NINETEENTH ANNUAL YEAR BOOK— PART VI 365 



adult and in Belgium it is absolutely impossible. In Italy, milk is to be 

 saved for the children and in England has been able only to retain for it- 

 self milk and dairy products sufficient for its children. I will not refer 

 to figures which shows such horrible conditions so far as child welfare 

 and life is concerned in those countries outside of England. They are 

 available. 



Coming to conditions here in our country where we have 23,000,000 dairy 

 cows, we produced last year, according to the best available figures, 

 in round numbers, 90,000,000,000 pounds of milk in this country or to re- 

 duce this to more understandable form about 45,000,000,000 quarts of milk, 

 not enough milk that every man, woman and child in this country should 

 have for healthful purposes. Not a quarter enough to have gone around. 

 Of this volume of milk we ai'e using 42 per cent of it in the making of 

 butter and about the same amount is used as whole milk. That is, con- 

 sumed as fluid milk, leaving a rather small percentage of cheese, con- 

 densed milk, butter and ice cream. 



We are confronted now with two radical dangers in this industry and 

 when I say radical, I express it rather mildly. One is that owing to the 

 extreme demand in the foreign countries for this product, we will not be 

 able to supply it even by going so far as to decrease consumption in this 

 country and the other is that labor and feed conditions have brought 

 upon us, by reason of our effort to stand by the idealisms of our fore- 

 fathers and see that they are not destroyed. We must protect the pro- 

 duction in this country. We have two very serious obligations on us to- 

 day. One which lies in our power is to see that the requested amount 

 of these products are available, not ordinarily for our own use but for 

 people around us so children may survive and take the places of the men 

 w:ho are now giving their lives. We owe it to ourselves in this country 

 to see also that this industry prospers, that it grows and grows, that we 

 may have, as we are going to be called upon most certainly as the war 

 progress, that we may have these products in order that we may replace 

 the lost man power and woman power that is going to result from this 

 war in this country, that we may have men and women in the future to 

 sustain this great nation that is going to be the greatest nation pro- 

 tecting and conserving human lives and liberties the world has ever 

 known. That this may be done, we must have these products from the 

 dairy cow in order that we may have the young men to accomplish 

 these things. 



When we look at this aspect of this industry, is it at all surprising that 

 men have become serious, is it at all surprising that we have gatherings 

 of this kind and right here I want to congratulate the people of the state 

 of Iowa, especially those engaged in the dairy industry, the people of 

 the city of Waterloo and those who are conserving and directing this 

 great dairy exposition now going on here, because you are engaged in 

 a splendid work. I am proud to say that I live in a state that borders on 

 Iowa. I don't know as I can pay a greater tribute to the state than 

 that. Iowa is a* marvelous state, a marvelous state. The possibilities 

 of your agriculture, the possibilities of your industries cannot be pictured 

 in words, nor can they be measured in thought. I wish I could give you 

 in concise form the marvelous possibilities of the resources which He 



