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from $50 to $100. Most any dairyman, by an investment in a pure bred 
dairy sire, of $75 to $150, is ready to make a start and if he has twenty 
or more cows the increased value of his first crop of heifer calves will 
pay for their sire. 
The Iowa Dairy Cattle Improvement Association is doing a good work 
and are entitled to your hearty support. The National Dairy Show and 
National Buttermakers' Association are both working for the good of one 
common interest. To the National Dairy Union we are indebted for our 
oleo law. It should be remembered that it is only through organized 
effort that legislation for our own good can be brought about and that 
these associations are all helpful in times of need. 
Space will not permit the discussion of the matter of tuberculosis 
among our cattle to the extent I would like to. Our next legislature will 
undoubtedly be asked to give us a law compensating the owner to the 
amount of at least 60 per cent of his loss where cattle are condemned by 
the state. 
This plan in other states has been tried with the effect that in many 
instances the disease has been checked and the results are most satisfac- 
tory. No law should be enacted without giving this matter more than a 
usual amount of consideration. 
It is our opinion that if every animal that reacts as a result of the 
tuberculin test were slaughtered and every child were dead that has 
drunk the milk from these animals, there would be a great scarcity of 
beef, milk and children. Please do not understand that I mean to con- 
demn the test. There is no question but that it is the best means of 
determining the presence of disease in our herds that we have. 
The Bang system, as applied to valuable bred animals has many things 
that appeal to those that have given this plan due consideration. 
Whatever law is enacted should first be with reference to the absolute 
protection of public health and with due consideration for the owners 
of our cattle. New York, after having considered this matter for two or 
three years, has recently passed a law that we believe would fit well into 
the conditions in this state. 
For having made me your vice-president three years and your president 
for two years, I feel that I am under great obligations to the association; 
I am sure I have been honored almost beyond measure. It has been a 
great pleasure to me to go over the state and meet many of you in your 
places of business and your homes. Your counsel has been helpful. I 
want to thank you all for the earnest work you have done that has made 
possible the building up of an association second to none other of its kind 
in this country. In delivering the reins to my successor, I wish to thank 
you for the loyal support you and the executive committee have accorded 
me in my efforts to do my duty, as your servant according to the light that 
was in me. 
You have done much for the betterment of our interests; yet there 
should be no relaxation of effort on our part if we shall make Iowa what 
it should be— the greatest dairy state in the Union. I thank you. 
