



