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makers ; it is from butter they contributed from their creameries 

 and I don't see how the association can vote this money to any 

 officer. I hope that this wave of eloquence that has just spread 

 over you by these two gentlemen has not carried you away, and 

 you will be your own calm selves and do what is best for the as- 

 sociation, and I do not think you can afford to raise the secre- 

 tary's salary. I thank you for your attention. 



Mr. Wentworth : Without calling directly for the financial 

 report of this association, I wish to make this point: It is the 

 buttermaker's money. It is the buttermakers who are voting 

 the salary to the best friend they have, and I submit, with all 

 due respect to Mr. Kieffer, that they have a perfect right to do 

 what they wish with their own. 



Mr. Knudsen: There is not a buttermaker in the State of 

 Iowa, I think, that does not appreciate what Mr. Kieffer has 

 done for us, and who is not willing to allow that advance. Just 

 try the buttermakers and I think you will find it out. 



The motion, having been duly made and seconded, was 

 unanimously carried that the secretary's salary be increased 

 from one hundred and fifty to three hundred dollars per year. 



Mr. Smith, of Michigan : 1 would like to say a word. I come 

 from the State of beautiful peninsulas, where no man is ever 

 handicapped by having a full pocketbook ; but I want to say 

 our State does not treat its State Dairy Association the way Iowa 

 does. We have a regular continuous appropriation ; they expect 

 to appropriate at least a thousand dollars, besides publishing 

 the reports of the State Dairy Association. I am astonished 

 that you have such a fund in your treasury. That fund comes 

 from contributions, and if this association is anything it is a 

 State Dairy Association and your legislature ought to take care 

 of it. 



The President : We have one paper on the program for this 

 forenoon "Starters and Cream Ripening" by W. S. Smarzo, 

 Assistant Dairy Commissioner. 



