NINTH ANNUAL YEAR BOOK— PART VII 317 
President : Mr. Wright has a resolution of a little different char- 
acter. 
We, the dairymen of Iowa, respectfully ask our members of congress 
that the duties on dairy and farm products be maintained; that a copy 
of this resolution be forwarded by the secretary to our representatives 
and senators in congress. 
The breeders of dairy stock in Iowa unanimously request the Iowa 
State Board of Agriculture to furnish better facilities for showing dairy 
stock at the Iowa State Fair. They also urge that the superintendent 
of cattle for the fair put forth every effort to induce breeders of dairy 
cattle in Iowa and adjoining states to show their stock at this fair. We 
further respectfully request him to appoint an assistant superintendent to 
have charge of the dairy cattle exhibit and look after the best interests 
of the exhibitors in this class. 
President: With reference to that resolution I would say that 
the dairy cattle at the Iowa State Fair for some time have had to 
take what I call a back seat. I have exhibited at the Illinois State 
Fair for a number of years, and I well remember when Illinois had 
no better showing of dairy cattle than Iowa. About five years 
ago they appointed a dairy cattle superintendent, who made it 
his business to go among the breeders to get out a showing of dairy 
cattle. The consequences are that the dairy cattle showing in Illi- 
nois for the last three or four years has been equal to that of the 
beef breeds. Last year they had nine herds of Holsteins, eight 
or nine of Jerseys, seven or eight of Guernseys, four or five of 
Ayreshires, besides other dairy breed representatives. Conditions 
over there are much the same as they are in Iowa, and what we 
want is an effort along the same line — to get out a showing of dairy 
cattle. in Iowa, and Mr. Wright's resolution is to sort of waken 
our fair people to the fact that something should be done. 
Mr. Wright : ]\Ir. Barney has taken his cows there, and a good 
many others have done so, during the month of August and had to 
exhibit them under conditions already described by Mr. Odell, and 
until such time comes that the state of Iowa opens up her purse 
strings and gives them some money it will be worse each year. 
The hog men have down there the finest hog pavilion there is in 
the country, but there isn't a building do^vn there you would allow 
your cattle to remain in except one. Breeders go down there and 
the conditions under which they have to exhibit are rotten. 
Mr. Barney: Mr. Wright is correct in his statements. The 
dairymen don't propose to show their cattle up there in a hen 
house. 
The resolution as read was unanimously adopted. 
