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than any other concern. Two things are essential for the success of anj' 

 business — quality and quantity — and these are the important factors that 

 makers and directors must look after if they wish success. 



ADDRESS. 



MR. FRANK L. ODELL, ASSISTANT DAIRY COMMISSIONER. 



Mr. Chairman, Ladies and Gentlemen: We hope this thirty-first an- 

 nual convention will go down in history for being one of the best of 

 its kind ever held; to be remarkable for its exhibit of butter and cream- 

 ery supplies; remarkable for its educational features and record of at- 

 tendance; that each and every year these meetings may excel the 

 others; that peace, harmony and good will may abound; that it may 

 continue in that high class manner so that every buttermaker, creamery 

 man, supply man, commission merchant, transportation agent may look 

 forward to the coming events of the Iowa State Dairy Association to be 

 one of the crowning points in their lives. 



This is not an imaginary picture, but a real live issue, an issue that 

 has the heart and soul of the institution at stake. 



Do you know I feel just about as good as a fellow of my size is al- 

 lowed to feel? 



Just to think, we have tubs of butter on exhibition at this convention 

 Who says, "What's the matter with Iowa?" Who says, "What's the mat- 

 ter with Iowa buttermakers?" I say they are a great, loyal set of fellows 

 and they have expressed their loyalty by sending to this convention 

 tubs of butter, which has almost eclipsed any previous record of the 

 Iowa State Dairymen's Association. 



What would this convention be without the buttermakers? What 

 would this convention be without the little twenty-pound tub, the con- 

 tents of which is a "free gift" to the maintaining and sustaining of this 

 institution and represents from the giver the art and skill of his handi- 

 work. It also represents labor and toil, which goes to make up one of 

 the chief industries we have in this great state of ours. 



Do we appreciate these things? Do we appreciate the fact that the 

 buttermakers of Iowa have helped sustain this institution for thirty-one 

 years, and without the aid of one cent from the state? 



The legislatures in some of our sister states helps to sustain their 

 dairy associations, but Iowa has nothing of the kind. And in view of 

 these facts the Iowa State Dairymen's Association has a goodly sum of 

 money in their treasury, which partially represents the "loyalty" and 

 "generosity" from the buttermakers of Iowa. I say again, do we appreci- 

 ate these things? If we do let us show them that we do; let us cheer 

 them on to victory. Usually about all the praise mortal man gets here 

 below is when the last sad rites are being paid over his funeral casket, 

 but here today we have the living with us. If we are ever going to 

 pay them homage let us do it right now, here in this convention hall. 



Inspiration is the stepping-stone to success. If we are inspired with 

 uur work, nu matter in what vocation of life it happens to be, the chances 



