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Vice-President Barney: I have listened with a good deal 

 of interest to our worthy president's remarks, and I have no 

 doubt that you all enjoyed them. He has touched on many 

 points that have been of interest to me, and I think they are of 

 great interest to all of you. 



We will now hear from Hon. H. R. Wright, Dairy Commis- 

 sioner. 



ADDRESS 



HON. H R. WRIGHT, STATE DAIRY COMMISSIONER, DES MOINES. 



Mr. Chairman , Ladies and Gentlemen — I appreciate the warmth of your 

 greeting,' but strict regard for truthfulness compels me to admit that my 

 feet are still cold. At this late hour, after the lengthy remarks we have 

 listened to, it appears to me that I might well take the advice of a man 

 thafMr. Cownie was telling about the other day. I heard him tell one time 

 of how they kept insane asylums and among other things he said they fur- 

 nished amusement to the patients, and on Sundays had a minister co-ne to 

 preach. One day the preacher had preached perhaps an hour and had 

 thoroughly tired out his audience; then he struck an attitude and said * 'what 

 more shall I say?" A fellow back In the audience rose up and said. ' 'don't 

 say another d n word." 



I reckon if I took that fellow's advice it would be just the right thing to 

 do, but it is not very often that I get a chance at the buttermakers except 

 one at a time, so if you will stand for it a little longer, I will talk a little 

 business. You know they put the dairy commissioner on every year just the 

 same as the secretary's report and the president's address, and all that sort 

 of thing; nobody expects to be entertained, or instructed, or pleased by 

 anything he says, so I propose to spend a few minutes tonight in mapping 

 out what the dairy department expects to do the coming year, and the 

 reason I have for doing so is that we want to enlist the help of everybody 

 interested in the business^ 



There are two or three things we hope to do, expect to carry out in some 

 degree at least, and one of the minor things is this: We get at the food 

 commissioner's ofhce a lot of inquiries for buttermakers, and a few butter- 

 makers write in and want us to find places for them. I might say that the 

 curious feature of that is that nobody wants a forty or fifty dollar butter- 

 maker; most everybody wants to pay good wages. So we have determined 

 this year to advertise to buttermakers and the employers of buttermakers 

 that we stand ready to put these two positions in communication with one 

 another, that buttermakers may find where vacancies are and creameries 

 may be put in communication with those wanting positions. That is one 

 thing we expect to do. 



Another thing to which we want to devote considerable attention is the 

 local meetings Mr. Shilling has mentioned, and I want to ask buttermakers 

 to assist us in arranging them. We know a lot of places that ought to be 

 assisted, but buttermakers demand, in most cases, that we must arrange 



