FIFTH ANNUAL YEAR BOOK — PART IV. 277 



NATIONAL DAIRY UNION MEETING. 



Friday Morning, February 3, 1905. 



President S. B. Shilling in the chair. 



Meeting called to order at 11 o'clock by the president. 



The President : I want to say to you that if the people of 

 the United States who are interested in the welfare of the 

 National Dairy Union were as economical with their money as 

 their presence at our meetings, we would quit. There is the 

 mystery, how they will contribute money to us and give us every- 

 thing we ask, and then leave it entirely to us as to how we spend 

 it, or what we do with it. I am not going to make any lengthy 

 address, because I promised at the hall if you gave us an hour 

 we would try and let you off in that time. I simply wish to make 

 a few statements and it does not seem necessary for me to even 

 do that. It seems to me that it must be known to everyone of 

 you that if we have ever seen the necessity of maintaining this 

 organization we have in the last three months. So far as my 

 work in connection with the National Dairy Union is concerned, 

 it has been a pleasure, as a rule. There are some things about 

 it, of course, which has been more or less disagreeable. I am 

 the person who does the begging. My duty is to provide the 

 funds to run the organization ; your secretary has invariably 

 taken charge of all the legislative business. He has been in 

 Washington in the interest of the organization, as most of you 

 know, and he has also looked entirely after the legal affairs of 

 the organization. 



Now it seems to me that simply a report of what has been 

 accomplished by the new oleomargarine law would be sufficient 

 to convince anybody of the benefits of the organization. It 

 seems to me that the prices we are receiving for butter this 

 winter should not be attributed to any other reason in the world 

 excepting the protection of butter by the law that the National 

 Dairy Union succeeded in passing and enforcing. I believe all 

 this should entitle the National Dairy Union to recognition, and 



