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high as we thought it would; do not be discouraged; try again and pos- 

 sibly we may stand higher next time. I thank you. 



The Chairman : If there are no questions we will pass on to the 

 next on our program, which will be an address by Mr. N. H. Trim- 

 ble, of Alden. 



ADDRESS. 



N. H. TRIMBLE, ALDEN, IOWA. 



Mr. Chairman, Ladies and Gentlemen: — If they had allowed me to 

 make my speech or address before Mr. Ross I might have been able 

 to say something. Mr. Ross told you a good deal about what a butter- 

 maker should do. He said when the secretary asked him to make an ad- 

 dress on the management of a co-operative creamery he was going to 

 decline. Well, the secretary did not use me that way; I did not know 

 that I was going to speak until I read it in the Marshalltown Times- 

 Republican; saw my name there for an address on the manufacture of 

 butter from the manufacturers' standpoint. I suppose because I was so 

 well acquainted with President Barney, Secretary Johnson and Brown 

 the treasurer they knew that Trimble was pretty good natured. Presi- 

 dent Barney and Mr. Brown were down at a picnic we had in June and 

 we gave them a good time, as we always try to do down there, and if 

 they comei back we will give them another good time and we are capable 

 of doing it in Alden. 



We have a little creamery up there doing a small business on the co- 

 operative plan. I have been buttermaker there for almost seven years 

 and my wife says I am going to stay there for seven years more. The 

 manager is here and I suppose he has something to say about that, but 

 I am going to say a few things on the manufacture of butter from the 

 manufacturer's standpoint. 



Those of us who were fortunate enough a year ago to hear Mr. 

 Wright's speech at Cedar Rapids heard him use such an expression as 

 this: "Of all there is good Iowa affords the best, of all there is best 

 Iowa produces the most," and there is one thing we can say, we have 

 one of the best dairy commissioners, if not the best, in the United 

 States. He did not exaggerate any when he said that we produce good 

 dairy commissioners. Then we have a dairy school that in my opinion 

 is the best in the United States. I am very much interested in the 

 school at Ames. I have been there for only a short course 

 myself, but during that course I learned a good deal about mak- 

 ing butter, and there is no excuse for any buttermaker in the state of 

 Iowa to plead ignorance or, as Professor McKay said last night, to be 

 twenty years behind the times, and he seemed to blame the buttermaker 

 for all that. In a creamery managed in the way suggested by Mr. Ross 

 a buttermaker would have no excuse for poor goods for he would have a 

 manager who would give him the machinery necessary to run it; he 

 would have all the modern equipments for making butter. I know of 

 creameries that claim to be too poor to get up to date machinery and 



