PART VII. 
PROCEEDINGS 
OF THE 
Thirty-First Annual Convention of the 
Iowa State Dairy Association 
HELD AT WATERLOO, IOWA, 
December 18, 19, 20, 1908. 
OFFICERS. 
W. B. BARNEY, President Hampton 
L. S. EDWARDS, Vice President Parkershurg 
W. B. JOHNSON, Secretary Des Moines 
F. L. ODELL, Treasurer Des Moines 
The Iowa State Dairy Association met in its thirty-second annual 
convention at Waterloo, and was called to order Wednesday even- 
ing, November 18, 1908, at 8 o'clock, President W. B. Barney in 
the chair. 
The Chairman : We will now listen to the address of welcome 
by Mayor R. A. Doty. 
ADDRESS OF WELCOME. 
R. R. DOTY, MAYOR, WATERLOO, IOWA. 
M. President, Ladies, Gentlemen and Visiting Delegates: I think it 
has been the custom at meetings of this character that a representative of 
the city in which the convention is held should bid welcome to its guests. 
In this instance this duty has fallen to my lot, and I can't help but think 
of the Irish tug hand on board a ship. He was asked one time to dispose 
of a corpse that had appeared on board during the journey. It appears 
that the captain met Pat and he says: "We have a corpse on board, Pat, and 
I want you, after everything is quiet tonight, to take him out and bury 
