FIFTH ANNUAL YEAR BOOK — PART IV. ZZ 



ending Mr. Brown's nomination; and I also desire to move that 

 the nominations be closed and the secretary cast the ballot of 

 the association for Mr. Brown. 



The secretary having cast the ballot of the convention Mr. 

 Brown was declared elected treasurer of the Iowa State Dairy 

 Association for the ensuing year. 



Mr. Brown : Mr. President, Ladies and Gentlemen — I feel 

 a great deal like my friend Keiffer did. But I want to say that 

 my friend Wentworth, who seconded my nomination, never got 

 any of the "Cremo" brand, but if he did happen to, he gave 

 them to the shippers. He did not smoke them himself. 



I want to thank the convention for the honor bestowed upon 

 me and I want to say that if I can serve you as well as our 

 friend Leighton has, I will be perfectly satisfied and I know that 

 you will. Thank you. 



Mr. Wentworth : Mr. President, I would like to have the 

 by-laws as relating to the salary of the secretary read. I would 

 say in explanation of that, that Mr. Kieffer and Mr. Shilling, 

 Mr. Kieffer in particular, has done more for the dairy industry 

 of the State of Iowa than any man that has ever occupied that 

 office, and that without disparagement to any of his valued pre- 

 decessors. 



The State of Iowa, as Mr. Shilling and myself very well know, 

 is somewhat poverty stricken. I spent twenty -nine days as 

 chairman of the legislative committee of Iowa within the past 

 two years, in an effort to get some recognition for this associa- 

 tion. We succeeded in getting a little better appropriation and 

 a little better recognition of the work at the college, but we were 

 unable to get anything for the direct interests of the association. 



Mr. Kieffer has worked long, faithfully and well for your in- 

 terests. We can not get from the legislature before another 

 year anywhere near a sufficient salary to fairly recompense him 

 for the work he has done. You, gentlemen, are the ones -most 

 directly interested in the work Mr. Kieffer does, and I think one 

 hundred and fifty dollars' salary which you have been paying 

 him is altogether to small. If Iowa is in a bad condition finan- 

 cially it is a pleasure for you to know that this association is 

 not, and, if there is nothing in the by-laws in connection with 

 this that would forbid our introducing the motion to strike out 



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