234 IOWA DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. ' 



Mr. Wentworth: I want to talk starter just a minute. 

 Professor Smith has discussed Michigan starters and what the 

 Michigan legislature has done for the dairy association of that 

 State. I want to ask every buttermaker and every man here 

 who is in anyway connected with the dairy industry, when he 

 goes home to work up a starter. We want a homemade starter. 

 Get after your member of the Senate and member of the House 

 and see when Mr. Shilling and your officers go before the legis- 

 lature the coming year that they meet with a more kindly and 

 more generous response on the part of the legislature of our 

 State. We have a legislative committee, of which I have been 

 a member for three years, and I want to say that the boys have 

 responded wonderfully whenever we have asked them to do any- 

 thing; but we can not go before the legislature with a two, three 

 or four weeks' campaign only and get results. We must begin 

 before your member goes, because there are a thousand and 

 one things that will take his attention after he gets there. When 

 you go home this time you bear in mind what Mr. Smith has 

 said about starters and see that the Iowa kind is about three 

 times as strong. 



The meeting then adjourned until 1:30 P. M. 



THURSDAY AFTERNOON SESSION. 



Meeting called to order at 1:30 p. m. by President Shilling. 



The President : The Iowa State Dairy Association seems to 

 be up against a pretty hard proposition, the elements are against 

 us. Last night I had to make excuses for the railroads from the 

 fact that they had delayed one of our speakers, and today I am 

 before you with the same kind of proposition. We have just 

 received word that Professor Curtiss' train was delayed and he 

 had missed connections, so we don't know whether he is going 

 to get here this afternoon or not . We are fortunate, however, 

 in having some good timber to substitute and they have kindly 

 consented to take a few minutes of the time that was to have 

 been occupied by Professor Curtiss. Professor Bouske will 

 first talk to you a few minutes on the care of milk on the farm. 



