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You can fully appreciate the difficulty of fixing such a price when you 

 enter into the fact that the cost of the production is changing so rapidly — 

 that a price fixed on a fair basis today is not at all adequate a few 

 months hence. And after this war, tlie dairy farm and dairy products 

 will be in greater demand and of greater impoi'tance than ever before 

 and it behooves us to stand unified at a time like this, joined with an 

 organization such as represented here in the National Dairy Council and 

 (State organizations and determine to render every service that can be 

 rendered. General Pershing went to the Statue of Lafayette and said, 

 "We are here Lafayette," and we ought to catch that spirit here through- 

 out this land and everyone say in our place "Lafayette we are here" and 

 with that spirit behind us to discharge our full duty and render the 

 highest service we can to -the state and the allied armies in pushing this 

 war to a successful conclusion. 



W. B. BARNEY. 



Mr. President, Mr. Toastmaster, Ladies and Gentlemen: 

 I want to say that it is quite gratifying for me to be here tonight and 

 I desire to say to begin with that it is gratifying because this is the first 

 result of a combination of the State Dairy Association and the State 

 Dairy Council. We organized a Dairy Council in Des Moines about four 

 or five months ago and I had the honor of being president of the Des 

 Moines Council. 



Now this question was asked. What effect would the State Dairy 

 Council have on the Iowa State Dairy Association? My answer was this — 

 that it would probably have about tlae same effect on the State Dairy 

 Association as the State Buttermakers' Association had had on the State 

 Dairy Association. It was thought at the time the buttermakers were 

 organized here in the state that it might lessen the influence and the 

 activities of the State Dairy Association but I don't think that it has. I 

 want to say that when the states have organized — and I am glad that 

 Colonel Munn is with us and explained to us what he expects to do 

 in the National Dairy Council. I want to say that the labor organizations 

 have shown what they can do in the condition of the laboring man and an 

 organization of this kind can do the same for the dairyman and farmer. 

 The dairyman or farmer knows very little about an eight-hour day. He is 

 thinking about how he may crowd two eight-hour days into one or about 

 sixteen hours. Now if they were organized, they would have some way 

 of speaking and getting to the lawmakers of our country and would get 

 their share in all that we are entitled to and I think this is just where the 

 dairymen have been lame. 



Now I am glad that there are so many loyal people here tonight, so 

 many loyal to the dairy interests and in speaking of loyalty I am reminded 

 of the Irishman who went over to the old country and after reaching there 

 soon made up his mind that he had made a mistake and had better stayed 

 in America. He decided to return and after several days sailing on the 

 ocean as they sailed into the harbor the Irishman and several others were 

 on deck. As they came into sight of the statue of Liberty, the Irishman 



