NINTH ANNUAL YEAR BOOK— PART VII 267 
lie could not serve us further in this capacity, I have the pleasure of 
nominating Mr. F. L. Odell, of Des Moines, for Treasurer of our 
association for the coming year. 
On motion, duly seconded, the rules were suspended and the Sec- 
retary instructed to cast a unanimous ballot for Mr. Odell as 
Treasurer. 
Chairman: That concludes the election. The next will be an 
address by F. L. Odell, of Des Moines. 
ADDRESS. 
F. L. ODELL, ASST. FOOD AND DAIRY COMMISSIONER, DES MOINES, IOWA. 
Mr. Chairman, Ladies, Gentlemen and Fellow Buttermakers : 
It is human nature and a natural instinct given to man by the all 
Supreme Being, to regard his home and state as the one, and only one, 
for which to build his hopes and display his energies. This being true, 
we, the sons of Iowa, look upon our state with noble pride, and our loyalty 
is far reaching that our moral, intellectual and industrial standards may 
equal or excell that of any other state in the Union. Not that we want 
to boast or brag, but we want to be high up in the standard of excellence, 
counted among the thrifty, prosperous people of our land. 
The home ties in our creamery industry, then, naturally exerts them- 
selves to be in the front rank. Who is there among us not in conjunc- 
tion with this kind of spirit, especially those that are toilers and workers 
in any good cause, in any business, commercially or intellectually. * We 
should stand for what we think is right and just, for anything that will 
build up and advance the interests of all concerned. 
A little review of this character and kind is in touch with the subject 
I wish to present — that we, as toilers and workers in the creamery bus- 
iness, will in the future, as we have in the past, work for the advance 
ment and betterment of the industry. It is true there are many things 
that would advance the creamery business in Iowa that we have not done, 
and many things we would like to do but can not for the reason that we 
have not the laws to back us. I would like to see a law rigid enough to 
compel every producer and every one that sells milk and cream, whether it 
is used in the manufacture of butter, household or culinary purposes, to 
deliver it in a sweet, sanitary condition, clean and wholesome, free from 
foreign and decomposed germs, excellent in quality and void of all bad 
flavors. 
This is where I stand on this subject, and whether it can be so or not 
I wish it could. But one thing I am sure of, there can be a marked 
improvement in the quality and kind of raw material that is being sold 
from one end of the state to the other — that is being sold for the manu- 
facture of butter, and again I say there can be a marked improvement in 
this material, and, plainly speaking, without hesitating or stammerings, 
let us have it. 
The subject I am going to take up seems to be of vital importance. 
So much that it has worried many a buttermaker, caused him no amount 
