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the words "One hundred and fifty" and substitute therein the 

 words "Two hundred and fifty", I will make that motion at the 

 present time. 



I have done this without consultation with anybody. There 

 is nobody in the hall or in the State that had any idea this was 

 to be done. I think we owe it to Mr. Kieffer; I think the asso- 

 ciation owes it to Mr. Kieffer as a mark of appreciation for the 

 work that he has done for them. 



Member: Make it three hundred instead of two hundred and 

 fifty dollars. 



Mr. Wentworth : That is a good idea, and I move that the 

 salary of the secretary of the Iowa State Dairy Association be 

 made three hundred dollars per year. 



Mr. Neitert: I wish to speak upon this matter. I will sec- 

 ond that motion in order to get it before the house. I am speak- 

 ing from the fact that many do not realize the work done by our 

 friend and secretary, Mr. Kieffer. While the State is not pov- 

 erty stricken, I must admit that a man who is worth so much 

 for your interests, who has refused higher salaries, who is a 

 public benefactor, is working for the State for the paltry sum 

 of $1,200 a year. 



Mr. Wentworth : We only managed to give him that this 

 year. He has only been drawing that since July. 



Mr. Neitert: It has been only by the great interest he has 

 taken in the dairy industry of your State that it has been pos- 

 sible for him to do this. As I take it, this amendment is not 

 offered only as paying for the labors he may perform for this 

 association. I know that in many instances in this State we 

 have men who could command higher salaries than the State 

 pays them in important positions here, men who are advancing 

 the agricultural interests of the State and marking out the path 

 which leads to the way of success, who are helped and assisted 

 by private contributions from benevolent citizens of the State 

 that we may retain those men as educators. I only bring this 

 up, and it mortifies me to have to say it, that our State is so 

 parsimonious that it will not pay our men the salaries they are 

 worth and could command in other places. I suppose this was 

 in the mind of our friend Wentworth when he advised the salary 

 of our secretary advanced, and I am pleased to know that our 

 association can easily give this increase in his salary. That 

 will help to retain him in the field for the work he has been ap- 



