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and we turned back $750 into the State treasury. Mr. Kiefifer told me before 

 I got up here not to tell that, that he was ashamed of it, but we did. 



We next came before the legislature and asked for an appropriation of 

 $4,000, for the purpose of getting another inspector for the State. Here is 

 where I wish to say to you that that is how we came to be in the position 

 with regard to point of excellence as compared to Minnesota. Minnesota 

 has twelve inspectors, and how they have educated their legislators up to 

 the point of giving them that number I don't know. We have been trying to 

 for the last five years, and how Minnesota got their legislature to be as lib- 

 eral as they did, is something we can not understand. They have twelve 

 inspectors in the State of Minnesota with a smaller dairy industry than we 

 have, and up to the first of July we had only one. 



We went before the legislature and asked for an appropriation for secur- 

 ing another inspector and were successful in that. The matter was taken up 

 by Representative Flenniken and Senator Newberry, who got the bill 

 through, and the first of July last the second inspector commenced work. 



Mr. Slater, of Minnesota : You should have asked for forty 

 thousand instead of four thousand. 



We next went before the legislature and asked for an appropriation for a 

 new dairy school at Ames. Uur building there had become so old that it 

 was really a disgrace to the great State of Iowa, and especially to the great 

 dairy industry of the State. We asked for $75,000; we were not bashful in 

 the amount we asked for, but we succeeded in getting an appropriation of 

 $45,000. We also realized that we are simply, so far as the experimental 

 work at Ames is concerned, simpl}' skimming the surface, — that is we 

 know next to nothing of scientific milk production. At the same time 

 that we asked $75,000 for a building, we also asked for money sufficient to 

 buy and equip a dairy farm. The entire amount we asked for, I believe, 

 was about $125,000. 



I want to say to you that I am glad of an opportunity to do honor and jus- 

 tice to your representative and senator from Cerro Gordo county, Hon, Mr. 

 Gale and Mr. Stanbery, who so valuably assisted the dairymen, not 

 simply as votes in the ranks but as leaders, and I wish to say that I believe 

 the dairymen of Iowa owe as much to Senator Gale as to any man in the legis- 

 lature, with but one exception. We owe it to him because he was the fore- 

 most in the fight from the beginning. 



We succeeded in getting the appropriation for the dairy farm; we got 

 $22,000 and $7,000 allowed for its equipment, and we succeeded during the 

 entire year in securing an appropriation to the dairy industry of $140,000, 

 and this explains to you why we did not ask for any money for the State 

 Dairy Association. The fact is we had been there so often that we took the 

 advice of our friends and staid away, not but what we felt that we needed 

 this, we feel that we are justly entitled to it, but we also felt that if we asked 

 for anything nearly what we should have we would have been turned down, 

 and, as the other things were so much more important, we concluded we 

 would stay out and not ask for an appropriation for the State Dairy Asso- 

 ciation until the legislature got together again. And, while I am on the 

 subject I wish to say that I want to impress upon you the necessity and im- 

 portance of securing this at the next session of our legislature. Things 



