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important a factor it ever becomes in tlie State, in the Mississippi Valley, in 

 the United States, in fact, in the world if you please, it was the State 

 Dairy Association of Iowa that organized it, started it, put it on its feet and 

 gave the opportunities for a Dairy Show in the Mississippi Valley. This 

 institution has grown steadily year after year until today I am confident 

 that the biggest day in the history of the Dairy Cattle Congress is finished. 

 I think there has never been a day when there was such an extremely large 

 attendance as today and there is one thing more that I would wish to call 

 your attention to in this connection. There has been a motto well defined 

 and we have adhered to this as closely as possible. Regardless of the fact 

 that it has meant a sacrifice of gate receipts, the Dairy Cattle Congress has 

 always been for the farmer and dairyman and their allied interests. Never 

 has the thought been uppermost of any Director of the Dairy Cattle Con- 

 gress that we should strive for more gate receipts regardless of the class 

 of people entertained and I am firmly of the belief that the real result of 

 the Dairy Cattle Congress accomplished has been namely the betterment of 

 dairying. 



Unless they choose the people who visit the show whenever any institu- 

 tion of this kind organizes for the purpose of advancing dairying and for 

 making certain permanent agriculture, overlooks the one vital point that 

 the Dairy Show is for the purpose of serving men who milk cows and serv- 

 ing men who serve men who serve cows than that institution is undoubt- 

 edly short lived. It means that the dairymen must get behind the institu- 

 tion themselves and it means the institution that is going to succeed will 

 serve the purpose for which it is organized. On this subject, I wish to leave 

 this one thought with you that the advancement of dairying should be 

 greater than ever before at this particular time; that dairymen, butter- 

 makers, the men who milk the cows, the men who serve this class of peo- 

 ple are gentlemen of the greatest industry in the world. The agricultural 

 class, which President Munn will tell you represents a wealth of $8,000,- 

 000,000.00 — that industry is great enough — that industry is wealthy enough 

 — that industry is made up of men who are. progressive enough — 

 men who are sufficiently interested in the industry of which they are a 

 part of so that they themselves should make their organizations, their in- 

 stitutions, if you please, whether they be a State Dairy Association, a Na- 

 tional Dairy Council, a State Dairy Show or a National Dairy Show, the 

 absolute success that it should be and I believe if there is any one thing 

 that we have accomplished with the State Dairy Council with the Dairy 

 Cattle Congress over and above all other factors it is that the tauttermak- 

 ers, the men who milk cows, the manufacturers of dairy equipment, in fact 

 everyone connected directly and indirectly in the dairy industry, have 

 lent their efforts for the progress and development which has come about. 



In introducing the next speaker, I would say this that there came a time 

 after the Dairy Cattle Congress had been organized and established when 

 it became important to us as to whether or not such an institution with 

 such large possibilities before it, should be shouldered by the dairy men 

 who are busy and who cannot often get away. It was at that time the 

 decision of the Iowa State Dairy Association that perhaps it would be bet- 

 ter to let somebody else carry the responsibilities of the Dairy Cattle Con- 

 gress. At that time the Dairy Show was sold to the city of Waterloo and 



