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suggest this plan for the consideration of creamery managers and butter- 
makers. 
I think few are ignorant of the fact that personally I believe that co- 
operative creamery management makes for best results to the producer 
and to the consumer. In order that dairying in Iowa may not come to 
mean what it now means in Kansas and Nebraska and the west I hope 
that the weaknesses of co-operative plans may be strengthened and that 
fair competition may be compelled by statute. No one system of cream- 
ery operation is likely to be equally adapted to all conditions and situa- 
tions and the demand for prohibition of discriminations is in the legiti- 
mate interest of every creamery of the state, no matter what its methods 
of organization and operation may be, and is in the interest of both the 
producer and the consumer, 
I know that such reforms will come only by great effort on the part 
of somebody, but we have the single choice of making the effort or of giv- 
ing up to present tendencies in creamery operation. It takes brains to 
co-operate in the creamery and dairy business. It takes brains to meet 
present difficult conditions and to overcome them. It is going to take 
brains and a lot of hard work to save the creamery and dairy business 
from complete centralization and monopoly. It is the duty and a respon- 
sibility that falls largely upon the members of this association, and I 
know that its membership has both the brains and the energy to make 
the future in Iowa what we know it ought to be, so that Iowa in the 
future as in the past shall be known as the state where the dairy farmers 
receive more for their product than those of any other state and where 
the butter produced is of the highest quality and the value of the state's 
product ranks second to none. I thank you. 
Chairman: If there is no other business to come before us at 
this time we will stand adjourned until 10 o'clock tomorrow morn- 
ing. 
THURSDAY MORNING, 10 :45. 
Chairman : The first thing this morning will be the election of 
officers. The present officers hold office until the first of January. 
The first Avill be the election of President and nominations are now 
in order. 
^Ir. Shoemaker, Waterloo : I do not think it is at all necessary 
that I should make a nomination speech in placing the candidate I 
have in mind. When I say that he is a worker that is endorsement 
enough. I have in mind none other than our present President. 
His past records speak for themselves. I think you will all agree 
with me that during his administration interest has increased in the 
manufacturing end and also that it has increased very materially 
in the production end. He has been instrumental, as no other 
President has, in interesting the dairymen themselves in the work 
