FIFTH ANNUAL YEAR BOOK — PART IV. 245 



The President: You people who know me best have un- 

 doubtedly noticed that inside of the last year my hair has turned 

 gray and I have also grown more bald. That all comes from 

 being down in St. Louis last summer and undertaking to follow 

 a man from Minnesota. For some reason or other Minnesota 

 was getting away with everything and there was a great deal of 

 speculation among a lot of us as to why it was they were doing 

 this, and we did not know but possibly there was a little of politics 

 being worked. They sent me out to watch that man, and I 

 never did a poorer job, for I nearly lost the chap. I could not 

 keep track of him; I even went so far one day as to have chalk 

 put on his boots, and he changed boots on me. That man has 

 probably made Iowa more trouble than any man in this conven- 

 tion, or who ever will be here. He is here this afternoon, and 

 if possible I wish the audience would get even with him. I will 

 not mention his name, but I have the pleasure of introducing to 

 you Mr. Trow, from Minnesota. 



VALUE OF SILO. 



A, W. TROW, PRESIDENT MINNESOTA STATE DAIRY ASSOCIATION. 



Mr. President— ^hen I was appointed to look after the butter sent to 

 St. Louis from Minnesota, I went there with a good deal of fear. The result 

 of the first contest, of course, you know about. I was very jubilant, but I had 

 not counted fully with my antagonists, and the next result was that Iowa was 

 closer to Minnesota; the third result was that Iowa was a little ahead of Min- 

 nesota, and I went home and told our folks that I was awful glad there was 

 only one month more; and I told them the truth, and meant every word of 

 it, too,— I told them if they kept that man Shilling hanging around, and kept 

 that man Kieffer and that man Smarzo all the time, and especially got two 

 or three more good men in the field Minnesota will have to take second place. 



I believe that is the truth and I believe all Iowa needs is a little more ag- 

 itation, a little more thought along this line, a little more to bolster up the 

 ambition of the buttermakers. The fact is, the more I am associated with 

 the buttermakers, as I have been the last few years, the more I believe they 

 need more encouragement, and not so much inspection. Something to get 

 them agitated, something to wake them up, as Sam Haugdahl says "to 

 get them alive". 



You know the first thing that every manufacturer considers, I don't care 

 what he manufactures, is the cheapness of the raw material. You can talk 

 about good butter and increasing the output of the creameries, but we have 

 to go to the farmers for the milk, and they are not going to get interested 



